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bs, randy weaver is a criminal and a coward that hid behind his family rather than face up to his crimes. i agree that the marshalls and the fbi screwed up. but had weaver been a man and went to court the feds would not have been any where near his family.
Just out of curiosity, do you happen to know how much of our, the taxpayer's, money the government spent on surveillance of the Weaver property by federal marshals, before the marshals screwed up and shot the dog and Weaver’s son? Look it up.
You might
try to remember that the “crime†Weaver was accused of violating is simply and completely a
tax statute, not a criminal law. There is no illegality in owning the gun Weaver sold, absent the fact that a transfer tax was not applied to the sale.
Let’s try to think objectively here: We’re talking about a statute that also forbids putting a butt-stock on a pistol, effectively tripling the pistol’s size, because then it would be a “short-barreled rifle,†and thus highly illegal.
Weaver may in fact be a thoroughly detestable human being, but the law is objectively moronic, and unless we are robots, we should attempt to distinguish between laws that have some objective moral purpose, and laws that criminalize otherwise innocent behavior [that's as in non-directly-harmful to others] before we randomly label people “criminals and cowards.â€
Dex