Protective order.

Travis Wigington drove through a locked gate in front of his ex-wife's trailer, broke out several windows, and shot into the trailer with a .22-caliber rifle, even as his ex-wife, Carol Johnson, yelled out that her six-year-old daughter was in the line of fire. While Travis attacked, Johnson called the police.

As Johnson spoke to a police dispatcher, she decided that enough was enough, and she grabbed a pistol and shot back. She described the situation to the Daily Democrat (Durant, Oklahoma): "He was gonna kill all of us I guess. I was just dodging bullets and trying to keep (my daughter) down. It was a nightmare."

When the shooting ended, she had a wound to her shoulder, and he was hit in the groin and was out of commission. An initial investigation of the September incident indicated two things: Johnson is likely giving a truthful version of events, and court orders to stop dangerous people from going near their victims really aren't worth the paper that they're written on.

Durant Police Chief Gary Rudick told the Democrat that Wigington was out of jail on bond at the time of the incident after twice previously violating a protective order to stay away from Johnson. He specified: "I hate to see this because a protective order doesn't help in this kind of incident when someone is that committed to hurting somebody. The justice system is failing in these deals."