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Gun Control Reform Activism

Squinch

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3. No. Expulsion from the ability to play at a hobby isn't an appropriate penalty when you have

Reply to Loudly (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 01:28 PM

Aug 2013

facilitated the use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime. It should come with jail time in acknowledgment that the crime is partly the irresponsible gun owner's fault.

And if the gun was stolen, and the gun owner was unaware that his gun was stolen, that shouldn't make him immune to the penalty. The lack of knowledge about where his gun is constitutes evidence of a criminal irresponsibility.

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I might be missing it, but there is nothing in the article that says what Squinch Aug 2013 #1

Ineligibility for a FOID card might be a more appropriate penalty. Loudly Aug 2013 #2

No. Expulsion from the ability to play at a hobby isn't an appropriate penalty when you have Squinch Aug 2013 #3