Ruled a Threat to Family, but Allowed to Keep Guns

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Early last year, after a series of frightening encounters with her former husband, Stephanie Holten went to court in Spokane, Wash., to obtain a temporary order for protection.

Her former husband, Corey Holten, threatened to put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger, she wrote in her petition. He also said he would “put a cap” in her if her new boyfriend “gets near my kids.” In neat block letters she wrote, “He owns guns, I am scared.”

The judge’s order prohibited Mr. Holten from going within two blocks of his former wife’s home and imposed a number of other restrictions. What it did not require him to do was surrender his guns.

About 12 hours after he was served with the order, Mr. Holten was lying in wait when his former wife returned home from a date with their two children in tow. Armed with a small semiautomatic rifle bought several months before, he stepped out of his car and thrust the muzzle into her chest. He directed her inside the house, yelling that he was going to kill her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/us/facing-protective-orders-and-allowed-to-keep-guns.html?pagewanted=print

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1. Let's predict Team NRA's response to this story:

1) Just because they get accused doesn't mean they lose their constitutional rights;

2) Wife-beaters need assault rifles to protect themselves against . . .

3) Gun-grabber!!!

4) Like we're supposed to value the safety of women over guns.

Others?

[malaise]

2. This - from page 4 of the article

“It astounds me,” Mr. Ridout said. “I cannot believe we have a society where a person has physically abused another person and been charged with assaulting her and that they don’t automatically take away his weapon.”

You see his second amendment rights mean more than her right to life.

[diabeticman]

3. So The NRA made sure Mr. Holten's guns or second amendment wasn't taken away from him BUT

it's okay in the NRA's eyes that Ms Holten's life was ALMOST taken away by Mr Holten.

I suppose in Wayne-I-want-all-the-guns-in-the-world-La Pierre's mind The best way for the state and Ms. Holten to handle this mess is that she have a gun of her own to protect herself from that bad man with a gun.





Can we please GET some Common sense on Gun Control NOW?