So Sorry...Should have thought about this consequence before your committed your first felony...Once a violent or repeat criminal you don't get to smell gunpowder...Best punishment in the world...
The Law is the LAW...EXILE WORKS!!! But it works better if the difference between criminals and non-criminals is clear and enforced...Felony level crimes may not be a sufficient standard in non-violent offenses...I dont know the details,of Exile, or how the judges interpret them, but Violent people should lose their right to self defense...that's how it works....They carry guns to hurt others...unless we lock them up...end of rant
Greeeeeat. Prison rape as a punishment tool.
I am losing some of that gusto for Project Exile that I first had. The original concept was good but it sounds like -- as happens almost all the time -- it is being corrupted.
An excon possessing a gun is not in and of itself a moral wrong, and some of the people being charged did not so much possess a gun as they were found in the vicinity of a gun.
It is easier though to point out how the law should work than to examine the flaws in the convoluted system we have arrived at.
Punishment for crime should fit the crime. When a punishment is handed down, it should be carried out. When that punishment is finished, the punished should be given a clean bill and sent back into society as a free man. The only rememberance of his crime should be for the purpose of sentencing him if he is ever convicted of another crime.
funny that this is when they show the "Target Market" adds also,yah,I watch a little WWF once and awhile.....anyway,are they profiling with their advertising?are they saying that in this "market" lies the risk of the most offenders?
The problem is, the prisons are already
full of people whose only crime is the
cultivation, distribution, or use of
proscribed vegatation. As soon as
we realize that gun grabbers and
drug warriors are equally destructive
of freedom, the better off we will be.
No stories here of ex-felons as unarmed victims - those remain untold, I guess.
I think I see the problem: " ...firing a gun during a carjacking and served two years..."
If we stop treating people who threaten to kill others in order to take their property as if they were double-parking, we wouldn't have the crime problem that we do. Nothing will solve the problem of associating firearms-ownership with crime as long as such people are more likely to be found on the street than in prison.
If this jerk had been in prison where he belonged for his initial outrageous crime, anti-gunners would have a much harder time passing laws which result in prison for a woman posing nude with guns.
Despite the injustices outlined in the article, the greater injustice is to infringe my right to keep and bear arms. These sad tales will eventually help to identify the problem, but only if the laws are enforced. Selective enforcement just grants power to the government which it shouldn't have.
Under the Clintoon/Gore administration this could have included you.
It's funny how perceptions change in two years.
And a proud member of the Democratic party.
I can see it now. People who are registered republicans as a sign of excercising bad judgement. How about people who belong to a gun rights group?
The Soviets used a similar argument to lock opponents in mental institutions. The argument was that you had to be insane to oppose the state, therefore opposition to the state was proof of insanity and you were subject to long term corrective institutionalisation in a state psychiatric institution.
We are living in interesting times to say the least.
I still see no evidence that anyone not ALREADY a convicted felon has suffered as a result of EXILE. So what we are talking here is strictly ex-felons. Granted, some violent, some non-violent. Most of the examples given in sidebar represent violent/threatening behavior.
I would also add, roughly 66% of police officers KIA are shot by those who legally, cannot possess weapons under current laws.
Like all gov. programs, EXILE is (has been) getting out of control.
For any combat vets reading, as I have advised on a couple gun boards, if you are considering jumping on board the PTSD "gravy train" (as some call it), think twice! You may be inadvertantly surrendering your RKBA. Think me foolish? Read the Dept. of Veterans Affairs web page re:PTSD. Depending on your degree of disability, as measured by percent of disability, the symptoms a patient presents with may be grounds for an incompetency ruling. i.e. Mental defective-ineligible to possess firearms.
Fed Govt. - "When every citizen is an outlaw, no one will have guns."