The Trace calls itself in its Twitter bio, “A nonprofit newsroom dedicated to shining a light on America’s gun violence crisis.” We’re thinking “newsroom” might be a bit of a stretch, considering this tweet:

A NY woman who fatally shot her boyfriend after years of alleged physical abuse—some of it documented—was convicted of murder, highlighting a problem with the NRA’s position that women should shoot their abusers in self-defense. https://t.co/duMku65iRg — The Trace (@teamtrace) April 15, 2019

Yeah, your “newsroom” left out a really, really important detail while slipping in that bit about the NRA; the allegedly abusive boyfriend was asleep on the couch.

In New York, prosecutors must disprove a self-defense justification of homicide beyond a reasonable doubt.

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports:

That burden of proof was a challenge they welcomed, said Chana Krauss of the Putnam County District Attorney’s Office, during her closing statement. Chris Grover was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. “That wasn’t self-defense,” said Krauss, whose office handled the case as special prosecutor. “Chris Grover was sleeping on the couch. This was intentional murder.”

This is highly disingenuous. The shooting occurred while the boyfriend was asleep. Hard to argue that's self-defense even if you believe her claim that he was abusive. I find it very hard to believe The Trace actually thinks this was a justified shooting. https://t.co/1tSv3rqjdE — Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) April 15, 2019

Even if you believe the woman's claims of abuse, and it appears a jury did not, it's going to be very difficult to claim you shot a sleeping person in self-defense in any court in the country. — Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) April 15, 2019

Given that The Trace regularly editorialized against "stand your ground" forgive me if I find their concern over the conviction of somebody who shot a sleeping person to be completely unconvincing. — Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) April 15, 2019

Unbelievable. And they try to tie this to the NRA somehow because it fights for the freedom of women to defend themselves with firearms — while they’re being attacked. That’s called self-defense and yes, the NRA does approve of self-defense.

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