Gun violence is particularly threatening towards women. Women around the world are the greatest risk of gun violence, not only on the streets, but also in their own homes. A firearm in a home with domestic violence issues can transform an argument into homicide in a fraction of a second. Firearms and domestic violence are a lethal combination, injuring and killing women bystanders every day in the United States. Guns are the weapons of choice in domestic violence, and, when a woman is killed in her home, her partner or a male relative is most likely to be the murderer. Lane argues in his book Gun Control, “93% of female victims were murdered by a male they knew. Among female murder victims who knew their killers, 61% were wives or intimate
