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Thread: HB 1068
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September 25th, 2007, 10:49 PM #1
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HB 1068
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HB 1068
Other then the focus on "GUN" crime (rather then crime as a whole) and the potential to subsidize this effort with special taxes...I can't see any harm.
What do you men and ladies think?Last edited by RoyJackson; September 25th, 2007 at 10:53 PM.
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September 26th, 2007, 12:23 AM #2
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Re: HB 1068
I have reservations. When politicians talk about stuff like this, people have images of police taking gang members of the street corners, and throwing the book at them. I would have no problem with this.
I might have a problem throwing the book at a guy who plead guilty to a domestic violence misdemeanor 20 years ago, that he wasn't aware made him a felon-in-possession of a firearm, and having the book thrown at him.
I would have fewer problems with a "getting tough on criminal" approach if federal and state law didn't make so many things crimes that ought not to be crimes.
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September 26th, 2007, 09:01 PM #3
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Re: HB 1068
Overall this appears to be a means to help get more traction out of GCA '68, the law that makes possession of a firearms by a felon a Federal crime. If that is indeed its' purpose, I'm in favor of it! I get really PO'd when the local DAs plea bargain weapons chargees away so they can get a guilty on a reduced charge. I get even more PO'd at Federal Attorneys that are "too busy" to charge and prosecute weapons charges.
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