Finally, Actually Saying No: A Call for Reform of Gun Rights Legislation and Policies to Protect Domestic Violence Survivors
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Finally, Actually Saying No: A Call for Reform
of Gun Rights Legislation and Policies to Protect
Domestic Violence Survivors
Claire McNamara*
There will be many, many times in the course of your . . . lives
where you will be encouraged-in shockingly plain ways-to take
the easy way, to go along with the group in contradiction to your
own principles. You will one day be standing in the shoes of Faust
.... But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your
saying no to inhumane ideas .... [D]efiance of the mob, in the
service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of
courage I know.
- Representative Gabrielle Giffords'
INTRODUCTION
On July 21, 2008, Redmond, Washington, resident Melissa Batten
obtained a temporary protection order through King County against her
estranged husband, Joseph Batten.2 Prior to the issuance of the order, Joseph
Claire McNamara is proud to be in her final year of law school at Seattle University as
this article goes to press. She is thankful for all of her friends and family for their
incredible support.
1 Gabrielle Giffords served in the House of Representatives from 2007 until 2012. 1
served as a volunteer for her first campaign in 2006 in our shared hometown, Tucson,
Arizona. Representative Giffords was critically wounded during a mass shooting near a
Tucson supermarket at a campaign event. Representative Giffords subsequently resigned
from her congressional seat in order to undergo extensive rehabilitation therapy, but now
advocates publicly for sensible gun control reform via the Americans for Responsible
Solutions Organization. Representative Giffords spoke the words above at my graduation
from Scripps College, our mutual undergraduate institution. Ms. Giffords is an inspiration
to me. This article is dedicated to her. Gabrielle Giffords, Representative, United States
Congress, Scripps College Commencement Address (May 17, 2009), available at
http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/speeches/gabrielle-giffords-93.
' Peyton Whitley, Slain Woman Had Protection Order, SEATTLE TiMES, Aug. 1, 2008,
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