Posted on 03/22/2002 7:42:56 AM PST by vannrox
Just announced on FOX TV. I was unable to get the details, and I can't find it on the Internet Yet.
Summary is that there is a current High School Teacher who has been arrested. He is charged with a FELONY. His crime is that he was driving three high school students to a nearby state to purchase ammo. The report did not mention if he was the teacher of the students or not. The report did not mention the names or the ages of the students. The report did not mention in how the LAW got involved in this issue.
Does anyone have any more information on this?
Just like loose immigration, there is a conduit for criminality that is wide open, and it is educators in general, especially the tenured ones, as well as certain liberal journalists who hate guns. Now is it any wonder that these very people who use their great jurisdictional powers to observe and control people happen to be the very fascists who not only cry for gun control, but also commit drug crimes and such conspiracy smelling crime of a teacher taking kids to buy bullets.
"It is unconscionable that someone who is responsible for teaching and mentoring young students would transport them across state lines to purchase ammunition,"
This moron thinks the worst part about the whole fiasco was the mere possession of bullets, made even worse by the prospect of having a teacher (aide) facilitate the purchase. There was a drive-by shooting for bloody sakes. What a bunch of Mass-holes.
Perhaps it's that an unauthorized adult brought minors over the state line period.
It may not have anything to do with the bullets.
The "teacher" was a complete IDIOT for doing what he did...case closed. You don't want to support idiots like this, all in the name of the right to keep and bear arms anyway.
Calm down.
FreeGards
Mojo
Agreed. I just liked Dane's dismissive 'gun nuts' comment. It seems to fit so well with the rest of the Statist things he likes. Whatever the government gently whispers in his ear, he adopts that party line.
Oh sheesh, you brought out the dreaded "statist" lable. That will put me in my place, won't it, LOL!.
After all, fascism requires that at least some element of the population agree with the strict government controls.
After all, fascism requires that at least some element of the population agree with the strict government controls.
Now I don't know if you are being serious or facetious. I will side on facetious, since you hit every cliche "hot button" Libertarian word in the above italicized passage.
I disagree.
The right to keep and bear arms is an unalienable right with which we were endowed by our Creator. We each have a right to defend ourselves, our family, our community, and our country.
Just as a mother bear is equipped with claws that enable her to protect her young, humans are endowed with intelligence which allows them to fashion weapons with which to protect themselves. To punish the bear by removing its claws would render impossible the defense of herself and her young.
In much the same fashion, by restricting the ability of a felon to purchase firearms, we attempt to make him defenseless. We fail because his defense is his human intelligence. He will find a way to become armed.
Laws restricting firearms ownership and possession only inconvenience the law-abiding.
In the case described in the article, the teacher's aide supplied ammunition which he was readily able to acquire to juveniles who then used it to shoot at others. Obviously, the teacher's aide could have arranged for the juveniles to supply him with a firearm if he wished it. The laws are worse than worthless because they do not affect law-breakers in the least.
This felon is guilty of contributing to the delinquency of minors since he had no good reason to believe that their use of the ammunition would be lawful. That is a burden we all have when dealing with minors. If he had supplied ammunition to an adult, I would have no trouble with his behavior since he has no responsibility for the criminal actions of other adults.
Thomas Currier, 53, was arrested Thursday on a charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition. Currier pleaded guilty to armed robbery in the mid-1970s and served almost two years in a New Hampshire prison.
Ammunition ... which was subsequently used in a shooting in Worcester on Feb. 2, federal authorities said.
"It is unconscionable that someone who is responsible for teaching and mentoring young students would transport them across state lines to purchase ammunition," U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said.
I think the US attorney should have checked first if criminals are used to teach our kids. But I guess that is not his concern, what is his concern is state lines and ammunition....
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