Justin
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You can cite sources for your statement?
The depressed mohammedean is not assaulting you by pointing his submachinegun at your house. He very well may be committing assault if he points it at your children -- but that crime likely would be impossible of proof. You could call the cops ten times, and it would be the same thing -- he'd deny pointing the gun at your kid.
It is, because if it hits my house my house will probably collapse and kill me.Pointing a howitzer at your house is not assaulting you.
yeah. No sh**. It would be a much better example. Since your original example is retarded.Actually, come to think of it, a mortar would be an even better example.
Some people believe in holding people responsible for their actions rather than attempting to prevent them from doing something by restricting the rest of us.Kind of Blued, you are essentially correct.
But some of us do not wish to live and raise children in such an uncivilized society. Which is why SOME controls are desirable. Far fewer controls than we have now, to be sure. But not "none." Believe me, in a world of "none", I'd have a lot, and I mean a lot, of "fun."
It's what I get off on. Years ago, Maryland had no open container law. So of COURSE I drank a beer while driving. Maryland also had no such legal thing as a moped. Only bicycles and motorcycles. And if your moped had pedals, it was a bicycle. So of COURSE I powered my moped through parks, schoolyards, malls, etc. Terrorized Montgomery County for a year, until I finally could get my motorcycle license and things calmed down.
None is TOO fun.
Wow. You're not only a lawyer who doesn't understand the law very well, but you're also an expert on howitzers. Somebody give this guy a medal.Not necessarily. In fact, probably not.
In my state, possibly the crime of "reckless conduct" would apply, IF it was an active howitzer, loaded, pointed at your house, and I left it that way for someone to fire off, and IF a few other things were true. If a mortar, probably not, UNLESS it was loaded and the shell would fall on your house if the thing was tripped by a passing kid. But merely loading the mortar or howitzer while it's pointed at your house likely is NOT reckless conduct, by itself.
Kind of Blued, you are essentially correct.
But some of us do not wish to live and raise children in such an uncivilized society.
And you said:It isn't, kiddo. Justin asked what crime might be implicated in the situation of a howitzer pointed at his house.
R e a d i n g is fundamental.
SO... What gun regulation is it that prevents you from doing this now?If you really mean no restrictions at all, then YES that means I can aim my WWI howitzer directly at your bedroom window, load it up, and flip you off as you dial 911 -- because it's legal.
For one thing, live ammunition and howitzers are controlled devices. Getting ahold of either is practically impossible for most people.
It's still a crime. You take away all of the restrictions, and pointing a gun at me, no matter how small or big in this case, is still illegal. The point is that taking away the restrictions on guns does not make it legal for you to use them in crimes.It isn't changing the subject, kiddo. Regulations prevent the whole situation, not just the pointing of one specifically at your house.
The homicide statutes of my state do not say, "It is a crime to stab expvideo with a pitchfork in the testicles until he bleeds out." It says it's a crime to kill someone.
Well that may be the case, but we're not talking about pointing a howitzer at my house. We are talking about through my window, loading it and flipping me off.The point of the howitzer example is that pointing a howitzer at your house probably is NOT a crime. Regulations governing howitzers, shells and their storage and placement in residential neighborhoods are a way of dealing with the howitzer problem, as the crime of assault does not apply, and indeed probably no common law crimes apply to the pointing of a howitzer at your house.
directly at your bedroom window, load it up, and flip you off as you dial 911 -- because it's legal.
Golden Hound said:I just hope that this thread does not degenerate into name calling and get closed.