unintended consequences

If we are to have freedoms of any sort we are going to have some that use those very freedoms against us. If the judicial system worked as it should, equally for all, then society could deal with the abuses against freedom. It is plain to see these days justice is not applied equally across the spectrum of the population.
 
The tone of this thread brought a memory to mind. Elder son had to go to traffic school and take a parent. I have to admit I learned a few things about the vagarities of VA traffic laws.

But the instructor started off by asking a few folks why they got sent to the school. One young lady was there because she got cited for 70 mph (?) in a 25/35 mph (can't recall exactly) residential area at around 10-11 PM. She was highly aggrieved both that she got the ticket and had to attend the class. The instructor tried mightily to get her to see the error of her ways and finally gave up. Not sure if her cert to the court of attendance had any additional comments. This was before such excessive speed would have meant an automatic license loss.

Retrospective thought. If she had kids, wonder how they turned out?
Slightly puzzled. I thought that in VA twenty or more mph over speed limit was felonious reckless driving, or at least a presumption thereof. What happened to the law?
 
I never did buy into the whole 'second amendment confers a sacred individual right to carry a gun' argument. And it is not as firmly established as many on gun blogs believe.

If nothing else, make the idiot hire a lawyer.

Read it Again.

The Second Amendment PROHIBITS the Government from Interfering with the PEOPLE'S Individual Right to Possess and Carry Weapons. The authors of the Constitution believed that rights existed before government, and that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are intended to restrict the government from abusing the rights of the people.
 
This is going to piss a lot of you off, but I got to say it.
Last night someone unloaded a 9mm and based on the sound, it was pretty much within 100 yards if not closer to my house.
Another event, an individual was arrested for being in the parking lot of a known trouble spot bar with a gun sticking out of his waistband. Because the gun was not concealed and he was not inside of the bar, the DA had no choice to refuse charges and now the guy wants his gun back. There is no legal impediment from his getting his gun back.
Even though they have a right under the 2nd amendment and the even more expansive Article 1 section 11 of the Louisiana Constitution, Some people just should not own guns. Period.
Don't know the answer.
The bolded part is obviously true, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is the law that is going to take care of this fact. I posted here a decade or two ago about a short-bus rider who wandered into a LGS and vocalized his astonishment at all the guns present. His case was handled without the law. I have often compared my father's harmlessness with guns to my harmlessness with dynamite, quite independent of any law. Neither of us was ever stupid enough to play with something potentially dangerous that he or I didn't know much about.

The founding fathers believed, IMO correctly, that there was more danger to society from gun control than from criminal control. Some people today want gun control, even though they are not going to get it, but don't want criminal control. Big mistake.
 
I had a Police Officer tell me that he could take your gun and make you prove ownership before getting it back .
 
I don't like the looks of a lot of people, then when I see their gun, I really don't like them. But, if they are not discharging the weapon, I suppose they are legal. (Not knowing if they are a felon.) I've always known driving is a privilege, owning a gun is a right, but self preservation is the first law of human nature. I plan to obey the law. As far as the OP, I agree, sadly. These people are pulling our IQs down just by using our air. I need to stop now and "Post Quick Reply" while I still have this privilege.
 
I think the way the gun is pointed is more important than the distance from the house. Three feet pointed away from the house is safer than 500 feet pointed toward the house. Larry
 
You must live in a very "Special" city;

where you can shoot guns , inside of the city limits and not be cited
on at least four counts !!

Maybe the mayor should write a letter to start the ball rolling, to prevent this, from happening;
or at least let the peolple know what can happen to them, if it does.

In Nevada;
evidence is taken and not returned until after a trial, only if you are a good guy.
I do live in a special city...run by a "special" mayor...you have absolutely no idea!!:rolleyes:
 
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