Worth the paper they’re written on
You know what will protect women? Restraining orders that are easier to get. Because that’s the problem. They were hard to get before.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 9:47 am
Maybe restraining orders could be dispensed from convenient vending machines. Or better yet, just have them on the net so that anyone who needs one can just download it and print it out. I hear 500 of them might stop a bullet from a .22, though they’re very awkward as a defense against knife attacks.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 am
So these new, easier to get restraining orders- since they can now be had with no real threat involved, any former girlfriend with an axe to grind now has a very easy method for ensuring you will never again own a firearm.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 am
To add:
not like they were hard to get before, but still-
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
+1 they are quite the double-edged sword. They do lay a good ground work for Police to better aid a threatened person avoid violence from a known threat, and also is supplies a very good paper trail to protect a defender in a righteous shooting.
Still it means anybody who goes through a messy divorce or breakup can get their rights destroyed with no justification or recourse.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Check Google on Lacey v Palatine its showed a large past history of abuse and court orders, yet they all failed to protect her
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Maybe if you get enough restraining orders, you can layer them around you thick enough to serve as body armor.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:20 am
When my wife and I got together, her ex went off the rails. He started stalking and threatening her, me and my kids. We immediately went and got restraining orders against him. The judge and the police all advised us that a single sheet of paper will deter a braggart but not an actual unhinged person. The local PD did advise me that if he showed up on my property, i should shoot him and the possession of a restraining order would be enough to meet the reasonable fear standard without evidence of a weapon on his person.
I guess the moral of the story is, get the piece of paper, and get a gun. They are, to me, different levels on the force continuum.
Respectfully,
Pol