Wednesday, December 16, 2009

A Minor Misdemeanor...

...with major consequences. [More]
Posted by David Codrea at 12/16/2009 10:59:00 AM

3 comments:

straightarrow said...

my comment at the site: The real problem here is that almost everybody, the author included, support denying some people their second amendment rights. True, the reasons vary. But as David Codrea says, "If someone can't be trusted with a gun, they can't be trusted without a keeper." So, either give every misdemeanant and felon life sentences and keep them in jail until they die or restore their citizenship to full status once their time is served. Uh huh, some of them will still be bad people. But good people who are armed can soon clean up that pool.

Anything else is still an exercise in hypocrisy

12/16/2009 12:33 PM
milkorder said...

straightarrow, you nailed it perfectly. Government does not have the authority to control, regulate, or deny anyone the opportunity to carry a firearm outside of the prison bars.

12/16/2009 4:07 PM
W W Woodward said...

My comment on the site:

AP Caption under AP photo:

“Adam Henderson shops for a rifle at Guns and Leather… “Adam would have better luck finding a rifle if he were to check out the rifle display.

I didn’t read anything in Mr. Denny’s article that indicates he supports the denial of the right to keep and bear arms or has any argument with the illegality of DUI or possession of marijuana. I believe he is merely pointing out that, because of anti-2nd Amendment lawmakers managing to obtain passage of feel good, knee jerk legislation, they have imposed unconstitutional “reasonable” regulations denying by “due process” the very right the 2nd Amendment was ratified to protect.

In addendum:

Mr. Denny did make his point that there are state and federal laws (ie Laughtenberg) that have circumvented the 2nd Amendment, and have in his words, “Back doored” the Constitution. Unfortunately the SCOTUS has ruled that these laws are reasonable, aren’t ex-post facto laws, and are merely “administrative sanctions” and not “punitive measures” against gun owners. The government will do anything it damn well pleases in attempts to control us, and as long as agents of government are allowed to coerce defendants into pleading guilty and/or no contest to any charge, misdemeanor or felony, those defendants will many times unknowingly forfeit their rights through ignorance.

12/16/2009 4:29 PM

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