Behind the decades-long fight to close the 'boyfriend loophole'

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An effort to get guns out of the hands of abusive boyfriends failed again in Congress. We discuss the story behind the two-decades old fight to close the so-called “boyfriend loophole."

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0:50.6	Last month, President Joe Biden signed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
0:57.2	The act has always been important to him as senator Biden helped write the original legislation
1:02.7	in 1990. Here he is in a December hearing that year.
1:06.8	30% of all the women who seek treatment in hospital emergency rooms for any reason are there because
1:14.8	they're the victims of wife beating.
1:17.8	And most tragically, every week between now and Christmas, about 30 women will be killed
1:23.9	by their spouses. So the crisis of domestic violence is taken to its worst extreme.
1:31.6	The Violence Against Women Act was signed into law in 1994.
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