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o Every year in the United States there are over 3 million incidents of domestic violence. That means that every nine seconds someone is beaten by their domestic partner! o Every year over 4000 victims of domestic violence are killed. Ninety-five percent (95%) of domestic violence victims are women. o Domestic Violence causes more injuries to women in the USA between the ages of 15 and 44 than car accidents, muggings and rapes combined. o Nearly a third of the women who seek care from hospital emergency rooms are there for injuries resulting from domestic violence. (http://members.aol.com/CalypsoSun/dv_abuse.html) Two young men wearing long, black trench coats opened fire in a suburban high school in Littleton, Colo. injuring as many as 23 students, killing 12 students and one teacher, then killing themselves. A male teacher and a female guidance counselor are shot in a hallway at a Richmond, Va., high school. The man suffers an injury to the abdomen that wasn't life threatening; the woman is reportedly grazed. A 15-year-old student in Springfield, Ore., expelled the day be
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