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MORE INJUSTICE ON THE WAY (GUN CONTROL)
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| June 12, 2002
| Paul Craig Roberts
Posted on 06/11/2002 11:07:01 PM PDT by Pistol
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I'd like to know just how many citizens are aware of the implications contained in this business. (>[
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posted on
06/11/2002 11:07:01 PM PDT
by
Pistol
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posted on
06/11/2002 11:07:51 PM PDT
by
Mo1
To: Pistol
To: Pistol
To: Pistol
To: M Kehoe;PhiKapMom;joanie-f;brityank;snopercod;redrock;mommadooo3
Bump.
To: First_Salute
someone is surprised by this?
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posted on
06/11/2002 11:34:21 PM PDT
by
herewego
To: Pistol
A few key points.
>>>The law originated in a strategy by the National Rifle Association and the Bush administration to forestall further anti-gun legislation by emphasizing tougher enforcement of existing gun laws.
>>>Once they run out of serious gun crimes, they push on with technical and meritless indictments.
>>>No one should be surprised when many of those prosecuted in the name of Safe Neighborhoods are hapless gun owners who are no threat to society.
Upon initial review, this seemed like a reasonable law to enact. Now it appears, this law has gone over the line of reason and may be inflicting some seriously, excessive actions and burdens, on basically innocent people. I think a reevaluation by the Bush administartion, is in order.
To: Reagan Man
with ya on hope, but won't happen.
hell, the SCUS had ability today but ran for cover.
get ready for crap, sho nuff crap
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posted on
06/11/2002 11:41:07 PM PDT
by
herewego
To: Pistol
"Another consequence, which might not have been unintended, is jury-shopping by prosecutors. Black juries resist prosecutors' efforts to convict based on expansive interpretations of laws and meritless charges. In contrast, white juries believe the prosecutor." (NewsMax)
B.S. As a lawyer - who both defended and prosecuted criminals for a decade, mostly in the 1990s - I can tell you that black jurors don't hesitate to convict criminals, black or otherwise.
The only "exceptions" are cases like O.J. where the guy has become an obvious "symbol of blackness." But even then, did being tried in the heavily-black Atlanta area get H. Rap Brown acquitted of shooting two officers this past year?
Racial jury nullification by black jurors may be happening in a couple of Sharptonized northeastern cities - but, to whatever extent it is, it's not much; state prisons are full of black inmates convicted largely by urban juries!
Scandals of antigun politicians, activists, and lawyers
To: Reagan Man
A re-evaluation OF the Bush administration wouldn't be half-bad either >:(
To: herewego;Congressman Billybob;Reagan Man;Pistol
Speaking of the U.S. Supreme Court, two justices are due to depart this year, which, given the Senate bottleneck require Bush to appoint two replacements on an interim basis ... or can we not continue with seven "and see how that goes?"
To: Pistol
The ATF has been at this long before this ever came along. ATF agents don't like working in inner cities when they can work in the 'burbs near home. If there isn't sufficient gun-related crime available in your 'burban neighborhood to justify your existence there, manufacture some at the nearest gun dealer so you don't get transferred to some armpit inner city. Too bad you can't buy stock in the government criminal-injustice-system because it's a sure-fire growth industry. Oh, wait a minute, maybe I could buy stock in those private prison companies (sigh)
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posted on
06/12/2002 12:32:44 AM PDT
by
agitator
To: Pistol
Yep, they want to replace the pistol with a bunch of bureaucrats. Guess which one can sin and which one cannot sin? Bureaucratic technology is EVIL EVIL EVIL.
To: Pistol
whaddya know? the next stupid bill Bush will sign..
To: Pistol
bump...bump...bump
Free Republic is a bump in the slippery slope
To: Reagan Man
I think a reevaluation by the Bush administartion, is in order. OK, some fine-tuning is in order. One change would be to have the prosecutors work on other cases also, not be dedicated to gun violations only. Eliminate the "make-work" problem but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater IMHO.
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posted on
06/12/2002 5:29:31 AM PDT
by
toddst
To: toddst; reagan man
OK, some fine-tuning is in order. One change would be to have the prosecutors work on other cases also, not be dedicated to gun violations only. Eliminate the "make-work" problem but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater IMHO. Reagan man was right on.
The feds need to get out of the gun business altogether. Unless it's circumstances where their jurisdiction is clear, such as foriegn smuggling etc.
The whole concept of "interstate commerce" was a gun grabbing fraud from the beginning, fabricated so that they could stick their butinsky nose where it doesn't belong. Using that fraudulent standard, "interstate commerce" can be used to regulate anything. It's an extra constitutional end run.
If a person is a "gun criminal" there is no reason on earth why the respective state can't handle him or her.
The NRA really stepped on it's dick with this one as well as the "assault weapons" ban. They ought to know by now that there is not one single gun law that this country needs added to the thousands upon thousands that we already have. Not a single one.
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posted on
06/12/2002 5:51:23 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
To: AAABEST
We don't need any gun laws. What someone does with a gun may be against the law, but because it was a gun doesn't make it any worse then if it was a box cutter. Prosecute the crime not the tools.
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posted on
06/12/2002 5:57:52 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: First_Salute
SCOTUS will continue to hear cases even if two justices left. Liberals won't step down with a "conservative" in office, and conservatives won't step down while "Leaky" Leahy and Daschle are obstructing confirmations. I don't look for any Justice to step down, barring medical emergencies.
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posted on
06/12/2002 5:59:52 AM PDT
by
4CJ
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