[OXENinFLA]

Is this true?

Will he be able to buy guns?

[OXENinFLA]

Ping....

[George Smiley]

If he's a felon, then Federal law prohibits him from even *touching* a firearm.

[Paloma_55]

Either way, the ACLU is responsible for this.

It is the left, and the ACLU as their primary tool, that either eliminate the death penalty or make it so difficult to enforce that it has no effectiveness.

Conservatives would have had this guy hanging from the gallows shortly after his trial and conviction.

Those who worry about the one innocent person who might get convicted wrongly should think about the hundreds who get murdered by those who are set free wrongly.

[Not A Snowbird]

Is he not a convicted felon? Or am I missing something.

[Chode]

these people are amazing... they want convicted felons to VOTE but not own guns!!! Both or NEITHER but NOT one or the other.

[flashbunny]

When has the truth ever stopped the brady campaign???

[Mo1]

Mitchell Johnson, who as a 13-year-old on March 24, 1998

My guess is because he was tried as a juvenile and not as an adult

Different rules

[Brilliant]

Why should he be out of jail at all? That is the more perplexing question.

[Hegemony Cricket]

"...this is a textbook case of an individual who should be deemed by society as forever barred from the privilege of owning a gun...

BUZZZZZZZZZ! This is a textbook case of an individual who should be deemed by society as forever barred from THE REST OF SOCIETY!

[Brilliant]

We've got a killer on the streets, and it's the fault of the legislature and the courts.

[Zeroisanumber]

Juvinile record, it gets wiped when he leaves prison.

[P8riot]

Is this true?

Will he be able to buy guns?

Not if he answers questions 12 c and 12 f on the required atf form 4473 truthfully.

[Ancesthntr]

1. If his record is wiped clean - as if the conviction never occurred - then he could buy guns. If that's true, then which side of the political spectrum is responsible for THAT? Is it the one that is pro-2nd Amendment and anti-criminal, and which would've had this scumbag tried as an adult and AT LEAST locked up for life for 5 pre-meditated murders or, OTOH, is it the anti-2nd Amendment crowd, the ones who are also for coddling criminals, against the death penalty, against tough penalties for juvies and certainly against trying them as adults, and also in favor of the idea of "reforming" serious sociopaths? Hmmm, which one to pick? 2. Hey, Sarah, here's a dollar, go buy a freakin' clue you dried up old hag: the guy committed 5 murders, and probably broke at least a half dozen other federal and state laws in the process. Do you really think that a law that says he can't have a gun will stop him from buying one from a criminal gang, or stealing one himself?

Actually, Sarah, I know that you and your fellow travelers are smarter than that: you know very well that it WON'T stop him, and you are so evil that you don't even rise to the level of not particularly caring. No, because your goal is nothing less than complete civilian disarmament, you are ecstatic every time their is a shooting (particularly of kids), practically dancing on the graves of the freshly dead victims and using their tragic deaths as an excuse to ask for more money and to militate to tighten the noose around the necks of those who would (dare to) own guns even further.

The fact is that the policies that you espouse (see above) are calculated to lead to MORE shootings, which (in your dreams) would lead to less people having guns. Oh, and then the odds for the criminals and sickos being successful get better, so they commit more crimes, etc., etc., ad infinitem until we end up like (formerly) Great Britain.

I'm really getting tired of Sarah Brady. Anyone care to contribute to Sarah's cigarette fund?

[dead]

He was prohibited, by law, from shooting five people to death. Yet, as if by magic, he was able to shoot five people to death.

If prohibited, by law, from buying a gun, he could once again conjure up that same magic to obtain a gun and shoot five more people to death.

He's a magician who is mysteriously not bound by our laws. He should be bound by our prison bars, where that voodoo that hedoo will be contained.

[RedwM]

Don't worry. He's been rehabilitated.