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Greekone32
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I am a guy who was falsley accused 29 years ago and have
lost my gun rights in a town that has high crime . . .I
should be allowed to get my rights back after 29 years of CLEAN LIFE . . .How do I protect my family??? Why should I not have a gun?
Lawrence
lost my gun rights in a town that has high crime . . .I
should be allowed to get my rights back after 29 years of CLEAN LIFE . . .How do I protect my family??? Why should I not have a gun?
Lawrence
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By the by, how is O?
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You should.
The reason why you don't ?
A tyrannical government, coupled with a population of man-cowards.
Because of the restriction on your owning a gun, this type of event can never happen.
You can call an attorney and attempt to get your felony expunged. If you are successful in doing so, society will be safe with you possessing a firearm. Without the paper, however, we are unsafe.
Good luck.
Don
Edit:
I apologize for the flippancy. This question comes up quite a bit.
Locally, it cost about $ 5,000 to get a felony conviction expunged. It obviously depends upon the nature of the crime, and there are crimes that are typically ineligible. Typically, however, probably depends upon how much one is willing to pay a lawyer.
Brad Steele
I am a guy who was falsley accused 29 years ago and have
lost my gun rights in a town that has high crime . . .I
should be allowed to get my rights back after 29 years of CLEAN LIFE . . .How do I protect my family??? Why should I not have a gun?
Lawrence
Start with falsely accused. Can I assume you fought it valiantly but lost the case for one of a hundred reasons?
McManus was right on point. It will take a lot of legal work and the blessings of the judicial system and the State Attorney General's office to get your 2nd Amendment rights back. On the bright side, it can be done. On the dark side, without knowing what the entire case is, I nor anyone else can do more than speculate and point you in the direction of your local BAR association.
I wish you best of luck on an uphill path.
COB
falsley accused
You said accused not convicted.
BIG difference, please clarify.
You cannot have a gun because if you were allowed to have one you may decide to kill four police officers in a coffee shop.
Because of the restriction on your owning a gun, this type of event can never happen.
Nice that laws restricting gun ownership[B)] do such a wonderful job of protecting from such scenarios.
We'd have a whole lot less repeat offenders if that were the case. I cannot see how the Gov't has gotten away with this crap for so long. An Ex-Felon would be insane to live in the area I live in (if you spent any time outdoors)...everyone carries a gun in the woods around here. The gov't should not be infringing upon our God given rights.[V]...but until we get the laws changed, we must abide by them.
In other words.we petition government for the means to CONTROL that government.
Rightttttttt.got it.
You should be able to own a gun. If you have been deemed safe to be released amongst society, you should have ALL of your rights restored after your debt to society has been paid.
Never thought of it quite like that, but if they are not safe enough to be trusted with a gun then they don't need to be roaming free to begin with. There is no justification for allowing a non violent felon who has served his time to walk free and prohibit them from possessing firearms while we allow convicted rapist to walk around free carrying in possession of thier instrument of crime.
I am a guy who was falsley accused 29 years ago and have
lost my gun rights in a town that has high crime . . .I
should be allowed to get my rights back after 29 years of CLEAN LIFE . . .How do I protect my family??? Why should I not have a gun?
Lawrence
I have always been a fan of the medieval flail. Louisville sluggers, swords and shields, and nunchucks are fine as well. A bow and arrow with broadheads would work wonders, as would a crossbow or blackpowder revolver.
TORT37
If you were actually guilty of a violent crime, then society has a right to never have to hand you a gun with societies blessing. Meaning that if you were to shoot me or one of my family, at least it would not be with a gun that society said you could have. In fact, if a violent criminal had a legal right to own a firearm and DID shoot a loved one of mine, I would not even be able to have you prosecuted/punished because of your gun ownership. The best I could hope for is that the court would punish you for your criminal actions. In many cases of a convicted felon committing a crime with a firearm, since that felon cannot legally own a firearm, at the very least that felon gets 10 or so years in prison for the illegal possession of a firearm. If we went by the "absolutely no gun control laws" as preached by many here, that could never happen.
I know, I know, the radicals here will just laugh and say that if a violent criminal harms one of my loved ones I should be the one to go out and kill that criminal. So OK in theory to me but in reality if I did that I would probably end up in prison and my loved ones still alive would suffer for that. Or, I could even come out on the losing end of my vendetta and I and my loved ones would also suffer. If we all lived in the jungle with no rules, that is an option I would accept. But we live in a society of laws so I would let the police and courts (which my taxes pay for) handle it for me.
You want and DEMAND the ability to add ten years to a prison sentence becuase the animal killed a loved one with a GUN. Can you not see the INSANITY of that ?
Make the sentence HARSH for murder..and END the insane business of adding a dozen different nonsense charges...designed to trap and hold INNOCENT people....