i truly wish i wrote it, but... i ripped it from a much larger rant for my own purposes 8^)
Posted on 12/27/2013 3:21:24 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael L. Keyes is in an odd situation.
When on duty, he can carry a gun.
Yet while off duty, he is barred by law from possessing any firearms, because seven years ago he suffered from deep depression, repeatedly tried to kill himself by taking drugs and was involuntarily committed for mental health treatment.
Keyes' latest attempt to be allowed to have a gun all the time was rejected this week by the state Superior Court.
That court upheld an earlier ruling by Perry County Senior Judge Keith B. Quigley that Keyes' involuntary mental health commitment constitutes an unsurmountable legal barrier to his ability to possess a gun while off duty.
An attempt to reach Keyes' attorney, Joshua Prince, for comment on the case wasn't successful Thursday. Keyes has been involved in legal battles ever since completing his mental health treatment. He also had to fight to be reinstated to the state police.
He was serving as a state trooper in Newport, when he was placed on temporary leave and ordered into mental health treatment in 2006. He finished treatment in less than a year and had to battle to get his job back, even after his doctor cleared him to go back to work.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
i truly wish i wrote it, but... i ripped it from a much larger rant for my own purposes 8^)
He’s sane enough when he’s a cop, but too crazy when he’s off-duty.
These days, that sounds backward for some of them.
You fooled the judges panel; you get to keep it! LOL.
Makes perfect sense. He’s only nuts when he isn’t wearing his uniform. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
I think the law and the judges are crazier than the cop.
Oh the law suits that are going to fly like geese if he has problems on the job with his gun.
RECALL, anyone?
This is bull. Many cops lost their jobs when the Lautenberg Amendment was passed in 1996 that made anyone who was ever found guilty of misdemeanor domestic violence a prohibited person.
Prohibited means prohibited. There is no exception for “on the job.”
Say, what?!?
The Onion?
Are we all Alice in Wonderland?
What could possibly go wrong?
Stories like this do not surprise me anymore.
Sad...
Not too crazy!, just crazy enough to be a cop.
Well if you disregard all of the morons voting obamaramadingdong in for a second term, I agree with you.
Perfect response.
Frankly, it makes me believe that the judge that ruled this way is far more mentally ill than the cop.
Sadly, there are no shovel ready jobs.
“on the job.”
As a member of the 2A militia, I am always on the job.
Should cancel my ‘mental’ status from being a gun owner, right?
Yeah, I’m sure it would just be more of his usual liberal bent cop slurpin’ idiocy. The poor wolfie-ette kid was certifiable.
then i thank you...
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