“Gun Death” Restraining Order

I’ve had several people contact me for advice about stalkers or people who are making violent threats against them. I tell them two things: Get a Protective Order, and get a gun, and train to use it. Its stories like this that drive my advice.

A Carlsbad woman found strangled last week had claimed days before she went missing that her ex-boyfriend was stalking her and her daughter, had threatened one of her friends and had once dragged her into his car before she escaped, according to documents supporting a domestic violence restraining order.

Now in this case the woman was killed by strangulation. All the gun control in the world would not have stopped this brutal murder. On the other hand if she had been armed she certainly would have stood a better chance at defending herself. And if the fight culminated in this jerk being shot dead the protective order would have both documented past violence, and future violence, and she would have a VERY solid case for justifiable homicide.

But that’s just about all restraining orders do. They certainly don’t STOP a violent person from doing ANYTHING. Bullets do. Consider that.

h/t Wallphone

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  1. Bubblehead Les says:

    Here’s some Silver Lining. I know Ohio allows it (and some states may also do so), but here in Buckeye Land, one can get an Emergency Concealed Carry License without having to go through the training, Background Check, etc. PROVIDED that one has something like a Restraining Order to show the Sheriff. I believe it lasts for 3 months, and one still has to obey all the pertinent CCW Laws, but it does give one the option to “pack heat” while one then goes about getting the regular CCW.

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