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周日，路易斯安那州什里夫波特市一名枪手杀害了八名儿童，其中七名是他自己的孩子，事件发生后，维权人士敦促政策制定者填补旨在预防致命家庭暴力犯罪的立法中的“危险漏洞”。这起悲剧也让人们重新关注家庭暴力与枪支致死之间的关联。
“枪支暴力与家庭暴力之间的关联是美国枪支暴力危机中最确凿无疑且令人震惊的现实之一，”非营利组织“每个城镇支持枪支安全”（Everytown for Gun Safety）的政策倡导主任萨姆·利维说道。
数十年的研究和数据显示，如果涉及枪支，女性在家庭暴力场景中被杀害的概率是正常情况的五倍，儿童也面临类似风险。据美国儿童医院协会、约翰·霍普金斯枪支暴力解决方案中心以及“每个城镇支持枪支安全”等机构广泛引用的统计数据，枪支伤害是美国儿童和青少年的首要致死原因。
警方表示，这名什里夫波特市袭击者还造成两名女性重伤，其中一人是他的妻子。一名邻居告诉美联社，这两名女性是孩子们的母亲，枪手和他的妻子最近一直在就计划中的分居发生争执。
这是两年多来美国最致命的枪击事件，当地官员称这是什里夫波特市经历过的最糟糕的日子之一。他们还承认，这起枪击事件凸显了该社区一个已知问题最具破坏性的后果。
什里夫波特市议员格雷森·鲍彻周一称，该市存在“真正的家庭暴力流行病”，“这应该成为市政府、市议会和执法部门的首要任务”。什里夫波特市长呼吁民众求助于警长办公室最近设立的家庭暴力庇护所等社区资源，而议员塔巴莎·泰勒则强调必须严肃对待家庭暴力问题。
“如果我们不加以关注，就会产生这样的后续影响，”泰勒说道。
据美国司法统计局数据，过去五年中近540万美国人报告称成为家庭暴力受害者，其中绝大多数是女性，CBS新闻此前曾报道。美国的数据还显示，获取枪支会使此类事件更有可能造成致命后果。
前国会女议员加比·吉福兹在2011年的大规模枪击事件中身受重伤后创立了枪支暴力预防组织，她敦促路易斯安那州和华盛顿的领导人“立即采取行动”推进改革。她的组织在最新年度《枪支法律评分卡》中给路易斯安那州打了不及格分数，指出该州拥有全美最薄弱的枪支法律之一，同时也是枪支致死率最高的州之一。
近年来，路易斯安那州已经颁布立法帮助保护家庭暴力幸存者，包括禁止被判家庭暴力或殴打的人拥有枪支。尽管联邦法律已经禁止大多数被判家庭暴力的人拥有枪支，但“每个城镇支持枪支安全”表示，该法律并未涵盖所有类型的亲属关系，而且如果没有额外的州级政策，该法律也无法得到可靠执行。
“不幸的是，路易斯安那州还存在其他危险漏洞，使得这些法律无法发挥作用，”利维告诉CBS新闻，并补充说，什里夫波特枪击事件是“立法者未能填补这些漏洞所付出的代价”。
尽管在路易斯安那州，被判虐待者在法律上被禁止购买枪支，但该州并不要求枪支卖家持有执照，因此这些卖家无需按照联邦法律对买家进行背景调查。如果没有背景调查，犯罪记录可能不会被发现，枪支交易仍可完成。
这项特定法律并不适用于此次什里夫波特枪击事件中的枪手，他没有家庭暴力前科。他曾在2019年承认一项武器指控，但仅凭这项指控并不会永久剥夺他拥有枪支的资格。
但专家表示，可以采取其他措施，防止没有犯罪记录的人在处于危机状态时获取枪支。
路易斯安那州没有“极端风险”法——也称为“红旗”法——该法律允许亲属或警方申请法院命令，暂时禁止某人接触枪支。利维表示，此类措施可以“让那些认出身边人存在危险预警信号的人有权采取行动，确保该人未来无法购买枪支，同时确保他们目前无法接触枪支”。
据“每个城镇支持枪支安全”的数据，全美不到一半的州通过了这类法律。
“这就是人类为此付出的代价，生命逝去，整个社区因未能落实最基本的保障措施而遭受创伤——这些措施本应确保枪支不会落入或留在对自己或他人构成威胁的人手中，包括他们的子女和家人，”利维说道。
维权组织多次警告称，有色人种女性在致命家庭暴力事件中最常成为目标，她们强调需要采取干预措施制止这种模式。
“在美国，每天都有家庭暴力施暴者持有枪支，女性和儿童——其中不成比例地是黑人——以生命为代价为此买单，”“妈妈们要求控枪”组织执行长安杰拉·费雷尔-扎巴拉在发给CBS新闻的一份声明中说道。“八名婴儿刚刚被夺走了未来，这场暴力行为本不应该发生。”
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Louisiana mass shooting prompts renewed calls to close “dangerous gaps” in domestic violence, gun laws
April 21, 2026 / 7:36 PM EDT / CBS News
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After a gunman killed eight children, seven of them his own kids, in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday, advocates are urging policymakers to close “dangerous gaps” in legislation aimed at preventing fatal domestic violence crimes. The tragedy has also brought a renewed focus to the ways in which domestic violence and firearm deaths are connected.
“The nexus between gun violence and domestic violence is one of the most well-established and horrific realities of America’s gun violence crisis,” said Sam Levy, director of policy advocacy at the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety.
Decades of research and data show a woman is five times more likely to be killed in a domestic violence situation if a gun is involved, with similar risks extending to kids. Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children and teens in the United States, according to statistics that are widely cited by organizations like the Children’s Hospital Association and the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, in addition to Everytown.
Police said the Shreveport attacker also seriously wounded two women, one of whom was his wife. A neighbor told The Associated Press that the women were the children’s mothers, and that the gunman and his wife had recently been arguing about their planned separation.
It was the nation’s deadliest shooting in more than two years, and local officials characterized it as one of the worst days Shreveport had ever experienced. They also acknowledged that the shooting exemplified the most devastating outcome of a known issue in the community.
Shreveport councilmember Grayson Boucher on Monday referred to “a true epidemic of domestic violence” in the city as “something that should be a top priority of the city’s administration, the city council and law enforcement.” Shreveport Mayor urged people to lean on community resources like a domestic violence shelter recently established by the sheriff’s office, while councilmember Tabatha Taylor stressed the need to take domestic violence seriously.
“These are the residual effects of what happens if we’re not paying attention,” Taylor said.
Almost 5.4 million Americans reported being victims of domestic violence over the last five years, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the vast majority were women, CBS News previously reported. In the United States, data also show that access to guns can make such incidents more likely to turn deadly.
Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who founded a gun violence prevention organization after she was severely wounded in a mass shooting in 2011, pressed leaders in Louisiana and Washington to “act now” to enact reforms. Her organization, which gave Louisiana a failing grade in its latest annual Gun Law Scorecard, noted that the state has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation — as well as some of the highest rates of deaths involving firearms.
Louisiana has enacted legislation in recent years to help protect survivors of domestic violence, including by banning people convicted of domestic abuse or battery from possessing firearms. Although federal law already prevented most people convicted of domestic abuse from owning guns, it did not cover all types of relationships, nor was it reliably enforceable without additional state-level policies, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.
“Unfortunately, Louisiana has other dangerous gaps that make those laws un-impactful,” Levy told CBS News, adding that the Shreveport shooting “is the cost” of lawmakers’ failure to fill them.
While a convicted abuser is legally barred from purchasing firearms in Louisiana, the state does not require gun sellers to be licensed, so those sellers are not required by federal law to conduct background checks on purchasers. Without a background check, a criminal conviction could go unnoticed and a sale could be made.
This particular law did not apply to the gunman in the Shreveport shooting, who did not have prior convictions for domestic abuse. He previously pleaded guilty to a weapons charge in 2019, which on its own did not permanently disqualify him from owning a gun.
But experts say other measures could be put in place to keep someone without criminal convictions from obtaining a firearm if they are in crisis.
Louisiana lacks an “extreme risk” law — also known as a “red flag” law — which would enable loved ones or police to seek a court order to temporarily bar a person’s access to guns. Such measures, Levy said, can “empower people who recognize dangerous warning signs” in someone they know to “take steps to ensure that person is prohibited from buying guns in the future, but also make sure they don’t have access to guns right now.”
Fewer than half of all U.S. states have adopted these laws, according to Everytown.
“This is the human toll, of lives lost and a whole community traumatized by failures to put even the most basic safeguards in place to ensure guns don’t end up in or stay in the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others, including their children and families,” said Levy.
Advocacy groups have repeatedly warned that women of color are targeted most often in deadly domestic violence incidents, and they are emphasizing the need for intervention that puts a stop to the pattern.
“Every day in America, domestic abusers are armed, and women and children — disproportionately Black — pay the cost with their lives,” Angela Ferrell-Zabala, the executive director of Moms Demand Action, said in a statement to CBS News. “Eight babies just had their futures stolen in an act of violence that should never have been possible.”
8 children killed in tragic mass shooting
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