MORE INJUSTICE ON THE WAY (GUN CONTROL)

NewaMax.com | June 12, 2002 | Paul Craig Roberts

[Pistol]

I'd like to know just how many citizens are aware of the implications contained in this business. (‡>[

[Mo1]

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Letter to Charlton Heston regarding and defending our individual rights

A Call to Arms is not Sufficient

We only have the rights we defend, as long as we are able.

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Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, by Paul Craig Roberts and , Lawrence M. Stratton.

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Bump.

[herewego]

someone is surprised by this?

[Reagan Man]

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.

[herewego]

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

[glc1173@aol.com]

"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

[thescourged1]

A re-evaluation OF the Bush administration wouldn't be half-bad either >:(

[First_Salute]

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?"

[agitator]

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)

[lavaroise]

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.

[wafflehouse]

whaddya know? the next stupid bill Bush will sign..

[Maelstrom]

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[toddst]

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.

[AAABEST]

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.

[CJ Wolf]

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.

[4CJ]

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.