Give them all guns

The Supreme Court does it again.

WASHINGTON - June 28 - "This is a truly outrageous decision-the U.S. Supreme Court just hung a 'shoot here' sign around the necks of battered women and their children all across the country," said NOW President Kim Gandy.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 7 to 2 decision that police officers are exempt from legal action, even if their refusal to enforce a valid restraining order results in death. The decision in Castle Rock v. Gonzales said Jessica Gonzales did not have a constitutional right to police enforcement of the court order issued against her abusive estranged husband. Gonzales sued the town of Castle Rock, Colo., after she repeatedly pleaded with police to enforce the restraining order against her husband, who had kidnapped their three young daughters. The girls were eventually found dead inside his truck.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0629-02.htm

What are these women supposed to do? Stay with their abusers? Or leave and be murdered or have their children be murdered? My gut reaction is to give them all guns and the training to use them – people have the right to protect themselves. Especially since the police don’t do shit. Not that I ever expected them to - they’re far too busy killing black kids (link: http://www.october22.org/)