Since it seems that we are all in agreement that what we need is enforcement of existing laws rather than new gun laws, where are we when Buster Badguy is at his preliminary hearing and the gun charge is dropped?
Think of the media covering a bunch of NRA members at a courthouse carrying signs wanting someone punished for misusing a gun.
There is a section of Calif. law (PC484.1) that says it is a crime to provide false info to a pawnbroker in order to receive cash. YOU CAN"T BELIEVE how hard it is for me to get 484.1 charged against suspects who pawn stolen property even though we make them verbaly state that the property is theirs, sign an affidavit of ownership, and leave a fingerprint.
Yet, when it comes to my getting that charge, I almost always have to risk jail myself in denying the property for seizure unless I am named an additional victim.
Surely, some NRA members must be retired or have enough time to go make a nuisance at the courthouse before Junior's gun charge is bargained away.
Think of the media covering a bunch of NRA members at a courthouse carrying signs wanting someone punished for misusing a gun.
There is a section of Calif. law (PC484.1) that says it is a crime to provide false info to a pawnbroker in order to receive cash. YOU CAN"T BELIEVE how hard it is for me to get 484.1 charged against suspects who pawn stolen property even though we make them verbaly state that the property is theirs, sign an affidavit of ownership, and leave a fingerprint.
Yet, when it comes to my getting that charge, I almost always have to risk jail myself in denying the property for seizure unless I am named an additional victim.
Surely, some NRA members must be retired or have enough time to go make a nuisance at the courthouse before Junior's gun charge is bargained away.