Jackson County Will No Longer Prosecute Certain Gun Crimes

wkbt.com ^ | 7/2/10 | Kristen Elicerio

[Nachum]

Jackson County will no longer prosecute people for certain gun related offenses. The District Attorney made his statement Friday following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling earlier in the week that says gun laws should be left up to the states.

Jackson County's District Attorney Gerald Fox says it's every law-abiding American citizen's right to arm themselves for self defense," The 2nd Amendment as part of the Bill of Rights really does protect an individual American's right to keep and bare arms for defense of self, home, family and community."

[Jemian]

Jackson County, Alabama?

[Cboldt]

Wisconsin

[muir_redwoods]

"Jackson County's District Attorney Gerald Fox says it's every law-abiding American citizen's right to arm themselves for self defense," The 2nd Amendment as part of the Bill of Rights really does protect an individual American's right to keep and bare arms for defense of self, home, family and community."

Bare arms? Like short-sleeve shirts?

[Nachum]

Bear arms?

[Parmy]

Now the law-abiding can protect themselves, legally. Shouldn't have had to have a SC ruling to emphasize that.

Bet the crime rate goes down in that jurisdiction.

[LearsFool]

right to keep and bare arms

says Fox's decision is fool hearty

That if people can carry concealed, or maybe use a gun in a different way than they normally would officers are going to have to approach those and make sure they're aware of it.

I feel stoopider after reading this article.

[rabidralph]

We don’t have much crime to speak of.

[Wingy]

The District Attorney made his statement Friday following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling earlier in the week that says gun laws should be left up to the states.

I don't think the ruling said that. Quite the opposite, I think.

[snowsislander]

The full statement from the district attorney is at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2545906/posts.

[Parmy]

Probably have less, now.

[oyez]

The 2nd Amendment as part of the Bill of Rights really does protect an individual American's right to keep and bare arms for defense of self, home, family and community."

What? The government can't do all that? (sarc)

[Ken H]

This is an example of how a strong defense of a natural right can shrink the size and reach of government. Police, prosecutors and courts in Jackson Co. won't be involved in pursuing now defunct laws that infringed the RKBA.

That also means less salary, pension and health care liabilities saddled on the backs of productive citizens.

[jiggyboy]

The writer also thinks “fool hearty” is a proper term. Score another one for the spell-checker.

[handmade]

More and more fewer and fewer people can spell separating out the bare from the bear-much less express themselves in a manner that makes sense.

[philetus]

And don’t even start on punctuation and sentence structure.

[Clinging Bitterly]

...following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling earlier in the week that says gun laws should be left up to the states.

Right at the top WTF is this? Is the rest of the article worth reading?

[Clinging Bitterly]

So, going against my better judgment I read the rest of the article. It is a good story (if this DA is being completely honest) but it really could have used a writer.

[Still Thinking]

[driftless2]

Around this part of the country, even large numbers of Dems have guns.