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I question I ask and what so many fail to do is "If I was in this mans shoes, what would I do?” Do you allow your wife to live in fear and pray the police arri
by cmdrfred 10y ago
I question I ask and what so many fail to do is "If I was in this mans shoes, what would I do?”
Do you allow your wife to live in fear and pray the police arrive in time?
Or do you go ask your buddy down the street to loan you his pistol, show it to her in case she needs it, and let her know that she is protected?
I simply wasn't raised to be the first man and given the facts as stated by the previous poster don't see any other course of action (assuming he is not wealthy enough to move). How do you live with yourself if she ended up raped?
- iaw 10y agoThat was the same conclusion that I reached, it's easy to prescribe justice and solutions from a vacuum protected by law enforcement, but in that actual situation I don't think I could've taken different actions from him.
- 16bytes 10y agoThere's a lot of if's here. My only point is that it didn't sound like an obvious overreach by prosecution. Would I risk gun ownership if I thought my family was in imminent danger? Without question. I would have even done so even if I risked significant jail time. But here, it's not just "borrowing" a firearm from a friend, it was an illegal purchase. Did this person look into restoring their gun-rights due to extenuating circumstances? Was justice served? Hard to said because, as I said, we don't have all of the information. But it's also hard to say that somebody convicted of felon in possession of a firearm, who was in fact both a felon and in possession of a firearm, was an abuse of the legal system.