When it comes to domestic violence, when will we ever learn?

With age, I’ve mellowed. But occasionally, I stumble on something that resurrects the feeling that my head is about to explode.

Earlier this week, I read Ivey DeJesus’ PennLive story about protection-from-abuse order s. A PFA is a piece of paper that prohibits a person from abusing, harassing, talking to or threatening the person who sought the order. It prohibits stalking and typically calls for the eviction of the defendant from a shared home.

But violating a PFA results in the same penalty if someone is violating for the first time or the 10th. Advocates are trying to change that. They want a tiered sentencing model in which penalties increase with every violation, in the same way they do for DUI offenses.