FARMER Padraig Nally, who was last week acquitted of the manslaughter of a Traveller is now hoping to get his shotgun back.Just so we're clear: He defends himself at his own home and is arrested and tried. Even after being acquitted, with a credible likelihood of revenge against him acknowledged by the "authorities," they still won't return his property so he can defend himself.
The single-barrel hunting piece, once owned by his late father, Patrick, dates from the 1930s and was used by both Patrick and later Padraig, to shoot vermin on the farm.
It was also the weapon Padraig Nally used to shoot John Ward on his farm at Funshinagh, Cross, on October 14, 2004...
Mr Nally has indicated he is worried about retaliation, a fear shared by the Garda authorities who have been in touch with him about security.
This is the outrageous state some would reduce us all to--if we let them.
Oh, did I mention? Other accounts reveal Ward went by the aka "Frog," that he had over 80 prior criminal convictions, four outstanding arrest warrants, 11 children...
Of course. The State cannot relinquish the duty of self-defense to the individual. If they did, the citizentry might then realize that they really don't need the State for much.
ReplyDeleteThey keep the gun to show the power they have. You know the talk down at the pub will be, " Yeah, he didn't get convicted, but damned if they'll give him his gun back". It's why the dicks here are super slow and bureaucratic as they can be when returning guns and any other stolen property. They know they can auction it and get more free money and do whatever the hell they want. Damned swine.
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