Arm Potential Victims of Domestic Violence

thetruthaboutguns.com ^ | 2/21/2015 | Robert Farago

[rktman]

Let’s say you want to stop someone from shooting you. You could A) lobby for more gun control, B) report the potential killer to the police, or C) arm yourself. Choose any two. Common sense suggests that B and C are the correct answer. Even if you think “stricter” gun laws could keep a gun out of the hands of your potential killer, you’d have to be crazy to consider it a short-term solution. When it’s your life on the line, short-term solutions are what you need. And any law that makes it harder for you, the innocent party, to get a gun to defend your life is a bad thing, not a good thing. So, did I miss something? If so, here’s a story from Houston that makes the point in a more emotionally engaging way . .

[rktman]

This may be the article that Mr. Farago mentioned in my previous post.

[Oatka]

While the police cynically refer to a Restraining Order as “Paper Kevlar”, it DOES establish a verifiable trail that the perp was stalking the victim – and will come in handy when the victim shoots the crap out of said perp when he comes after them again.

Time after time you hear the meme “We can’t arrest him until he tries something”. And then, when “something” is tried, they cordon off the crime scene with yellow tape and draw a chalk outline around the victim.

Who is within that outline is determined by whether or not the victim armed him/her self.