Posted on 05/27/2012 1:11:49 PM PDT by ColdOne
The now-70-year-old Cunningham wrote that he plans to live with his brother and mother in rural Arkansas after his prison release. He said he wants to restore his gun rights so he can hunt and compete in sport shooting contests.
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Holy cow. That's really interesting. I guess, though, that Cunningham didn't bargain his rights away. Otherwise he'd obviously have no standing at all for his request.
In general I agree.
There may be reasonable exceptions, ..etc..
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Allow me to add - If a person is sentenced to 75 years and gets out in 10, at least make him ineligible for the remaining 65 years - and if he breaks the law again make him serve the remainder + - sort of like a ‘super parole’ without all the expense of supervision etc.
Kind of like I used to ‘push’ when they were complaining the crack dealers got harsher sentences than straight coke dealers - with the complaint usually being the crack dealers were more than likely to be black etc....
My solution is to raise the minimum for the crack dealers and then make the coke dealers serve the same, thereby wiping out the inequity.
Yes, felons can bow hunt, but it varies by jurisdiction what equipment they can use. Some can only use bow without any sort of release mechanism (some call it a “trigger”). Some jurisdictions allow felons to use a crossbow. Some even allow primitive arms, such a muzzle loader.
He can take up bowling.
The Federal Prison were Cunningham has resided must have really great healthcare as when Duke was being sentenced to prison, he claimed that he was in too frail of health to be in prison.
And now that he is about to get out of the slammer, he is is perfect health and ready to go hunting.
I agree with you, but the exception should be congresscritters.
“Does he still have the money, or did the Fed. take it as I expect?”
Do bank robbers get set free if they give back the money they stole?
I have an autographed copy of his book, “Fox 2”.
Too bad, soo sad Cunningham. Yer a felon - case closed.
Let's see.
Took bribes while holding office in the House.
Barred from holding elected office?
Barred from having bank accounts?
Barred from having a lobbying position?
Or, barred from his unalienable Second Amendment Rights?
Viewed in the light of COMMON SENSE and FREEDOM we see it makes no sense whatsoever.
Viewed in the light of tyranny and oppression we see it making perfect sense.
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Not a clear answer.
Please put aside the vitriol for a moment.
Does he have millions in illicit funds waiting for him on release or not?
The money he got in bribes was hardly “Taxpayer funds”, or are the taxpayers now the intended recipients of bribes which he intercepted?
No use of arms in his crime, no one was physically harmed.
Greedy, yes.
Gave in to temptation, yes.
But no one injured.
So I would restore his basic rights.
Same for others, unless physical harm or threat was involved, rights to be restored.
Under that standard I would include drug dealers among those losing some of their civil rights, drugs kill and maim.
EVERYONE retains the right to self-defense sans firearms, even thugs.
No one can be compelled to accept assault.
The idea that we will continue to with hold your constitutional rights from you for something you have already been punished for is repugnant.
It they are not able to be trusted out in the public... well, we should have kept them locked up.
BINGO!
I think the sentiment is growing in part due to the expanding number of crimes.
There also seems to be a trend to give short sentences to the truly dangerous. A bad combination.
“The money he got in bribes was hardly “Taxpayer funds”, or are the taxpayers now the intended recipients of bribes which he intercepted?”
Is it your belief that the companies with government contracts that give 2.4 million in bribes to a congressman do not pass that cost on to the taxpayer?
Just curious, how much better than that would the best bid have been if it had been opened to all bidders. Maybe the taxpayer wasn’t too badly cheated after all.
Though of course it still stinks to high heaven that the congresscritter got a kick back. How can anybody with any semblance of ethics DO that.
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