YubaNet.com, July 2, 2010 by California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
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Nancy Lemon … said that abusers will frequently use the presence and threat of firearms as a means of coercing and controlling their victims. “Battered women are not only shot daily by batterers, they are terrorized by their batterers’ possession of guns,” she said. “They are often forced to submit to nonconsensual sex or other abuse because they are afraid the batterer might shoot them or the children. Victims and their children are much less safe in their homes once a firearm is present.”