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Today on the stream, we discuss why so many domestic abusers have access to guns. And what can be done to stop these preventable murders . Take a look at the trailer for a new documentary from fault lines, which investigates how u. S. Gun laws are failing to prevent domestic abusers from killing their partners. Can i have a Wellness Check on my daughter, jasmine relock, and the reason for the check book fair, she didnt go to work for today. The guy whos with the car for beating her so i dont know if shes alive or not leave with like im being pushed in pool. I dont know what to do. You would isolate her, keep her away from last. She ad marks on her neck marks on her arm back was altura. The sleeve was tore off with the investigators knew the police out of the bullet and went in the back of my head and came out my sheet. All these walls that around here and my daughters gone, we shouldnt have laws and the books are just for show. We punish them on the back end. And by that time, its off until it just makes you angry. The system a warning to our viewers, the conversation today will focus on Domestic Violence and may be too graphic for some audiences. Joining us today, we have fault lines, correspondent and Investigative Reporter at reveal. Jennifer golan in dallas texas were joined by natalie in an assay, who is the director of the Hunter Legal Center for victims of crimes against women and in bel, baltimore, maryland is shannon friday. Raleigh, a professor at the John Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health. As always, we want to hear your thoughts and questions, so be sure to jump into our live you tube chat, and you too can be part of this discussion. Ladies, thank you so much for joining us. Such an important film really stunning, really powerful, moved me to want to understand this more in an even do something about it quite frankly. And i want to ask you, i mean, jasmine story ah, a harrowing example of kind of tragic outcomes that could be prevented. And im curious what you discovered, what you learned and, and why you made this felt we learned that jasmine story demonstrates whats happening across the u. S. And that is that offenders who should not have guns under federal and some state laws are still carrying them anyway. And theyre using them to kill their intimate partners at alarming rates. The number of intimate partners killed over the last 10 years is soaring. And we know that the problem has been compounded by the pandemic. The reason we made this film is because we are driven by this sense of utter injustice that mostly women are dying at the hands of people who should not have guns. And the laws are not being well in forest. And i see both you ladies are nodding, i want to go very quickly to a common that came in from our community. Um, someone named april who i believe, natalie, you know, whos kind of framing the debate in a very interesting way. Take a listen. In the United States, 3. 4 percent of non fatal Domestic Violence events include the use of a gun. That amounts to 32900. 00 non fatal gun events a year. And the majority of intimate partner homicides are committed with a gun. What we need to do to protect intimate partners who are abused is make sure that their violent partners dont have access to again. And we have laws in United States that say that intimate partner abusers cant purchase or possess a gun, but those laws need to be implemented, particularly when somebody already possesses a gun. Those guns need to be relinquished. Natalie, how widespread is this . Is it growing . We heard jennifer say the pandemic things are getting worse. Understandably, why is this happening . Well, you know, its difficult really to know exactly how wide spread it is, because i think one of the things the documentary shows so nicely is that were not collecting data on these issues. In fact, one of the things that so remarkable about jennifers reporting is that shes the 1st person to really uncover this connection between guns not being taken away as the law says they should be. And the answering tre, tardies that are happening to women and the harm thats happening to families. And so, i presume it came as a shock to a lot of your, a lot of your viewers that the federal government isnt doing tracking on this issue. And unfortunately, thats something really common in this area of firearms here in the United States. Right. And, and shannon, thats why i used the word stun. I mean the film is stunning. I was stunned. Maybe the audience might also be stunned to learn that the federal government isnt doing that. I do want to ask you, this is not just impacting, of course, these victims who are being abused or being attacked or who are or who are being murdered. Of course, it also has a bigger implications, right . It has implications for the family. Could you outline for us what the scale is truly of this . Right, so we rightfully often focus on the people who are experiencing the abuse directly, right . So in the case, the scenarios that are presented, the women who are victims of this abuse. But if you think about the context in which this abuse is happening, its happening in homes. Its happening in communities. And there are, there are children who are witnessing there is this abuse. There are children who are looking at their parents interacting in this way. So this kind of abuse, this kind of violence has Ripple Effects and ramifications for generations to come. This is what children are learning as theyre growing up in these homes. And its something that is far more common and far more damaging than i think most of us understand or are willing to admit. And jennifer, the film brilliantly illustrates that its a short film, but you really do get into that from various angles. I want to take a quick look at this clip and come back to you on the other side of it. Take a look. I feel like a lot of Government People dont see how bad of an issue. It really is. They dont see the Ripple Effect from it. After ashleys death, her son moved to another state to live with his dad, who lisa hasnt seen her nephew in several years. And her son hasnt been the same since a shooting. Hes withdrawn. He used to be just open and different. He always tells me how much he misses my sister and my nephew, im worried that it will stick with him forever. And they say children are resilient. So theyre, theyre not supposed to see that theyre not supposed to go through that. When you see that back or what, what can you share with us about lisas case, and that kind of humanizes, what happens to whole family and community when this occurs . Her family has been shattered. Her son, she so eloquently described, there is never been the same. Hes withdrawn, he plays video games during the day. Its affected her entire family and she hasnt seen her nephew in several years. And that was a, the son her nephew who is orphaned after his mother was killed. And we know that there are untold number of kids who are and families who have been split apart and devastated by these shootings and shannon so much devastation. And its hard to measure as weve heard. Im curious when you see that clip and you know, when we talk about this being a problem of enforcement, what would you suggest should be the priority in terms of trying to address this . Yes, well this latest clip really demonstrates, you know, one of the challenges we have in our society because on the one hand, we have over the past few decades gone a long way toward passing laws. To address these very problems. Weve gone a long way toward passing laws, but allow for court to temporarily remove guns when Domestic Violence is an issue for Civil Protection orders. But what we havent done is follow up to assure that those laws are implemented and enforced. And we need to be focusing attention on not just passing laws, but making sure that the systems are in place and supported, so that the benefits from those laws can be realized and that people are better featured and videos like this dont experience the violence that is so devastating to families and communities and natalie, you know, when we talk about these laws in the loopholes and where are things falling apart and how can this continue to, to not get the attention that this documentary is really signing on it . Yeah, i mean there are a number of issues that causes to be really complicated. The 1st is that we have a system here in the United States where there we have a federal system where we have laws on the books, on the federal level, across the country. That prohibit Domestic Violence, offenders from possessing fire arms after theyve been convicted. The issue is that the enforcement really needs to happen at the state level and the underlying convictions are also at the state level. So at baseline you have this really challenging interplay between laws that are, that are in 2 different places, right . At the federal level and the state level. And as thats the 1st big hurdle, right . Right. And when we, when we say that, thats just the 1st hurdle jennifer, i want to in a moment, show a clip from the film where you actually kind of pressure at least question ah, the acting Deputy Director of i think the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms which is, is responsible essentially for potentially collecting and gathering that data right. Or could be a, and i think its important because it really does show that this is a sort of failure and accountability. Take a look at this ah, how many people are prohibited from having guns because of felony convictions and qualifying Domestic Violence, misdemeanors. Oh, i dont know that number. Im not sure anyone knows that number with precision and how many Domestic Violence homicides are being committed by people who are not allowed to have guns. I dont have that number. So you dont know how many people have died at the hands of partners who were prohibited possessors, and we dont know how many private possessors are out there. I dont we certainly track the number of firearms that we c s. But our mission is focused on investigating violations of federal laws and not following up on local misdemeanor domestic relics. Convictions. I kept thinking why i just really, its instinctive. You see that and you, you think it makes, its obvious, almost. So is this a process issue . Is this a funding issue . I think all of those are good questions for our mens room. It wasnt a funding issue. It said were driven by a sense of justice here. And we need the data to be able to create in Foreign Policy decisions. And to act. We know that from our research from our little newsroom that more than 100 people have died at the hands of people who should not have had guns, under federal and or state laws. And they still went on to kill their partners. So its possible the Data Collection is doable, and ive done it. And we gathered the data from more than 20 states, ran criminal background checks on more hundreds of Domestic Violence, homicide perpetrators, and then gather all the Court Records to vet the cases to see who met the federal criteria for being prohibited. So weve done it and its doable so. So then its a lack of, well, i mean you say weve done it, weve do, its doable. And i would imagine your resources dont out number the resources of local or federal government. Im wondering, wheres shannon forgive me . Im just going to pivot for a 2nd because it seems obvious without data, you cant even understand necessarily a problem, let alone solve it so. So im curious out where do you think there needs to be a focus to actually start to to have other people do the work that god jennifer and her team have done well. So the good news is, is that, well, so ive looked around the country to try to find, look at local jurisdictions and identified those that have really stepped up and done, the kind of enforcement work that were talking about here. Theyre hard to find, but they do exist. And what you see when, when you do find those vocal jurisdictions who are doing this work, who are following up on civil Domestic Violence protection orders. What you find are line force that units that are trained, that are committed, that understands the problem of Domestic Violence that understand the real risk that firearms posed. And are committed to making sure that when a court issues a protection order that says you are temporarily prohibited from purchasing that same guns, that Law Enforcement unit is committed to doing everything that they can to assure that the respondent to that order is not possessing guns. While that order is in place, weve seen it happen. Its a small number of jurisdictions as far as i can tell that theyre doing this work, but they are out there and it does work and it does make a difference. Natalie, i it looks like you wanted to jump in there. Yeah, well, and i think its, its important to remember to is i think the reason that that shannon was having a hard time finding jurisdictions where this is working. If is 1st, because only half of the states in this country actually have laws on their books that are similar to the federal statutes that prohibit Domestic Violence, offenders from having firearms. Faith doesnt even have the laws on the books. Its going to be hard to get my mental around and forcing them the other pieces that coordination has to happen very deliberately. Rate youre thinking about a process where you have a police department, a prosecutors office, a judge, a probation officer, all of these different areas of the criminal Justice System who have to be involved in this enforcement process and getting those people on the same page, getting the local Government Entities to fund for those agencies to do this work specifically like we saw the gf, doesnt have a dedicated Domestic Violence task force and so it can be done. It absolutely can be done. Se takes prioritizing mr. Shell, so it can be done. Weve heard from shannon examples where things are working, so there is a some hope here and we have a comment from Ernest Coverson the from the and Gun Violence Campaign manager. Hes with Amnesty International i. He kind of back with some of what you discuss, take a listen, what would it take to in gun bios in the United States, 2 things. One, Funding Community based organizations as doing great work in this country. Doing great works across this country in communities across this country. They are change a lives on a day to day basis. Funding many times isnt there. And so for the federal government to actually fund these organizations so they could continue to do the work. And then to the political will of our elected officials to an add commerce since legislation that will allow guns to be tracked got to be registered gun owners to take responsibility for their firearm. These are 2 opportunities that we have that would change. This epidemic didnt sat in your nodding, i was going to go to natalie, but it seems like