That's self-defense at its finest, as long as they both get out okay and the attacker learns their lesson that's more than you can ask for..... Too bad gun control advocates would never pay attention to anything like this.

Most people think laws are beneficial, and support them.

To roman: please distribute 1 btc to all users so we can use it to provide liquidity on your exchange.

I think (sorry bitmit) we should all start selling on eBay and in the title say "accept bitcoin payments"... 10% discount or something along those lines. Just to spread the word and give PayPal the finger. I'm actually getting a chargeback at the moment  

This is as much for the protection of the U.S. (and likely its allies) as it is for the protection of these people.  You have no idea what information these people may have been exposed to while their husband/father/whatever was in office and its pretty common knowledge that the president directly would be exposed to lots of information.  So the protection is more protection of that information (note the till he dies part) more than the people themselves.  I would be frankly surprised if any government that has meaningful heads of state don't all do the same but I don't know ALL world government policies so this is just an assumption.