When do you not wonder?SQLGeek wrote:I sometimes wonder if these "by the book experts" that fail to at least raise the idea of owning and carrying a gun are doing these victims of domestic violence a grave diservice.
A woman getting a protective order often seems to provide the "last straw" that pushes the lunatic into a violent rampage, as in this case.
Those who may have read a few of the messages that I have posted here in five years can recognize that I am not exactly an Archie Bunker anti-intellectual.
However, the community of people who try to deal with domestic violence, including social workers, psychologists, bona fide criminologists, and even police officers seem to think that these problems can be solved by paperwork, legal process, therapy, counseling, and mediation.
They refuse to admit that victims can take responsibility for their own safety by owning and learning to use a weapon and all the other skills that go with active self defense.
Possibly they are so repulsed by the violence that they see every day that they cannot admit that violence is ever an appropriate response to violence. You often see the same mindset among people who work in trauma centers (formerly called emergency rooms) and have to deal with the results of senseless criminal violence.
- Jim