As they write down at TGW...
Empowerment? Guns will empower women?
Presumably there is little that can be done about the problem of violent men, so legislators have turned their attention to the problem of 'disempowered' women.
(Is it just me, or does anyone else think of "Goodbye Earl," by the Dixie Chicks when they read this?)(I haven't mentioned it in about 10 months, but I still have a major crush on Natalie Maines)
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Hmmm.. reading the original article in Pravda N.C. Law Encourages Guns for Victims (which you really ought to link to) I can't seem to find anything that implies that you won't be able to get a restraining order.
For that matter, it doesn't even seem that this law will make it any easer for a someone to get a gun either.
What it does do is help cut the red tape that one must jump through to get a permit to carry. Apparently in may states, you need to get a permission slip before you can exercise a right, and getting that permission slip can sometimes take a few months (WaPost says 90 days).
Not only does this law speed the process, it mandates that the person be informed of that fact.
Think of this as a CYA law for the Sheriff. What if a victim of abuse was killed after having a restraining order served on the abuser, all the while the victim's permission slip was crawling it's way through the bureaucracy. Wouldn't that tend to make the Sheriff's office look bad?
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