Gun Possession as a Factor in Mistreated Women Violence

Almalyn V. Macanip Jorgeatte Eleanor B. Rostata

Abstract
A library research was done to assess the response of abused women towards gun possession and who is more violent between women who have access to guns and to women who do not. After gathering some data needed, the researchers conclude that women with access to guns are more violent. Stories of abused women such as battered and cheated on were the basis of the whole research paper. Mistreated women with access to guns tend to be violent and may kill her perpetrator. In the other hand, women without access to guns rather escape from the batterer, ask for counseling on how to deal with the situation or to tell on to the authority, like the police, and have the abuser arrested.

Background of the Study

There have been a lot of crimes happening nowadays which threaten ones security. It may be robbery, suicide, kidnapping, murder or other cases. Most of these crimes are mainly carried out by men. In the society, men are usually viewed as the type of people who have the ability to exercise violence easily against women; but in reality, some women of today are now aggressive that oftentimes lead to violence. In most of the reported cases of crimes, the gun is the main apparatus utilized.

Background of the Study

Why Own Guns? Protection Makes you cool Family Legacy Criminalities

Definition of Terms
Violence - aggressive behaviour where the actor or perpetrator uses his or her own body and/or weapon as an object to inflict (relatively serious) injury or discomfort upon an individual Mistreat to treat roughly or wrongly Possession the act of having and/or controlling a property

What women in an abusive relationship do Talk to the guy Ask advice from family Ask help from friends Seek help from the police Do anything by herself even to the point of murder

What women in a cheating relationship do Blame herself Stay at home to avoid gossips Force her partner to tell who the third party is Threaten her partner and the other woman to stop seeing each other Kill either man or woman or both and

Kill herself Cover up the murder

How did a woman found a way to possess a gun? Husband/boyfriend/live-in partner owns one Bought it from the market Stole it Borrowed it

Examples
Abused

women who possess guns Abused women who do not possess guns
Cheated

guns Cheated women who do not have access to guns

women who have access to

Conclusion
Mistreated women with access to guns are more violent than those women who do not have access to guns.