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The social drama of domestic abuses is revealing all its wide diffusion in all the Countries of the world and of, course, in the US that must always to face a high and endemic violence level in their society, too charged of stress and relation problems among individuals. This violence is frequently performed by fathers on their partners and children, by mothers, equally, on their children and also from adult sons, mainly male, on their old parents to obtain from them money, for example, to buy abuse drugs or to pay their gambling losses.

So, when certain subjects are charged or, on the more reason, have already been condemned in the past for violence in their family or outside it, I personally consider absurd allowing such guys the right to own a gun or a rifle. This would mean giving them a real licence to kill, able to multiply the violent and criminal potential of these persons, to make more worrying and dangerous their threats and the likelihood they can wound or kill one or more components of their own family.

The average American citizens should understand better than me that the offensive potential of a rifle or a gun is higher than that of a knife or a club; the last two need a contact between two persons, while a firearm can hit and kill at a long distance and also a much higher number of persons.

The possess of a firearm should be limited as much as possible, as made in many other Countries where the crime rates are much lower than in US and allowed only with a license (after a careful exam on the subject) given people without any criminal record and psychologically recognized not easy to violent behaviour or addicted to drugs and alcohol.
This wouldn't reduce murders in family or along the streets to zero, but could lower much their frequency, at least, to the levels of many other Countries like mine (I'm not American).

So, rifles and guns shouldn't be anymore on sale even in supermarkets, as clearly shown by the great Michael Moore, in one of his most successful documentary movies, "Bowling for Columbine" (2002), as it's possible in the US.
Here, a violent or psychopathic father, husband or son can create an arsenal in his house with the pretext of keeping it safe or being a pacific collector, but his real intentions are keeping a heavy rule on his family.

All violent persons who own a weapon profit of it to increase their violent and arrogant power on the persons around them, thinking it would be easier to be respected, obeyed, or simply

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