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What to know about the Violence Against Women Act as the landmark law turns 30
What do advocates want to see?
Jennifer Mondino, director of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund at the National Women’s Law Center, hopes that future renewals of VAWA implement more firearm limitations and checks on individuals with an established history of sexual violence.
“We have a huge problem with guns in this country, and [guns are] so, so often — I think heartbreakingly often — inextricably linked with sexual violence,” Mondino said. “If you look into the personal histories of so many people that have been involved in acts of violence in our country, let’s say in the last decade or so, so often those are people that had personal histories of sexual violence.”
