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February 24th, 2018, 04:04 PM #1
Gun Confiscation Center Opens In Seattle
Ecclesiastes 10:2 ...........
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February 24th, 2018, 04:22 PM #2
Re: Gun Confiscation Center Opens In Seattle
"“If an individual’s made threats, if an individual has been volatile, destroyed property, if he's harmed animals, if he has a history of assaultive behavior, it’s evidence a judge can use for an ERPO,” said Anne Levinson, a retired Seattle Municipal Court Judge was instrumental in getting Ellie’s Place up and running."
A bit sexist, no?
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February 25th, 2018, 12:03 PM #3Grand Member
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Re: Gun Confiscation Center Opens In Seattle
“If an individual’s made threats, if an individual has been volatile, destroyed property, if he's harmed animals, if he has a history of assaultive behavior, it’s evidence a judge can use for an ERPO,”
Does this include Hunters? They most certainly harm animals.
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February 25th, 2018, 12:06 PM #4Grand Member
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Re: Gun Confiscation Center Opens In Seattle
Wonder what's next? Maybe something modeled on the Jamaican Gun Court?
Murder rates in Jamaica climbed five times since the introduction of Gun Court.
The Gun Court is the branch of the Jamaican judicial system that tries criminal cases involving firearms. The Court was established by Parliament in 1974 to combat rising gun violence, and empowered to try suspects in camera, without a jury. The Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, and Resident Magistrate's Courts function as Gun Courts whenever they hear firearms cases. There is also a Western Regional Gun Court in Montego Bay. Those convicted by the Gun Court are imprisoned in a dedicated prison compound at South Camp in Kingston. Until 1999, the Gun Court sessions were also held in the same facility.
The long sentences of the Gun Court and its restrictions on the rights of the accused have given rise to constitutional challenges, some of which have been appealed to the Privy Council in London. These cases have resulted in some modifications to the court, but have upheld it on the whole. The Gun Court system has also been the target of criticism because of its lengthy delay in hearing cases, and the continuing rise in gun violence since its adoption.
Although the Gun Court was intended to expedite cases, bringing defendants to trial within seven days,[17] defendants now often wait several years. The backlog was nearing 1000 cases in 1998,[17] and in the 2003-2004 court year, the High Court division carried forward 3,367 cases already on the docket, added 613 new cases, and concluded 462.[15] Senior Resident Magistrate Glenn Brown expressed dissatisfaction with the public prosecutors for taking too long to prepare cases, often because of difficulty in finding and bringing witnesses. Brown noted that "Seventy per cent of the persons who are before the courts have been here for an inordinately long period of time - three to four years."[24]
The Gun Court system has been put forth by gun ownership advocates as an example of a failed regime of gun control. In an essay in the National Review in 2001, Dave Kopel argued that "[t]he Gun Court took guns only out of the hands of Jamaica's law-abiding, leaving them at the mercy of the criminals and the state."[25] John R. Lott has argued that "gun-control laws have failed to deliver as promised," noting that the murder rate in Jamaica was lower before the introduction of stricter gun control: it rose from 11.5 to 19.5 per 100,000 between 1973 and 1977, and reached 41.7 per 100,000 in 1980.[26] By 2007 the rate had risen to 1,574 murders in the calendar year, or 59 per 100,000 inhabitants.[27]
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February 25th, 2018, 12:10 PM #5
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February 25th, 2018, 12:18 PM #6
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February 26th, 2018, 08:39 PM #7
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February 27th, 2018, 12:03 AM #8Super Member
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February 27th, 2018, 12:06 AM #9
Re: Gun Confiscation Center Opens In Seattle
Rules are written in the stone,
Break the rules and you get no bones,
all you get is ridicule, laughter,
and a trip to the house of pain.
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February 27th, 2018, 02:43 AM #10
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