My husband’s mother shot her husband while he slept when my husband was 13, he was a horribly abusive man and beat her and their children almost daily. Right before he took his nap he announced he was going to kill the entire family. Thank God they lived in a small town where everyone kind of knew the situation, she…

Yeah, that’s what makes me really sick, that a woman just wants to fuck with Marissa Alexander for some reason I can’t fathom. I mean, if you want to play the “tough on crime” card, a woman who had given birth less than two weeks earlier and just wanted to scare off her husband is not the person you aggressively go…

I think it is great the woman shot him while he slept. She’s alive. That bit about the woman’s shelter is funny. Good job. Because the first time she goes to church, or to the school where the kids are, or to her bank, or any place he knows is familiar and probably unavoidable for her, then he follows her from there…

When a person attempts to go through the system and does everything “right” in terms of their safety and the police who are supposed to enforce the laws choose not to, then what would be the next step? If a cop lets a drunk driver go instead of arresting that person and ends up getting into an accident that same…

Unfortunately, fascism is not gender specific.

David Johnson previously worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office as a full-time deputy from July 1997 to May 2003 .

It also fails to take into account that black and Latina women are far more likely to be charged with murder, manslaughter or other crimes when killing an abuser, according to the Michigan Women’s Justice and Clemency Project.

I hate a case last year where my client’s abuser came to her house four separate times and was still there when the police showed up. They never arrested him.

This is what kills me. When women try to get police help against domestic abusers, they’re told there’s nothing the police can do until he actively tries to murder them. When they shoot or kill their abusers in self defense, police arrest them for murder or attempted murder. And when their abusers kill them, the…

I was going to comment the same thing... haven’t women been jailed for life for fighting back?

“He was cautioned for trespassing — but not arrested — when he showed up at Monica’s house again on June 19.” There is the problem right there! He should have been arrested and held without bond just for that. Damn! I mean, some people snap without warning but this guy practically took out an announcement in the local…

Don’t forget the Black woman who was sentenced to years in jail for firing A WARNING SHOT when her estranged abusive husband came into her home. Because that warning shot was just so dangerous to her children. That’s how it works when a woman tries to defend herself.

Take the extremes necessary to live a life where you don’t have to worry about your kids and your life.

Cynically, and sadly, I believe if she’d had a gun, the headline would read:

Because fighting back always works out so well for women.

Jails and prisons are full of victims of domestic violence who fought back and ‘dropped’ their attackers. The system is full of cops and professionals more than willing to explain a victim’s behavior as “That’s not how a real victim would behave.” So excuse me if this guy giving someone the pass to ‘drop’ their…

I’m so tired of hearing about this. Tired of gun owners and their sickening rhetoric. Tired of being told that hating guns makes me “unamerican” and that I don’t have the right to feel safe. Tired of women being blamed for their own deaths, of children shot by their own parents or in an “accident” that could easily…

The summer before I went to college I briefly sat in on a trial where the accused was defending herself from a murder charge by claiming she had battered women’s syndrome. She was deaf—and knowing my hometown, i cannot imagine would have had any luck navigating the legal system or the DV system. So she shot her…

He was cautioned for trespassing — but not arrested — when he showed up at Monica’s house again on June 19.

Gueeeessss who’s not competent to keep the job they’re paid for!