Meanwhile, In the Raleigh News & Observer...

...comes a sad story of a woman with an abusive husband:

Kathy Bertrand did everything we tell an abused woman to do.

She divorced her husband. She got a protective order against him. She got an apartment and a job outside the home after homeschooling her three children for years. She moved on.

A woman with a law degree, Kathy was not unskilled and was looking for work in the legal world.

And yet she was still horrifically murdered in a public shopping center this week by her former husband, who later killed himself.

I can’t even type that without crying for this devoted mother with whom I worked at our cherished neighborhood swim meets, her short hair always held back with headbands, her clear eyes sparkling. My heart is broken for her children, her two cute-as-button girls who swam on the team, and her freckle-faced boy.

What more could she have done? What kind of man kills the mother of his children and himself and leaves them orphans?

What more could she have done? She could have acquired a handgun and training in how to use it. Was that option even discussed with her?

Feel free to join in the commentary at the newspaper. I've already contributed.

update: As is common practice at leftist websites, my comment has been flushed down the memory hole.