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To: Choose Ye This Day
We were making light about arming our Border Patrol with "paint ball" guns way back when Ramos and Compeon were arrested. Now, it's a reality?!!!

Shooting drug dealers with paint balls is humiliating..

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37 posted on 04/25/2008 3:00:16 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: spectre; AuntB
Now remember :

Sutton's representative before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals told the Judges that a L.E.O. actually could be prosecuted under Congress' 924-c statute (that's the original one, not Sutton's "amended" version) by simple virtue of the fact that they were carrying a gun.

In Sutton's view, a L.E.O. never even has to draw his sidearm from its holster in order to be prosecuted under the 924-c law. If the officer in question becomes "overzealous" while apprehending a suspect, merely being in "possession" of a firearm is enough to prosecute them in court.

That's the kind of precedent Johnny wants to establish.

51 posted on 04/25/2008 4:13:14 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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