Opinion

Letter: Illinois must protect victims of domestic violence

June is National Gun Violence Awareness Month and every day, more than 300 people are directly impacted by gun violence in the United States.  Domestic violence and gun violence are deeply interconnected, impacting millions of women, families, and communities across the U.S. Two-thirds of women killed by an intimate partner are killed with a gun. In the last few weeks alone there have been several local cases of domestic violence involving firearms.

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