Letter: Violence against women is epidemic

I’ve been reading, with heartbreak, The Salt Lake Tribune’s coverage of MacKenzie Lueck’s murder. I have children and grandchildren and can’t begin to understand the depth of sorrow, pain and heartbreak the Lueck family is now suffering.It’s unfortunate that, though the rate of women murdered in single victim/single offender incidents dropped by 31% from 1996 to 2013, the murder of women, gender-based violence and sexual assault are epidemic in the United States.A s