I don't believe in these "enhancement" crimes. Violence is violence, period. If an assault of a stranger is not a felony or takes away constitutional rights for a lifetime even after you done your time and paid your fines, then the same level of violence against a brother, sister, ex girlfriend, wife, adult child, etc should NOT result in lose of a constitutional right. Period.
Furthermore, most DV cases don't involve some 95lb poor defensive woman. A man can be charged with DV for throwing a pillow, spitting, pushing, grabbing, holding, plucking, tossing a cup of water, etc, at woman or even a male family member even if that person is an active participant or even an aggressor. The bar for a DV charge is extremely low, and doesn't involve beating a poor defenseless woman half to death the overwhelming majority of the time like the antigunners and feminist like to protray. Most men are idiots who want to be white knights, and a lot of women are the instigators, manipulators, and are the violent ones. These women know that with a few tears and their word alone will have other women, white knights, and the law on their side.
Almost two decades ago when my ex and I were going through a custody dispute, she falsely got a restraining order against me to prevent me from picking up our son who she was keeping from me from the babysitter while she was at work. Law enforcement already told he that she could not stop me from seeing my child as there was no visitation or custody order at the time, so she lied by saying I threatened her over the phone. In my state, a man can not even see the affidavit of what he was accused of doing via the protective order until the day of court. At court, the female gets a free court appointed lawyer on her side representing her while men must pay for representation out of pocket. I was served at work and instantly lost firearm rights without even knowing why until weeks later.
Even if a girlfriend or spouse is actively attacking a man, and a man pushes, hits, or touches her, they're both going to jail for DV in my state. LE have a policy that they'll arrest first and let the judge sort everything out later. When it's he said she said with a crying female, chances are the woman will be believed regardless of the evidence. Take Jonathan Majors and Johnny Depp for a prime example. This is why weak minded men, aka white knights who want to take away Constitutional rights for life over a misdemeanor and because it makes them feel more manly by virtue signaling pisses me off.
