🚀 go-pugleaf

In dc.talk.guns, donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
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>I'd say you're looking at it backwards.  EVERYONE has a right to the
>instruments of effective self defense until they prove a danger to them-
>selves or others.  Also, I believe that those "sane" people who have
>gone crazy with guns usually would be prohibited from owning guns due to
>previous criminal offenses.  Purdy, the nut from the Stockton scoolyard
>who started the Assault Weapon crackdown, had a record of felonies plea-
>bargained down to misdemeanors.  The goof who shot Reagan had (a few

The rumor (i.e., forgot source) I had heard with Purdy was they had
cought him in a State Park shooting at trees.  He violently resisted
arrest and spent about a month in jail.  While in jail he tried to
commit suicide, and also threatened to to go on a killing spree upon
being released.  He was released, and then he did his number in Stockton.
The "Assault Weapon" thing came up as a result of the local political
folks (that were responsible for the policies that let him go) doing
their best to avert attention from their screw-ups.
Does anyone have any other version of this story, or more to add?  I'd
be interested in hearing more details.

>Personally, I'd say that a lot of crime in society today occurs because
>the cops are more interested in busting pot smokers than muggers/robbers...
>and violent criminals are not (figuratively speaking) nailed to the wall,
>the first time.

I agree 100% if you substitute "judicial system" or some other more general
term for "cops".  I think the police do their job OK for the most part.

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