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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Woman Murdered Because 1 State Took Too Long Granting Gun Permit Woman Murdered Because 1 State Took Too Long Granting Gun Permit Screen Shot 2015-06-12 at 10.21.10 AMAt one point in time if you wanted to protect yourself from a known threat you went down to a gun shop and bought a gun. Simple as that. There was no registration, no background check, no red tape. Just you and a dealer making an exchange of cash for goods. Now the process can take days, weeks, and in some cases months. The problem with this arduously drawn-out process? Sometimes people are in immediate danger and can’t afford to wait. That was a true of a New Jersey woman who was trying to secure a handgun for herself. Because NJ waited so long her abusive ex was eventually able to overpower her and stab her to death. The Courier Post Online writes: When Carol Bowne felt the threat of domestic violence, the petite hairdresser took steps to protect herself. The Berlin Township woman got a restraining order against a former boyfriend, installed security cameras and an alarm system to her home and began the months-long process of obtaining a handgun, friends said. But it wasn’t enough. Bowne, 39, was stabbed to death in the driveway of her Patton Avenue home on Wednesday night. Her former boyfriend, 45-year-old Michael Eitel, was charged with her murder. Eitel, a convicted felon, was a fugitive Thursday, being sought by a U.S. Marshals Service task force. Bowne’s death shocked her friends and neighbors, who described her as a bubbly, well-liked person. But her slaying also embittered some, who felt the system had failed to protect a woman in danger. Michael Eitel killed himself days after the stabbingMichael Eitel killed himself days after the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend, Carol Bowne. (Photo: Camden County Prosecutor’s Office) “She did absolutely everything she was supposed to,” said Denise Lovallo, a fellow hairdresser at O’Hara and Co. in Somerdale. “Do they have enough now to get him?” she asked of Bowne’s attacker. The White Horse Pike salon closed Thursday, as workers sobbed, embraced and held hands in a small reception area. “We’re family,” said Linda O’Hara, the salon’s owner and Bowne’s employer for 20 years. Co-workers had planned to hold a party in the salon Thursday to mark Bowne’s pending 40th birthday. They said Bowne, who had no children, also planned to celebrate by traveling with friends to Punta Cana, a resort in the Dominican Republican. “She was a great employee, a great person,” said O’Hara, as the phone rang steadily with calls from distraught customers. “She cared about everybody who walked through that door, and every client was her friend,” said O’Hara. “She was invited to every wedding, every baby shower, everything.” Salon employees said Bowne was meticulous about her appearance, but had struggled recently with problems in her personal life. “She got a restraining order about a month ago, and right after that her car windows were broken,” said O’Hara. Court records show Eitel pleaded guilty to a weapons offense in 2008 after being indicted in 2006 on a charge of aggravated assault with bodily injury. He received a five-year sentence for that offense, which neighbors said was related to an assault on a former girlfriend. _media_2015_06_04_SNJGroup_CherryHill_635690100733919108-IMG-1400.jpeg (2)A 39-year-old woman was found with stab wounds in the driveway of her Berlin Township home Wednesday night. She died of her wounds at a local hospital. (Photo: Jim Walsh/Courier-Post) Berlin Township Police Chief Leonard Check said Bowne applied for a gun license on April 21, and that she had inquired Monday about her request. The application process typically takes two months or more as police collect information on the applicant, including fingerprints and reference checks. “We did not get the fingerprint information yet,” said Check. On Thursday morning, Bowne’s silver SUV – with the license plate LITTLE 1 – sat outside her home on the 100 block of Patton Avenue. A memorial decal carried the name of her late husband Roy, who died in a motorcycle accident three years ago this Sunday. Lights still burned in her two-story beige Colonial home, which has a carefully tended garden against the front porch. Police went to the home around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, when they found Bowne lying in the driveway with multiple stab wounds. Bowne was taken to Virtua Hospital in Berlin, where she was pronounced dead at 11:22 p.m. “Everybody is in shock,” said a neighbor who spoke anonymously due to fear of Bowne’s attacker. “I saw her lying in the driveway.” “I’m terrified,” said another, also speaking anonymously. “I can’t believe she’s dead.” This is just awful. Because a state decided to set up an arbitrary process for the securing of a weapon a woman is dead. Can you imagine the frustration she must have been going through? Or the fear that plague her as she waited for one of the few things capable of leveling the playing field? These are the exact reasons why gun control is a failed system. The inability of a woman to not be able to get a gun, when she was legally allowed to own one, ended up getting her killed. It’s time a for a change, and not for more gun control. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
How awful. I cannot even imagine stabbing anyone. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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