Thursday, July 11, 2013

Order of Protection - worthless

You think an Order of Protection (OP) will save your life?

Here's my advice. If you need one, get it. Then go to the range and use a copy of it for target practice.

Read this story.

Robert Vann Marshall, of McMinn County, Tennessee (between Knoxville and Chattanooga), was thrown in jail on Saturday morning and served with an OP. At 1:27PM he was released from jail.

At 1:38PM his wife dialed 9-1-1 and reported that Marshall was trying to break into their home. She retreated to a bedroom and subsequently shot and killed Marshall.

She is alive, because she was prepared.

If you are a victim of domestic violence, be prepared. Get yourself a FOID card, buy a firearm and ammo, and learn how to use it. And then keep it where you can get at it.

Review the rules about safe gun storage. Unloaded? In a locked box? Keyed lock or combination? Gun and ammo separate?

If she had followed those rules, she'd be dead. The best place is loaded, in a holster on your belt. Got kids in the house? Put them through a firearms safety course as soon as they are old enough to understand. Teach them to shoot. And to shoot straight.

2 comments:

Big Daddy said...

I always tell victims of DV to obtain an OP. Then I remind them that an OP is simply a piece of paper that will not stop a bullet or a knife and that they should act accordingly. Most can read between the lines.

Gus said...

Big Daddy, I'm glad you do that. And the victims need to be ready immediately, as that woman was.