If her date had been a soldier just home from Iraq, she would be alive and the thug would be in the hospital having the gun removed from his @ss.
But to the hardcore leftists (and looking at some of the URLs she proudly listed on her site, she was a hardcore leftist), men who served in the military are stupid, trying to prove their manhood and aren't "smart" enough to understand the artsy fartsy b.s. that her type spews on a regular basis.
Thus, a woman like that dating a soldier just back from Iraq is about as likely as me dating a metrosexual, vegetarian wimp who won't get a job because he's too busy writing "poetry."