Don Gwinn;
Please know, I am not trying to be combative,
just trying to have a discussion. That said;
You state; "If you tried that in Illinois, they could
throw you in prison" et al.
I say, "They" can throw you in prison anyway,
without regard to what is legal and what
isn't. "They" just have to want it bad enough
and be able to back it up with investigation.
Not tangible evidence mind you, just investigation. We all know where it goes
from there. Someone is targeted, innocent
or not, if the case against them can be made
strong enough, and the defense weak enough,
they can be tossed in prison. This whole thing
can be staged and executed like a play. It
has before, it can be again.
Okay, moving along.
Has anyone in Illinois been thrown in prison
for making such a transfer in absence of
other inprisonable crimes?
Where I mean to go is, just that. "They" can
throw you in prison. As to whether "They"
should, or will, or ought to, or as some folks
like to smugly chant, "can't", that is a whole
other issue.
Near as I can tell, and I certainly cannot tell
all, folks who get thrown in prison generally
really turned someone's crank, or really
had it comming.
Every now and again, as we all know, the
anti-s seem to like to "make examples" of
certain cases. Well, look at these cases,
are these you? Are they "us"? They certainly
ain't me. I've certainly seen the opinion expressed at our alma mater, TFL of folks
wishing for a "Real" test case. A case where
an otherwise law abiding citizen is incarcerated (pay attention to this part) in such a manner as to be excessive relative
to these draconian and unconstitutional laws.
Yeah, sure, some of us have been subject
to hassles relative to our keeping and
sometimes bearing arms. Sometimes it has
been outright confrontational. However,
in the end, in my experience, and others
as well. Laws being what they are, are often
enforced by good and well meaning Officers who have more than just a little clue who
the bad guys are.
Once upon a time, in my stomping grounds
a fellow in his own home defended himself
and property with lethal force against a home
breaker. This got ugly really fast. This was
in a so-called CCW friendly state mind you, all you CCW lovers
(not a fan of being required to get permission to exercise
my rights) Fellow eventually went down
on manslaughter. Did time, after being wholly
stripped of everything he worked for, being
bankrupted, deep in debt and all that was
finally exonerated. -Which I guess means
in the end, you can protect your property
from the bad guys, but not from the state,
Okay, call a foul !.- This whole fight
was really tough. However, in the end, this
fellow won out against the flop-necked,
quiche-gobbl'n, pinko liberals and made it
much harder for them to ever try to prosecute
such a case in the state of Virginia ever
again. While it really sucked to be him, his
contribution to all of us is profound.
*IF* on the other hand, he had been a speed
freak drug dealer or some such, nothing
would have come of it. Yeah, in the end,
it's hard to keep a good man down, even if
he doesn't have the money to "fight city hall",
if he is right, he is right.