; Whereas American Indian/Alaska Native, Black, and Latina women are disproportionately killed by firearm-related homicides; Whereas approximately 4,500,000 women alive today in the United States have been threatened by an intimate partner with a firearm and almost 1,000,000 women report being shot or shot at by an intimate partner, according to a 2016 study published in Trauma, Violence, and Abuse; Whereas nearly half of all female homicide victims between 2003 and 2014 were killed by intimate partners, according to a 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association; Whereas homicide is the leading cause of death during pregnancy and postpartum, and deaths from homicides are higher than deaths from sepsis, hemorrhage, and hypertensive disorders, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers; Whereas, according to the Giffords’ Law Center, domestic abusers who have access to a gun are 5 times more likely to kill their partner; Whereas domestic violence incidents involving a gun are 12 times more likely to be fatal than assaults involving other weapons or bodily force, according to the Giffords’ Law Center; Whereas an estimated three-quarters of intimate partner homicides in which there were multiple victims involve a firearm; Whereas a 2019 comparison of violent death rates among high-income countries indicates that women in the United States are 21 times more likely to be killed with a firearm than women in other high-income countries; Whereas 91.6 percent of all women killed by firearms in high-income countries in 2015 were killed in the United States; Whereas an analysis of active shooter incidents between 2000 and 2018 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that 241 out of 250 incidents involved a male shooter