Posted on 04/16/2006 5:33:39 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Two brothers who were shot defending their Brooklyn shop from a pair of stick-up men were busted for returning fire with an illegal handgun, police sources said. The gunfight erupted at 7:40 p.m. Friday when the two bandits, entered Vinnie's Style, a clothing boutique on Flatbush Avenue.
One of the pair allegedly fired a .45-caliber pistol when the brothers, Paul and Jacob Parris, refused to get down.
Both were charged with weapons possession when cops learned the Parris' used an unlicensed 9mm pistol in the shootout, sources said.
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Out here in Cooke Co TX the sheriff would take about a minute to conclude it was justifiable and compliment
them on reducing the criminal population.
When their are laws you obey them.. period.
Or should we all just go the way of illegal immigrants?
Federal suit against the city for violating civil rights, via denying right to self defense under 2A; and try to find a shadow of a pennumbra under 14A?
Not "difficult"; dang near impossible, is more like it.
And what happened to the crooks?
Since the robbers had a legally stolen weapon; and were shot at with an illegally possessed weapon; and had their plans fouly ruined by criminally armed victems, they have suffered enough, and will be released and awarded damages for mental anguish.
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!
Hey, Florida needs every conservative voter out there.
We are working hard on pushing Florida out of the swing catagory and firmly into the red column.
And in the next census, we will push NY out of 3rd place in the delegate count!
We want every one of those many delegates to go GOP.
Lifetime member since 1975.
Wrong. An unconstitutional law is not a valid law, and you are under no obligation to obey it. See American Jurisprudence (16AmJur 2nd, Sec. 177):
An unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but wholly null and ineffective for any purpose. It imposes no duty, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection and justifies no acts performed under it. No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional statute, and no courts are bound to enforce it.
Jury trial = 'not guilty'.
Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
The right to bear arms doesn't mean that you can't put restrictions on those rights.
I don't want a 4 year old running around with a gun.
You can have rights.. but have common sense applied to them.
You think it's unconstitutional that's your business. But then you are willing of course to pay the penalty for those that don't see things your way.
You carry around all the illegal firearms you want.. but please don't ever provide your name or I'll be the first person to call in the ATF on you.
I heart NYC. No, wait, make that I hate NYC.
The simple answer is for all the conservative people who wish to be legally allowed to defend themselves to move to where it is already legal.
Wrong, says dpweiner:
An unconstitutional law is not a valid law, and you are under no obligation to obey it.
See American Jurisprudence (16AmJur 2nd, Sec. 177):
"-- An unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but wholly null and ineffective for any purpose. It imposes no duty, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection and justifies no acts performed under it. No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional statute, and no courts are bound to enforce it.--"
29 dpwiener
Moving out of States like NY, Mass, & CA, -- in effect abandoning them to gun prohibitionists, -- cannot be the answer.
The answer is civil disobedience on a massive scale: "-- No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional statute, and no courts are bound to enforce it --"
Fight enough of these cases before juries, appeal in the court system on up to the USSC, -- and eventually the rogue States will be forced to comply with the Constitution.
Perhaps you've failed to note that those states already do not follow the law as it should be. I left California in 1973 because the writing was on the wall even then. There were more people there, even back then, that thought guns wrong and evil that it was too late; today, it is even more so. I hope they remember that when the Aztlan-adherents go overt.
Yep, reasonable regulations concerning guns can be written by fed state, & local governments, as long as they do not infringe on our rights to life, liberty or property, without due process of law.
Prohibitions on guns violate due process in both writing & enforcing.
You can have rights.. but have common sense applied to them.
You think it's unconstitutional that's your business.
It's everybody's business.. We are all obligated to protect & defend our supreme laws.. The 2nd is the "Law of the Land".
But then you are willing of course to pay the penalty for those that don't see things your way.
You carry around all the illegal firearms you want..
There are no "illegal firearms" under the Constitution. -- Some types are just unreasonably regulated. Such prohibitions are unconstitutional.
but please don't ever provide your name or I'll be the first person to call in the ATF on you.
Nice to know who your friends are, -- thanks.
Why not just repeal all gun laws, thereby ENSURING decorum and good manners?
The Crooks (the Robbers) will get off on technicalities.
I forgot to say that the "Criminals" (the robbery suspects) will be able to sue the business owners in court for everything they are worth (That is, if NYC does not sieze the property for themselves)
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