"At Least A Third Of All Women Murdered In The U.S. Are Killed By Male Partners"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/men-killing-women-domesti_n_5927140.html"A staggering portion of violence against women is fatal, and a key driver of these homicides is access to guns. From 2001 through 2012, 6,410 women were murdered in the United States by an intimate partner using a gun—more than the total number of U.S. troops killed in action during the entirety of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined."https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/guns-crime/report/2014/06/18/91998/women-under-the-gun/"Across all countries with available data since 1982:the median prevalence of intimate partner homicide was approximately 13%, with as many as 38% of all murdered women (in contrast to 6% of all murdered men) being killed by an intimate partner;the median prevalence of intimate partner homicide among all murdered women was highest in the South-East Asia Region, with approximately 55%, and the high-income region, with approximately 41%, followed by the African Region (approximately 40%) and the Region of the Americas (approximately 38%)".http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/85239/1/9789241564625_eng.pdf?ua=1