Would you support a Domestic Violence Act?

Yes I will support this Act definitely,this kind of violence usually is invisible but it really hurt people so much and will affect to so many people,so I not only support to this Act and I wish this Act will be execute right now.

Why do we need a Domestic Violence Act? If you hit someone it is battery, if you threaten someone that is assault and to kill someone is murder.

I think the others nailed when they said that many men do not talk a out it or report it. Women gathered together and formed groups to fight against violence and abuse. need to do the same. Truthfully, the act should be just about Domestic violence and should not specify women only. The violence in a home is not always limited to just women. Often it is between a parent and an adult child. The act specifies one group of people only and so it is not fair. I can see why republicans voted it out and they were right to do so.

No. Because domestic violence is already illegal and perpetrators are already punished. There doesn't need to be any special category for this stuff. There just needs to be better police work for these situations as they occur, not some sweeping federal mumbo jumbo. And of course women are often the abusers in a relationship, but like with mothers in custody hearings, our nation shows preferential treatment toward women in a few areas of life. I guess it's a make-up, affirmative action-type deal since women were oppressed in the past. Assault is certainly one of them. Jane can smack you, throw sh1t at you, pull a knife, come at you with vicious intent, Joe pushes her away, she falls into a wall, the cops show up, Joe's azz is hauled off to jail and he's spending thousands of dollars and losing his job and his kids and everything else just to clear his name as an abuser. Could be taken as a red herring, but I know of two instances personally where this has happened: 1 time the girl was throwing those knick-knacks or whatever and busted the guy's head open, and he subsequently grabbed her shoulders and shook her silly. The other time the girl came at the guy with a knife and he tackled her into a wall, where she received much emotional butthurt and cried out "HE BEAT ME" when the cops arrived. He actually ended up in jail and with only 1 weekend a month of supervised visitation. The first guy was kept 24 hours, charged, but ultimately beat it. I witnessed the former firsthand, but in neither case did the women get brought up on charges of a false statement or anything. The guy was in trouble.

abuse is abuse no matter which gender the perpetrator belongs to

domestic abusers should face severe sentances irrespective of their genders

I think we have sufficient laws already on the books to cover all instances of domestic violence. One of the problems, as you've mentioned, is that men often don't get the same consideration when they are victims. Most are too ashamed to report it and don't even talk about it with their friends. Cops and other professionals sometimes laugh at male victims because they can't imagine a big guy getting physically assaulted by a "little" woman. In some cultures it is accepted more readily than others. I know a guy who married a woman from South America. She slapped him because of a remark he thought was funny but she didn't. To his credit, he did not strike her back but told her that was the last time it would happen or she would be a single person again. She was shocked at his reaction--some cultures view such violence so casually and attach so little significance to it! If we would enforce the laws we have without prejudice and prosecute the offenders we would not have such a problem. There are many "problems" here that can be solved in exactly that way but they keep saying we need new laws.