LOL, no doubt. St. Louis either I’m thinking, the better half and I found a gun next to our car as we were getting into it. We were lucky (?) enough to have a police car drive by at just the same moment so of course we (fools that we were) flagged it down and showed it to the policeman. We told him we would follow him to the station to make a report and that we had not disturbed it in case there were fingerprints. He picked it up by the grip, said “thanks” and walked back to his car and took off. I wonder who it ended up being planted on?

Same thing with a fat prescription drug bottle stuffed full of what looked like PCP soaked joints (a St. Louis fad for awhile)that ended up in our front yard after a police chase down our street one Saturday morning.

In retrospect I can’t believe we let a perfectly good criminal activity ‘kit’ get away from us so foolishly. We were younger and less wise in the ways of the world is my only excuse.

what about foreseeability of harm when you have an inherently dangerous instrument? But for, you setting in the chain of events in motion the harm would not have occurred.

Case in point is the owner of a vicious dog with known propensities in a neighborhood, uncaged with children around?

I have never seen our game of Rugby played in fancy dress like your American football teams, If it is anyone who is sissy then look at NFL Players?????

The Californian gardener who has owned his garden (and implicitly the gun) since before 1/1/91 would have to take no action other than buying a gun rack or opening an Ebay account to make a few bucks. If he is so inclined he can helpfully point the CA state police to his Ebay page, so they can gather the information and file it somewhere.

If the gun is newly acquired (as it would be in a recent real estate transaction) he brings it to the nearest federally licensed gun dealer (if he gets pulled over he can say that’s where he’s going) and gets it registered. Then as a good citizen he can show it to the police if he’s so inclined.

God bless America!

Byron,
This is where you miss the point. This is a case of rigid application of the law and zero tolerance. Both of these are memes pushed by fundamentalists and some conservatives. This is not about State interference in people’s lives, it is about the rigidity of certain political viewpoints.

Mespo any updates to Buddah’s suggested Latin translation?

I think that would be “Justicia est Iniquitas , Iniquitas est Justicia”, but honestly mespo’s Latin skills are much better than mine.

Sliced bread has nothing on the internet. However one must leave one’s brain’s crap detector in most skeptical mode, their is a lot of good stuff but also an enormous amount of rubbish.

“Justice is Injustice, Injustice is Justice.”

I as you are aware rely not solely on American History to make a decision. What is really nice is that almost everything is on the internet. There is so much to learn and so little time left. I have said before, if they had had this stuff when I was in college I would have never finished. I would probably be holed up in my house somewhere reading. As you can see this publication is repeat with hyperlinks.

With wordpress it keeps you in the same browser on the open browser. I have actually crashed computers because I open windows within windows. Walls without Limits. This is good stuff. Just like today, I am learning something new everyday. Thank you for you humor too.

A buddy of mine brought me his new computer to see. It was a new lenovo laptop which was pretty cool. Lot of memory in all aspects.

Any self respecting Texan would be honored to have that link. Now I just wonder what Government watch list I am on for opening it up? When I was in HIgh School during the wee early 70′s we had to read this crap book called 1984. Were they really off by that much?

The rifles were only meant as humor.

http://www.autoweapons.com/products/products.html

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Spartacus Educational

I just came across this on the net and it concerns me greatly. although this is in relation to Adolph Hitler the similarities between the way our present system of government is being run is alarming.

Here is a quote out of the thing and the link that follows:

“Before the crash, (Wall Street) 1.25 million people were unemployed in Germany. By the end of 1930 the figure had reached nearly 4 million. Even those in work suffered as many were only working part-time. With the drop in demand for labour, wages also fell and those with full-time work had to survive on lower incomes. Hitler, who was considered a fool in 1928 when he predicted economic disaster, was now seen in a different light. People began to say that if he was clever enough to predict the depression maybe he also knew how to solve it.”

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm

The comparisons in my mind are incredibly scary. After Obama serves his 4 what kind of passionate person will we have take office and serve the US?

Hang the humming bein high comrades.

If this was happening in Texas you would have never heard of it. Them English folks are sissy dudes. Now I know what Arnold meant when he said “Girly Men” or was that Sissy Dudes?

So should we be ware and warneth when the British are coming? One if by land, Two if by sea.

If I find a discarded shotgun on my property, there’s no crime. It’s on my land. I found it. It’s mine. Nyaah. I might immediately board the nearest Amtrak train (after loading the gun first- you’d have to be an idiot to walk around with an unloaded gun!) and travel to a gun store or pawnshop within my state. There I’d ask for advice on how to get it properly registered, or sold, or whatever. I’d at least consult the Ebay help pages for some pointers on how to deal with this situation.

In California, for example, the determining factor appears to be when you bought your house with that garden, and when the gun was originally buried there. If that gun was there in that garden the whole time, and you bought your house before 1/1/91, then you had possession of it since pre-registration days and so you are the proud owner of a legal, unregistered firearm. Otherwise you have to go to a gun dealer having a federal firearms license and get that sucker registered pronto before you can sell it or shoot it at tree trunks next to the neighbors’ yards. No need to get police involved at all, although I’m sure they wouldn’t mind pointing you toward locally licensed gun dealers within their districts to gin up local taxes.

Now if I found weed growing in my garden, either naturally, or via trespassers, ha ha ha… better not go to the cops with that in the U.S.

Going forward in reverse.

Do you know the word “entrapment”? How about “equity”? “Fairness” ring a bell?

It’s now apparent why you never conquered the people of my island, Ireland.

The gun/rifle seems to me to come under some public safety exception to strict liability or abating a public nuisance. I agree that Jury Nullification should come into play here. With what was stated, what he is guilty of is trying to save others harm. The fool suffer the wrath of the injust.

The English do have a strange way of enforcing its request to its citizens. I wonder if this case was farmed out to be tried by a Solicitor in private practice.