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Stalkers shouldn’t have guns: What the Violence Against Women Act gets right

By Madeline Fry Schultz

Published April 5, 2019 3:52pm ET

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Stalkers shouldn’t have guns: What the Violence Against Women Act gets right — Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., speaks as Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, second from right, listen at a news conference after the House voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, Thursday, April 4, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. At right is Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M. | (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

If you’re convicted of stalking, you shouldn’t own a gun.

Many Republicans disagree and complain that this provision in the Violence Against Women Act shatters Americans’ Second Amendment rights. It doesn’t.

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