I agree that Costas was right to bring up access to guns regarding Jovan Belcher. And I like this article, except for this sentence which I think is not a good characterization of domestic violence.  "If Jovan Belcher didn’t have a gun, perhaps his mother, who watched her son shoot the mother of his three-month-old daughter, could have helped calmed the fight."

I obviously was not there. But most of the time domestic abuse is not a "fight" that needs to be "calmed" but it is a male treating his girlfriend/wife like his property that he can do whatever he wants with. There just aren't equal numbers of wives and husbands going to ER (or the morgue.) These men are not out of control, they are making cruel decisions based on devaluing women.

It is possible that Belcher was full of respect for women and just took too many hits to the head which is tragic, but I think it is also possible and still tragic that Belcher was the typical batterer who thought that a man should control his woman by any means necessary and if he could not have his way he is allowed to kill her.


 http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/12/03/1270841/bob-costas-jovan-belcher-gun-control/