Wisconsin's law banning all felons from ever possessing a gun violates the 2nd Amendment, according to a lawyer for a man who has challenged the long-standing prohibition. [More]Speaking as an uncaught felon--and a "gun criminal" doing my utmost to "make us all look bad" at that, I approve of the concept.
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There are so many potential "felonies" on the books that it appears that "felony" convictions have become a tool for removing the RKBA.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, in California, if you have an agenda against a neighbor, you can take a highlighter and color in their license tag. If they're pulled over, or a LEO sees the tag, the driver will be charged with a felony for tampering with a license plate.
End result - neighbor you have a beef with becomes a convicted felon.
I saw comments on the linked website - one, of course, posted by the ubiquitous "former Marine" who wonders why ANY convicted felon should be "allowed" to own a gun.
This unfortunately appears to be the typical mindset of the usual Tea Partier, along with maintaining the war on some drugs, keeping military bases in countries all over the globe, effectively charging the costs of being the "world's policeman" off to the already overburdened American taxpayer.
There's got to be a paradigm shift in the mindset of statists to change the built in inequities of the current system.
When a guy transporting guns in conformance with federal law over interstate lines can be arbitrarily jailed for 7 years after being convicted by a jury of his "peers," there's something wrong.
There's a reason I no longer work in the legal system. I saw so much corruption in the short time I worked in that field that I saw no hope. I also wasted around 10 productive years of my life trying to make a difference - but found that few were really interested, unless their own ox was being gored.
I applaud any and all efforts to roll back the inequities in the "system."
With any luck, folks like the "former Marine" who wants no former "felons" to be "allowed" to carry guns will be pulled over and searched at some time. Maybe he does what many people do - such as carry his daily meds in a handy pocket pill bottle, and will be convicted of the felony of not having his medicine in the proper prescription bottle.
Then, and only then, will these types join the choir. Of course, he won't be allowed to vote, but too darn bad.
I just re-read the linked interview by Angel Shamaya.
ReplyDeletePretty much my experience of over ten years of trying to make a difference.
There's the problem, Vern. The bootlickers outnumber real patriots.
I had my fill of it.
I'm still waiting for someone to attack it from this angle.
ReplyDeleteNed is right, there is something wrong. WE THE PEOPLE are to lazy to do our duties as citizens. We are just as responsible for allowing this to happen as the jury, prosecutor and judge. Our founding father would be ashamed of us. They new people with power would become corrupt. That is why they gave us the power to correct things. They just didn't see we would become apathetic bums.
ReplyDeleteThe concept of "once a felon, always a felon" seems okay until it's you or yours being ostracized by society.
ReplyDeleteAnother case of, "if it doesn't cause me a problem I'm not concerned."
There is no justice, only revenge, in making someone, along with his entire family, pay for his misdeeds past the statutory penalty for the particular criminal action.
As David has already stated more than once, "If a man cannot be trusted with a gun he cannot be trusted without a keeper."
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