One of Laughlin's concerns was the issue of domestic abuse. He became involved in this after witnessing a neighbor, a police officer, beating his wife.^[11] He blamed the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson on domestic abuse, saying:

O. J. Simpson was my neighbor up the street on Rockingham. He lived at 300 Rockingham Drive – across from Linda Ronstadt – while I lived at 100 Rockingham. I've known O.J. forever. This is one of the sickest, sorriest days in our culture, that he was found 'not guilty'. I've told him since 1985 he'd end up in jail. Eight times [Nicole] cried out and eight times, because it was O.J. and it was woman-battering, it was dismissed. But now, with the trivialization, people are afraid to call because they don't trust that the system will help them. The fact that [O.J.] was found not guilty is going to make that 10 times worse. If you can't get help, if there is no justice, if there is no legal system that will help them, where do you go? Who's going to call? Why call if you're not going to get help.^[81]