Gabrielle Giffords is using the NFL’s recent cases of domestic abuse to call for stricter gun control.
Linking the Ray Rice scandal to gun control, Americans for Responsible Solutions, Giffords' anti-gun organization, said on Tuesday that any national debate on domestic violence must include guns:
“Any national dialogue on domestic abuse must include a discussion of the lethal intersection of gun crime and violence against women in the United States, and the loopholes in our federal law that allow individuals — including current NFL players — who have committed domestic violence against a partner but can still access a firearm.”
According to The Hill, “ARS cites federal data showing a 500 percent increase in the risk of a woman being the victim of homicide when guns are present during a domestic violence situation.”
Citing three instances where NFL players were caught up in a domestic abuse scandal where the use of guns was absent is a slap in the face to the victims. It takes away from the real problem at hand: the actual abuse.



