Jonesboro Murderer is free - should he be allowed to own a gun?

[Fletchette]

I am just wondering the how 2A purists feel about this guy, who murdered four little girls and a teacher, enjoying the same legal RKBA as you and I now that he is out. Would you have any qualms about him visiting your local gun shop?

I have qualms about him being alive and out of prison. This is not a Second Amendment issue. The Brady Campaign is using one wrong (letting him out) to institute a second wrong (gun control).

 

[Cosmoline]

No, its not. That's my point. Its only irrelevant when he has truly paid his debt. Society, and in particular, the surviving relatives, have to deal with the "relevance" of this issue on a daily basis.

Society doesn't make law, and society doesn't enforce law. I appreciate that relatives feel angry. That's fine. But as it stands now the guy got a JV conviction and that's the end of the story. He can't be retroactively punished now, at least by the law. If a relative wants to shoot him, fine. But that's got nothing to do with the legal question.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

Either you believe in the 2nd Amendment or you don't. The "right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." There is no "felony" clause. There is no "domestic violence" clause. No clause about teenage murderers screwing the legal system.

If you think this person should not have the right to own firearms, you have sided with the Brady Bunch and VPC on the gun control issue. You support gun bans. The only difference is the degree of the ban.

Kind of like the old joke of a man offering a woman $1,000,000 for sex. She says yes. He counters with a $10 offer, at which point she asks the man what he thinks she is, a whore? He says that has already been established and they were now just haggling over the price.

 

[gunsmith]

if it were my little sister


I don't believe I would be able to tolerate him breathing free air

 

[dustind]

And, if he is found with a gun, I want LE to have the ability to arrest his worthless backside and throw him in jail.

I do not see why guns should be involved any more than houses or cars. Guns should not be a punishment, time and money should be.

Banning him from owning guns would not make anyone any safer given he has no respect for guns laws as it is.

I agree with everyone saying he should not have been let out.

 

[stevelyn]

Jonesboro murderer free. Should he be allowed to own guns?


Absolutely not. He committed a violent crime against innocent multiple persons unjustly taking their lives because someone laughed at him. The little POS is a sociopath who will kill again given the chance and right set of circumstances.

He has no conscience. He can only be rehabilitated by having dirt shoveled on him. He should not be allow to possess a firearm, handtools or a plastic spork.

As far as him becoming a minister, I've seen more than one con hide behind a holy book as cover for their activities. I doubt this one will be any different.

 

[Mannlicher]

a moot point. Someone with a dead relative will shoot him, or should.

 

[TallPine]

SO MANY things are crimes to day

Speaking of such things... anyone know if the Klinton EO about not having more that two weeks food supply stored in your home is still in effect...?

 

[beerslurpy]

I wasnt aware EOs could establish a crime. I am also pretty sure the Mormons have been ignoring him, if what you say is true. Their religions require them to keep 2 years of food and water handy. Or so I heard.

And again, this is not a "should citizens have guns issue, it is a "should cold blooded murderers get out of jail at age 21" issue.