Professional Athletes and Domestic Violence

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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed Kasandra Perkins, the mother of his daughter, before killing himself. Professional athletes are arrested for domestic violence every week. But violence agains women is not anythng new. Many years ago, during the Vietnam war, more women were dying from domestic violence than the total number of men killed in Vietnam!

Women have been woman beaten and threatened for many centuries and surprisingly it has nothing to do with love or jealousy. It's all about power and control, and who has it, and who doesn't. There needs to be a stand against this violence.I would like to point the finger today at what we call our modern, computer smart, and highly even "Havard-ly" educated America. Our beautiful "land of the FREE." Free of what? Defiantly not free of violent acts. Gruesome murders of innocent women take place daily, and it's sad that mostly they go unnoticed. One example of this is the murder of a young mother; 26 year old Gina Marie Lupson-Holden-Young and her young sons three year old Shaun Edward Lupson-Holden and seven month old Joshua Lee Lupson-Young whom were murdered by fire June 9, 2013 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. (1) Their trusted husband and father burned them all to death. This was the tragic conclusion of a doomed relationship with a history of domestic violence. What should have happened to the husband? To me, there is no question. He should die too. Why? It's simple to me. The law should be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (three in this case).

When a person takes another person's life, then that person should have his own life taken as well. Beautiful dark-haired Gina and her sweet brown-eyed babies, did not ask for, nor want, their precious live...

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...impose a quick and swift death penalty, educate our trusted public leaders and ourselves, and ultimately empower our lawyers with the knowledge of the laws and the nature of the beast called domestic violence. All these steps will certainly help. Domestic violence against women is just the first lick on the lollipop of problems that need to be addressed and dealt with in America today. Silence is the batterer's best friend, let's scream obscenities at the top our lungs people, and break these women free. I say, "Get off your comfortable thick asses and make a difference!" There now, that made me uncomfortable, but if that's what it takes, so be it! Stop the violence now!

Works Cited

BREAKING THE SILENCE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Des Moines Register Op-Ed by Bonnie Campbell , Director, Violence Against Women Office, U.S. Department of Justice July 2, 2013

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