In this op-ed during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Melody McFadden calls on the Supreme Court to protect survivors by overturning the Rahimi decision.
In this op-ed during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Melody McFadden calls on the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that would allow people subject to domestic violence restraining orders to access guns. When I was a young girl living in South Carolina, my mother, Patricia Ann, was shot and killed by an abusive dating partner. He murdered her in front of my three younger sisters — who were 10, 11, and 12 at the time — with an sawed-off shotgun.
But for domestic violence survivors under the purview of the Fifth Circuit in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, the feelings of safety and relief that accompany a restraining order are now gone, replaced by uncertainty about whether they will be protected in the short run — and new gravity to the hypervigilance and fear they’ve already been living with for God knows how long.
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