Death toll mounts as lawmakers debate domestic violence reform [View all]

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150425/PC16/150429588/1177/death-toll-mounts-as-lawmakers-debate-domestic-violence-reform

At least 30 people have died in South Carolina at the hands of present or former lovers in the eight months since lawmakers pledged to pass reforms to curb the state’s deadly toll from domestic violence.
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In all, at least 18 women and 12 men have been murdered in domestic disputes since late August, when state House and Senate leaders vowed to take action on the problem. Those vows came in the wake of The Post and Courier’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series “Till Death Do Us Part,” which revealed that more than 300 women had died in South Carolina over the past decade while state leaders did little to stem the tide of abuse.

Thirty deaths while the bill is held up over whether a domestic abuser can have a gun. How fucking stupid and cowardly can some legislators be?

It takes a special kind of sick bastard to want convicted wife beaters to have access to guns.