Byron Quick
Moderator In Memoriam
Who we kidding anyway, he behaves himself, he'll be out on parole in three years, not eight.
He might if it was a state prosecution but the article quoted the federal prosecutor of his case. Federal time means what? You do about 90% of your sentence unless you can rat someone else out to them on a fairly severe basis? Sure hope that none of our Missouri members are friends of his and didn't know about his past.
Same thing with the comment about the length of sentence and that part of the state. Nope. Federal sentencing guidelines are nationwide.
The reason that no felons are getting their rights restored is that anti-gun Senators and Congressmen are blocking the government from applying the applicable lawful procedures upon petition by the felons. That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.
Burglary? I think it's a darn shame that the owner of the building burglarized didn't kill him on the spot. Shame that lethal boobytraps are illegal.
But the mindset about felons losing their rights is playing right into our enemies hands. Might need to check out just what all is a felony, folks.
Here in Georgia, it was a felony until just a few years ago to engage in oral sex acts with your wife. There was at least one man doing a twenty year sentence for the same when the courts finally ruled the law unconstitutional after a couple of centuries. I don't know if he got out then or not. How many of you think it should be a felony for him to own a firearm? Just to add icing on the cake: how'd he get arrested and convicted of a crime that occurred in his bedroom? Well, it seemed him and his wife were getting a divorce... For that matter, just think how many unconvicted felons owning firearms there were running around the state of Georgia before that law was overturned? 80% of the adults in the state? More? Shhh, if the anti's find out they may try to ram a bill through Congress to ban everyone in the state of Georgia from owning firearms. You might better look through your own state's penal code rather carefully. There's still some wacky stuff on the books from centuries ago in some states. Some of that wacky stuff are felonies. Some of you are probably unconvicted felons and don't know it.