Except not. Victims who get orders of protection from their abusers are actually more likely to be attacked again, and the reason for it is because they got the order of protection. The abuser sees it as a violation of their control and will simply ignore it to further victimize the person who got the order in order…

Sure, cause a man who breaks the law multiple times murdering his own children would be stopped by the magic piece of paper that is a restraining order. Good of you to blame her for his actions though. Violent men should always be shielded from personal responsibility, right?

The way that a gun can be bought almost as easily as a pint of milk is terrifying. Stomped out of the house to cool down after an argument? May as well pick up a shooter and finish the job once and for all. It should NEVER be that easy.

We’d have the sentence “violated protective order” added into the story. She likely declined the order as she thought it would further aggravate the spouse.

Over here (UK) the firearms laws are so strict that most people consider guns completely illegal. To get a firearms licence, you’ve got to have a 100% squeaky clean CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) record, as well two references from people not related to you, and the police approach your GP to check with them whether…

We know that restraining orders and criminal charges (with bail) don’t do much to stop batterers from murdering their partners in retaliation for police involvement or, as seems to be in this case, for the woman leaving him. So to me it only makes sense that the deadly weapons be taken out of the equation. There’s no…

It will never happen, but when the police are called to a domestic dispute, they should remove any and all firearms from the house, every time, regardless of whether someone is arrested. You should have to apply to get them back, and have your spouse sign that application.

So a man with a history of “domestic disputes” severe enough to warrant the police having to attend was legally able to obtain a gun with which to kill his wife. That’s an odd interpretation of a well regulated militia.

I remember reading a letter she wrote to a friend essentialy complaining that she couldn’t bang her husband without receiving an unpleasant screaming souvenir of it nine months later. Poor Victoria. Born a horndog in an age without birth control.

Did you see the Fark link?

I don’t get it, either. Surely the nurses have enough training (or ought to), and have seen enough births, and this sounds like a fairly routine one where the baby was coming along fine on his own. There’s no reason why they couldn’t allow the baby to be born on his own schedule.

Also, what they did was battery. They…

Not to mention the part where Joe Kennedy had her lobotomized.

Currently snorting my birth control off of the back of a bar toilet while googling clinics that perform hysterectomies on otherwise healthy 30-year-olds.

No, it is absolutely not normal, hence the $16 million verdict. That shit is definitely malpractice.

Sounds like they were trying to delay things so the doctor could get there?

The problem with this blog is that this has never happened, ever, to anyone.

I bought so much shit for my baby that I never used. I think the changing table annoyed me the most. I’m pretty sure I never used it to change my son. It was exclusively for throwing laundry on.

We figured the diaper bag thing with the first kid... then inexplicably my wife felt like re-learning it with the second. I dunno, she probably just really liked the Petaluma Pickle thingamabob and she did get it second hand, but where did it end up? Yep, in the closet NEVER to be used. *sigh*

Anyhow, I would advise…

Collective bargaining is illegal in much of the southern United States. We have what are called “Right to Work” laws, which is a hilarious name since it basically means that they can fire you for any reason, you have no protections, and unions are illegal.

This is super awesome. I’m proud that this is my college.