This comes courtesy of
In Jennifer's Head, where she muses on the feckless power of
Just Paper:
We’ve all spent enough happy afternoons vanquishing paper foes at the
range to know that paper doesn’t stop bullets. It doesn’t even alter
the course of that ball of lead. All it does is provide us evidence of
the shot. A document to be reviewed in the aftermath.
A restraining order is much the same. Not only can that piece of
paper not stop a bullet, it cannot restrain a person bent on violence.
We saw this play out a few days ago in Milwaukee. That piece of paper required him by law to turn in his firearms, but it’s just paper.
That paper forbade him from contact with his estranged wife, but it’s just paper.
Much like our paper targets, it’s a document to be reviewed in the
aftermath. Yet this is where the antis would have us place our faith.
In paper. In laws. Officers that can only act in response to an act of
violence and not in the direct prevention of.
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