Once again...

Law Dog always says it so much better than me...
The LawDog Files: Meditations on paper armour

Oh, I hear you now: "LawDog, if I have a valid Protective Order, and the critter violates it, he goes to jail!"

Yes. He does. Remember, however, that when he does that violating, you have to be able to contact the men with guns to come help you. And then they have to come to you from wherever they are at the time you call. Until they get there, if the only thing you've got is that piece of paper ...

Well, as we've seen, paper just doesn't make decent armour at all.

Gentle Readers, nothing says, "Protected" quite like a Protective Order in one paw backed up by a self-defence tool in your other and the mindset and willingness to use it behind your eyes.

Or, as a t-shirt that I bought Mrs. Drang says, "You can't rape a .38."

UPDATE: Mrs. Drang reminds me that it was a friend who had the "You can't rape a .38" t-shirt, hers had a picture of a feminine hand holding a revolver and said "S&W, The Finest in Feminine Protection."