Posted on 01/06/2015 10:43:05 AM PST by smokingfrog
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s new victim advocate is joining other state and federal officials in calling for a stronger gun ban to better protect domestic violence victims.
Natasha Pierre took office Monday and technically will be interim victim advocate until the legislature approves her appointment by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. She previously served as policy and legislative director for the state Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and as a legal aid lawyer representing low-income victims of domestic violence.
Pierre, 44, of Windsor, said one of her priorities will be pushing state legislators to add a gun ban to Connecticut’s law on temporary restraining orders. Firearm bans are issued in permanent restraining orders but not in temporary ones, which Pierre and other advocates call a dangerous loophole.
Malloy proposed the same law change in September during his re-election campaign. Several Democratic federal lawmakers, including Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, are backing a similar federal proposal.
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1962: We ONLY want to register handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected!
1964: We want to register ALL GUNS! and ban the import of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles.
1968: We demand the registration of ALL FIREARMS, and a ban on foreign Saturday night specials and army surplus rifles (They got this ban).
1971: We demand a BAN on all SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALS!
1976: We demand a ban on ALL HANDGUNS! Long guns will not be affected!
1981: The NRA is a RIFLE ORGANIZATION! They should give up their handguns and they can keep their rifles!
1986: We DEMAND a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns!
1993: They got a 10 year ban on new military style rifles.
2000: We demand a ban of single shot .50 cal rifles!
They are never satisfied, ever!
“Victim advocate says Connecticut needs new gun ban”
Odd that someone would advocate having more victims!
What.....that piece of paper that you call a restraining order isn't saving lives?
I am SHOCKED!
The state is lobbying the state?
What a joke.
Them coming for our guns is the reason to have them.
Because a domestic violence incident would never happen if there was no gun present, urging the husband or boyfriend to hit her. Fists, baseball bats, hammers, bottles, knives, and assorted random household objects are NEVER used in domestic violence. If it weren’t for the firearm, she never would be harmed at all.
Instead of attempting to ban guns the state should encourage the victims of domestic violence to purchase their own and train to use it properly.
But as usual.Its easier to take away the rights of everyone else.
In the field of negotiations, each person has to give up something to reach a consensus.
We have the guns, and they want us to give them up.
what do they have to give up in return? NOTHING!
NEVER GIVE IN!
Police call it Paper Kevlar.
All rifles are military-style. Even a form of my hunting rifle was used as a military weapon.
So we already have an ineffective set of laws, and we already have possibly a black market with regards to what the government is trying to ban, great! NOT!!!
Sandy Hoax!
Good idea. Flood the market with cheap CT guns.
Step 1: Imply a scarcity of people control laws
Step 2: When possible, implement new laws calling them a ‘1st step’… then proceed back to the beginning.
The gun grabber’s wholly expect their media comrades to maintain the charade – as witnessed to their passing along the lies and propaganda each and every time they can.
And make no mistake, were they to deprive the people of their Commonsense Civil Rights of firearm self defense..they would quickly move on to knife control
According to the divorce attorneys that I know, restraining orders are routinely filed as a tactical move when preparing for divorce. Most of time, there is no abuse, it is just part of the "game".
To the people (Men) that have their 2nd Amendment rights taken however, it is anything but a game.
anyone can file tro’s.
this is just a huge abuse waiting to happen.
it is wrong to disarm for “domestic violence” period. because of the zero tolerance arrest idiocy, and the fact dv includes yelling at someone, plus it is not a felony,
they shouldn’t be able to disarm someone. they also disarm the victim b/c guns can’t be in the house for self defense. it’s idiotic all the way around.
restraining orders do nothing. if a person really wants to get another person, a piece of court-issued paper does nothing. i base it on decades of sad observations.
Odd that someone would advocate having more victims!
The more "victims", the more politically powerful she becomes. She wants more victims. If everyone had a gun and could defend themselves, they wouldn't need this twat "advocating" for them.
The idiot must be from the Wilson section of Windsor, not from with Poquonack or Rainbow (yes, there is a section called Rainbow) section of Windsor.
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