NY Times Notes Absolute Worst in Story “Felons Finding It Easy to Regain Gun Rights”
This week The New York Times offered a story titled, “Felons Finding It Easy to Regain Gun Rights,” which attempted to argue that lives could have been saved had it not been for laws that allow convicted felons to regain gun rights.
This article offers the argument that a murder occurred because of a judge’s ruling. The paper begins with a story involving Erik Zettergren who reportedly shot Jason Robinson, after finding Robinson and Zettergren’s girlfriend in bed together. This passage first didn’t make it clear if Robinson had raped Zettergren’s girlfriend, as both had previously passed out after heavy drinking. What is made clear is that Zettergren shot Robinson. The story noted:
But for a judge’s ruling two months before, it would probably never have happened.
The lack of facts make this logic less than easy to follow, and second let’s assume that Zettergren didn’t have a gun. Perhaps he should not have had his rights restored, but couldn’t he have easily used a bat, knife, club or other item to kill Robinson. The story suggests that he was a crime involving some blood lust, so does lack of gun really stop it as the story implies?
It is noted later in this same story that “The Times examined hundreds of restoration cases in several states,” and while it finds examples where felons did do bad things after getting their guns back it should be noted it is very hard to prove how many felons don’t do bad things.
The irony here is that many call for giving felons a second chance. Of course that is for things that liberals tend to approve of, and since guns isn’t one of those things, it is easy enough to dismiss it.
Grass Roots North Carolina for Firearms Education: Liberal Media Wants to Make Felons of Gun Owners
From the Grass Roots North Carolina for Firearms Education:
Media gun-grabbers are trying to increase the odds that you will by blitzing HB 650, “Amend Various Gun Laws/ Castle Doctrine”
A coordinated effort is underway by the North Carolina liberal media to make you a felon … by stripping out language from HB 650 – “Amend Various Gun Laws/ Castle Doctrine” that would enable concealed handgun permit-holders to lawfully keep a firearm locked in a vehicle on educational property.
You just might become a FELON if: Read more
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Notes Bias in Second Amendments Rights
Should a convicted felon be barred for life from owning a gun? At first thought the answer might be yes, but given that many felonies could involve non-violent crimes, it is fair that even decades later a person would still be stripped of his or her Constitutional Rights, namely those protected by the Second Amendment?
This debate was noted in a blog post by Bruce Vielmetti of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Poss offered how Assistant Public Defender William Louis Poss, of Black River Falls, argued “that states can’t deny a fundamental right completely, for life, without the law passing strict scrutiny.”
This is something that should be watched closely, because no doubt anti-gun groups will try to find examples of where a small handful of convicted felons used guns in violent crimes – yet fail to note that hundreds of thousands of others have had their rights stripped for non-violent crimes they may have committed years in the past. It is an irony, because liberals tend to believe that even hardened criminals can be rehabilitated and serve a meaningful role in society – but yet would strip even non-violent offenders of key Constitutional Rights. Something to think about.
Seatte Area Man Convicted for Wife’s Gun
Luke T. Groves of Bremerton, Wash., will be headed to jail for first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. Groves had turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time reports Seattle PI. As we previously reported Groves had been previously convicted of breaking into a school in 1990. What is disturbing about this case is that it was actually Groves who had called the police for help. Seattle PI notes:
“Groves called police in late November 2008 after he returned home to find a broken window in his Hewitt Avenue house. He says he told officers that his wife owned a rifle and handgun.”
He now faces 31 to 41 months in prison. He will be sentenced January 29. We wish our best to the Groves family.
Washington Man Sticks to His Guns
When the liberals yell about felons not having guns, they should read about Luke Travis Groves. While he is indeed a “convicted felon,” he was never told he couldn’t be in possession of firearms – but interestingly he’s in jail because his house was broken into, and the police found that his wife owned two firearms! This story, which is reported by SeattlePI.com offers insight on the issue of felons and firearms, and it is one we encourage our readers to check out.
