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Posted on 07/05/2023 5:37:58 AM PDT by marktwain
On June 28, 2023, Judge Carlton W. Reeves, District Judge in the Southern District of Mississippi and Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, issued an order dismissing the case against Jessie Bullock for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Mr. Bullock was convicted of aggravated assault and manslaughter in 1992. He served about 15 years in prison. In 2015 Mr. Bullock was convicted of fleeing law enforcement and attempted aggravated assault of a police officer. He served five years of probation. Bullock was charged with knowingly possessing a firearm in May of 2018, although for various reasons, the charge was not arraigned until October 2019. In June of 2022, the Supreme Court issued the Bruen decision, upholding its rulings in Heller, McDonald, and Caetano. Mr. Bullock argued the Bruen decision rendered the ban on felons in possession invalid in his case.
Judge Reeves spends pages showing how and why he disagrees with the Supreme Court. He presents several straw man arguments. Many courts have upheld the federal ban on the possession of firearms by felons in the last 85 years. The Supreme Court used historical records to determine what the Second Amendment means, not the desire of legislatures or of judges. Judge Reeves does not like this approach, but he recognized it as required by the Supreme Court. Judge Reeves suggested he appoint a historian to research the historical record.
Both parties in the case refused the suggestion. In Bruen, the burden is clear. Because of the text and history of the Second Amendment, it is the burden of the government to show a particular restriction on the rights protected by the Second Amendment was accepted and widely practiced at the time the Second Amendment was ratified.
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Until 1968, there was no federal law prohibiting felons from possessing a firearm.
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If someone is not suitable to return to society with all of their rights then keep them in prison. But once they’ve done their time then let them go. Period.
Is this like a bill of attainder?
“on April 28, 2010, Reeves was nominated by President Barack Obama to fill a seat on the United States”
That says it all.
I’d be totally against this if the whole stupid voting restoration BS hadn’t started. If you can vote again, you can keep a gun. What’s good for the goose and all.
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In FL they had such a problem with crack cocaine, they made possession of any amount a felony. That means anyone who had a short addiction to it and got caught with $20 worth became a felon for life and lost 2nd amendment right.
Many millions have a non-violent felony conviction from when they were young and stupid. Every state has some crimes that are non-violent and not very severe but are considered felonies.
The 2Amd makes no exceptions for convicted felons. What difference does that make? If convicted felons want guns convicted felons will get guns, legally or not. The only possible exceptions to RKBA are legally incarcerated convicts and insane people. That could come under the 13th’s treatment of involuntary servitude. The crime is in the inappropriate use of guns. If felons had legal possession of guns it would not increase murder and it would make tracing a gun found at a crime scene easier though the sharper criminals would still steal the guns they use.
I 100% agree with this statement!
If we as a society, are going to be the live-and-let-live society everyone claims we are, then why do we put labels on people and force them to wear that label forever?
Either they paid their price to society and should be allowed to fully reintegrate or (if they are still a danger to society) keep them locked up!
By labeling and limiting them with that forever “FELON” label, our “justice” system becomes the perpetual punishment machine...even punishing them for things they MAY do or COULD do tomorrow. When these ex-prisoners can’t get a decent job or work at many of the highest-paying jobs because they have Federal dollars and therefore no felons are allowed to work there...they push these people back into the easy money life they were doing before! Our “justice” system becomes the primary driver for all the recidivism which they claim to hate and want to end!
Praise Heavenly Father, in Sweet Jesus Name 🙏 💯💖
Everyone has the God given right to defend themselves.
If dangerous. Then they need to be locked away.
If you are free, you must be free to defend yourself too.
Ditto that! Everything you said!
Shuck guys, Matt Dillon always gave the outlaws back their guns when he released them.
exactly. I am unclear as to how you can remove a person's rights after they have served their time. Either they are 'free' or they are not.
I agree, right to bear arms is thrown into charges and a “felony” being the basis. Look all of you that think FELONY even means anything anymore....I experienced a “felony” when I had two drivers license , one out of Massachusetts and the other an in state Florida (mandated if you owned property) I had a ticket from Washington state that was PAID! Posted on computer that I ignored it....Year 1988 ....I get pulled over in Pasco county Florida and am informed my license was suspended from Washington state ...I NEVER HAD ONE OUT OF Washington state (permanent party Army at Ft. Lewis) took two years and I still drove ...next time they pulled me over on U.S. 19 (Port Richey length only) I was charged with a felony. I fought it and won but took over 3 years....felony I had to pay extra. Moral of the story?....never ask permission for a RIGHT
Gotta keep the mass shooting numbers up.
We out to rent a house for thus guy right across from the judge’s home.
That’s because it was representative of the reality of the frontier
There are more shootings in Chicago each weekend than there ever were in Dodge City.
True and far different population levels
And they did indeed return guns to charged or jailed folks upon release
I’m a serious student of the old west and traveled it extensively since the 1960s
It’s a hobby I actually map these places to my enjoyment lol
You want to know the details on the Lincoln county war
Or Commanches/Kiowa versus Texas Rangers
Or Fanny Kelly captivity by the Oglalla
Etc
I’m your guy
There was a lawlessness in territories and some towns we can’t fathom
And it was indeed settled by violence
And vigilantism was often the only recourse with scant resources otherwise
This notion promoted here at times that it’s worse now is a canard
No offense
It was more about resources and wild Indians and booze
Drinking to excess was simply more tolerated then
1870s dodge city was 179/100,000 murder rate
New Orleans recently was 59/100,000
Of course there is a lot of nuance to all this that can be chewed up
The west gun fight wise was no more violent really than Georgia or Ohio then
The murders or violent deaths proportionately have been going down relatively
for 200 years
Notwithstanding Indians and vigilantes and USA border stuff with Mexico where it got heated at times
A broader spectrum of culture settled stuff violently before now they call their lawyer
Our violence today is more concentrated in certain demographics
The south where I’m from whites kill each other more than anywhere else in America
It’s a tradition
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