There was a muder/suicide at the University of Washington involving a revolver yesterday.
Ex-boyfriend comes into the workplace of the woman, shoots her multiple times and then himself once.
The woman had just recently gotten a restraining order against the ex. In fact, it was sitting on her desk, next to her corpse. It appears as though she had show it to him as if to tell him he couldn’t be there because of it.
She should have shown him a pistol of her own. It would have been more convincing.
Unfortunately, the UW is a “Gun Free Zone”, which is why her ex knew he could kill her there.
While those last two sentences may sound cold and heartless to some, they are the truth. And the truth is something no one can change.
The media is hitting mostly on the fact that she had a restraining order and not on the revolver. Yet.
This is the best thing they can do: Show a woman being threatened by a man. He has the will to murder and she has a piece of paper signed by a judge.
Paper isn’t bulletproof.
A restraining order is only useful as a means to prove self-defense after shooting the asshole in question.
You need a restraining order, a firearm, and the will to carry and use it, regardless of local rules.
Actually, the shooter hadn’t yet been served with said order, because the courts didn’t know where he lived. She had the order with her in order to serve him with it in the event he showed up to harrass her at work.
Unfortunately for her, her showed up with something more violent in mind.
I’m a bit confused by what seems to me to be a conflict between the RCW, which does not prohibit carrying on public university campuses, and which preempts local governments from the field of firearms regulation, and the WAC, which does prohibit firearms on UW, WSU, and the direction universirty campuses.
That’s an easy one, HL, neither the WAC, the UW, WSU or any of the other bodies which govern any of the campuses in the WAC system qualify as “local governments”.
The WA-SCOTUS has ruled that even though citizens of the state may carry on WA GOV property, such as the state capital building, the Universities do not count because they are “schools” and leftist ideology may run as rampant as their ruling boards decree.