Results 21 to 22 of 22
Thread: The existing laws work in PA...
-
March 17th, 2013, 08:07 PM #21Senior Member
- Join Date
- Mar 2012
- Location
-
SEPA,
Pennsylvania
(Lancaster County) - Age
- 42
- Posts
- 383
- Rep Power
- 221649
Re: The existing laws work in PA...
This is my opinion:
Criminals who are freed from jail should have all of their rights restored.
The ones who upon leaving jail that decide to continue a life of crime are going to get guns illegally anyway. No law is going to prevent that from happening.
So, who's being punished by the current laws as written? The people who upon leaving jail that want to be honest law abiding citizens. They now have no way of efficiently protecting themselves or their families from harm because they want to abide by the law.
And the real criminals who typically leave jail just to continue their life of crime are usually the people that the criminal justice system is way to lenient on to begin with. We have way too many feel good/supposedly preventative laws floating around out there. IMO all of the BS feel good laws should be removed. Then focus needs to be put on enforcing the laws that actually infringe upon others rights with stricter/harsher sentences and no BS options to plea down to a lesser charge.
-
March 17th, 2013, 09:03 PM #22
Re: The existing laws work in PA...
Careful phrasing is important. "We" are not a fungible group, "our" rights vary by the person. Imprisoning my neighbor because he robbed a bank is not an infringement of "our" freedom, for example. "My" rights and "your" rights are not necessarily going to be identical, because you might be a citizen while I might be an illegal alien, I might be an adult and you might be a minor, I might be an 18 year old boy required to register for selective service, you might not be.
"The People" consists of the population at large, and some of them belong in jail, other individuals may be OK to roam free with some restrictions. They have to have taken affirmative action, commit willful bad acts, to forfeit the rights that The People in general have.
I distinguish between any Congressional act that infringes the rights of the People at large, and acts that punish irresponsible conduct or distinguish between responsible citizens and irresponsible citizens. It's what we do in our own lives, if we choose not to lend money to a sibling who never paid us back the last time, or we refuse to let our kid go to a party at Bob's house because we didn't like what happened the last time at Bob's house. We're not individually bound by the Constitution, of course, but the Constitution was written by and for human beings, and humans learn from experience. Usually.
There is no magic wand that takes an irresponsible person and transforms him into a trustworthy person at the expiration of a prison sentence or parole or probation, they often remain the untrustworthy person who thought they could get away with bad acts. Sometimes, they reform, and they are given a chance to persuade a judge of that fact. Mostly, they don't, not in the very short term. Certainly, nobody is in prison one day and indistinguishable from responsible citizens the next, reform doesn't come from crossing a day off of a calendar.Attorney Phil Kline, AKA gunlawyer001@gmail.com
Ce sac n'est pas un jouet.
Similar Threads
-
Pigs Fly: CeaseFirePA Urges Prosecutors To Enforce Existing Laws
By Devrbd in forum PennsylvaniaReplies: 10Last Post: May 2nd, 2011, 04:52 PM -
Proof the state doesnt enforce existing gun laws...
By mikepro8 in forum GeneralReplies: 1Last Post: March 11th, 2009, 04:57 PM -
Gun laws really work in Philly
By schr8er2000 in forum GeneralReplies: 1Last Post: December 3rd, 2008, 07:31 AM -
DC gun laws don't work...
By PisnNapalm in forum GeneralReplies: 3Last Post: March 27th, 2008, 06:55 PM
Bookmarks