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I've gone round and round on this issue before. Someone once asked me (facetiously I think): So if they were packing ethnic folks into the boxcars would you point out the apartment full of ethnics that they'd missed?
After giving it some thought I replied (and my reply would be the same today): If I knew absolutely that the ethnics in the apartment had worked to get the 'boxcar' laws passed, then yes I would.
The same holds true for the anti-gunners. They work as hard as they can to create labarynthine laws with draconian punishments, attempting make ordinary gun-owners into criminals, so when they break those same laws that they have been screeching for I am perfectly happy to see them locked up in federal prison for a decade or two.
My Buddhist sister would tell me that I am not being compassionate, and I agree comletely, but it is very personally satisfying to watch someone get hoist on their own petard and listen to their cries of "But I'm not a criminal! I didn't do anything wrong!" (By which, of course, they mean they violated a malum prohibitum law.)
I believe it was George McGovern who went bankrupt attempting to run a Bed & Breakfast after he left the Senate, and was quoted as saying "If I knew what effect those laws I was passing had on businessmen, I would have never have voted for them." But these jackasses don't even admit that they did something illegal; they maintain that their 'intent' was pure, therefore they are innocent of wrongdoing, and I personally would love to see them go through the unremitting hell that they and their ilk have called down on true innocents like Red's.
Jul 19, 2007, 10:56:00 PM
Posted to Not What I Would Have Done