Several of the items on the list are already against the law. Does anyone really believe making them against the law again would have changed anything? Seriously? And making Invasion of Privacy within a marriage a felony will be sending a lot of women and men to prison for something that is a problem in their marriage and needs to be worked out by them. As in so many of these type cases, the woman must have generally been okay with much of this behavior as she stayed with him. There are already laws which provide for restraining orders and the like. Did she avail herself of them? If not, what will making such behavior illegal again do? Ditto if she did not avail herself of existing law.
People make poor choices in not only selecting partners, but in remaining with them until stuff reaches critical mass. Then their families, displaying neurotic behaviors which likely explains much of how their loved one got into, and stayed in, such a situation, expect police, lawmakers, and everyone else to fix it for them. It is an old story.
By all accounts, the lady committed suicide. Her trip to buy the gun, I believe, was captured on video. She communicated intent to do herself in. Body found. Gun found. Case closed. Her family wants this to be something other than suicide so they seek everyone’s help in altering reality to make it the way they want it to be.
We have plenty of laws already on the books from attempts to kowtow to people in these neurotic relationships who most likely, were offered opportunity after opportunity to get away from the alleged abuser, but either rejected them immediately or eventually returned to the abuser after having gotten away.
We do not need more laws named after a deceased person because the bill did not have enough merit to pass on its own, but needed the emotional push of putting someone’s name on it.
ONE MORE TIME – I and several other readers have asked repeatedly – if the found “shell casings” (PLURAL) on the site, how could this possibly be a suicide? Did she put a gun to her head and miss?
Is this just repeated bad reporting, or really bad police work?
She might have test fired the gun before using it to be sure she could achieve the desired result with it. Walking into a gun store and purchasing the gun and then communicating a desire to end her life, it seems likely enough that she was ultimately responsible for her exit from this mortal coil.
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Several of the items on the list are already against the law. Does anyone really believe making them against the law again would have changed anything? Seriously? And making Invasion of Privacy within a marriage a felony will be sending a lot of women and men to prison for something that is a problem in their marriage and needs to be worked out by them. As in so many of these type cases, the woman must have generally been okay with much of this behavior as she stayed with him. There are already laws which provide for restraining orders and the like. Did she avail herself of them? If not, what will making such behavior illegal again do? Ditto if she did not avail herself of existing law.
People make poor choices in not only selecting partners, but in remaining with them until stuff reaches critical mass. Then their families, displaying neurotic behaviors which likely explains much of how their loved one got into, and stayed in, such a situation, expect police, lawmakers, and everyone else to fix it for them. It is an old story.
By all accounts, the lady committed suicide. Her trip to buy the gun, I believe, was captured on video. She communicated intent to do herself in. Body found. Gun found. Case closed. Her family wants this to be something other than suicide so they seek everyone’s help in altering reality to make it the way they want it to be.
We have plenty of laws already on the books from attempts to kowtow to people in these neurotic relationships who most likely, were offered opportunity after opportunity to get away from the alleged abuser, but either rejected them immediately or eventually returned to the abuser after having gotten away.
We do not need more laws named after a deceased person because the bill did not have enough merit to pass on its own, but needed the emotional push of putting someone’s name on it.
More law, less justice.
—-Marcus Tullius Cicero
ONE MORE TIME – I and several other readers have asked repeatedly – if the found “shell casings” (PLURAL) on the site, how could this possibly be a suicide? Did she put a gun to her head and miss?
Is this just repeated bad reporting, or really bad police work?
Tom Balek
She might have test fired the gun before using it to be sure she could achieve the desired result with it. Walking into a gun store and purchasing the gun and then communicating a desire to end her life, it seems likely enough that she was ultimately responsible for her exit from this mortal coil.