Travis Lee
Member
Deanimator: good points, there
Playboy penguin: I'll admit to being an extremist. I know one poor sod who is technically a felon for supposedly trying to run over some cops at a DUI checkpoint. What makes me think he was basically railroaded was that he got 18 months of probation (basically for the DUI) instead of getting hammered with prison. It would be one thing if the prohibition on felons possessing firearms really meant VIOLENT felonies, but it seems there are more "paper felonies" all the time. And now MISDEMENOR "domestic abuse" convictions now result in becoming a "prohibited person". Any one of us is just ONE unsupported "domestic abuse" allegation or a restraining order away from being a "prohibited person"
Should we allow "felons" to buy and own deadly weapons? We already do! They can buy butcher knives, baseball bats, automobiles, and gasoline. And if you believe that seriously evil criminals never can obtain firearms, I have a bridge to sell you.
If we are not rehabilitating criminals and cannot trust them with deadly weapons, then we cannot trust them with FREEDOM, and we need to either dump them in a gulag in Alaska, or exterminate them expeditiously.
With every passing year, I am increasingly convinced that all the "reasonable gun laws" which we typically accept are aimed at US, and not at "criminals".
--Travis--
Playboy penguin: I'll admit to being an extremist. I know one poor sod who is technically a felon for supposedly trying to run over some cops at a DUI checkpoint. What makes me think he was basically railroaded was that he got 18 months of probation (basically for the DUI) instead of getting hammered with prison. It would be one thing if the prohibition on felons possessing firearms really meant VIOLENT felonies, but it seems there are more "paper felonies" all the time. And now MISDEMENOR "domestic abuse" convictions now result in becoming a "prohibited person". Any one of us is just ONE unsupported "domestic abuse" allegation or a restraining order away from being a "prohibited person"
Should we allow "felons" to buy and own deadly weapons? We already do! They can buy butcher knives, baseball bats, automobiles, and gasoline. And if you believe that seriously evil criminals never can obtain firearms, I have a bridge to sell you.
If we are not rehabilitating criminals and cannot trust them with deadly weapons, then we cannot trust them with FREEDOM, and we need to either dump them in a gulag in Alaska, or exterminate them expeditiously.
With every passing year, I am increasingly convinced that all the "reasonable gun laws" which we typically accept are aimed at US, and not at "criminals".
--Travis--