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Monday, August 25, 2014

Hey Criminals! Here's a Gun!!

Kill someone in Georgia lately? Molest a child there as well? Well, rest easy, friend. You can get your right back to own a gun! 

William Alvin Bishop paid for his crime – aggravated child molestation – with nine years in prison. But when he got out, he still wasn’t free. Because he is on Georgia’s sex offender registry, Bishop must notify his local sheriff of any change of address, which then is posted online with his photograph. He cannot live or work within 1,000 feet of a school, a church, a day-care center – any place where, in the expansive language of the state’s sex offender law, “minors congregate.”

He may, however, own a gun. 

Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles restored Bishop’s constitutional right to bear arms in 2012 despite the serious nature of his crime and his documented threat of additional violence. He is among a growing number of violent offenders who have received pardons that restore gun rights in recent years – and one of the seven from the sex offender registry.

Ground stood!

Thank goodness that Bishop's right to own a gun was preserved because you never know when he might need it against the federal government.

3 comments:

GuardDuck said...

What, your afraid of this guy being unsupervised in public with a gun - but you're otherwise fine with him being unsupervised in public?

Can you explain the logic in that? Either he is a danger, or he is not a danger - whatever tools he has access to is irrelevant to whether he is a danger.

Nikto said...

He cannot live or work within 1,000 feet of a school, a church, a day-care center – any place where, in the expansive language of the state’s sex offender law, “minors congregate.”

If this guy can't live or work near these places, does that also mean he cannot visit those places? The law appears to lump schools, day-care centers and churches into the same category.

If so, that means that this guy's first amendment right to assemble and freely exercise his religion have been permanently denied.

Yet somehow taking his second amendment right to own a gun is a step too far. Because shooting people dead at range is a far more difficult thing to do than molest children.

And a guy who has had all his basic rights removed would never feel any animosity toward the society that has made him into a pariah for the rest of his life. And he would never think of using a gun to gain entry into one of the places he's prevented to enter, shooting any armed but unsuspecting guards in the back before they could see the giant "P" for pedophile tattooed on his forehead. Oh, wait. He doesn't have that, does he?

Guard Duck, you totally miss the point...

GuardDuck said...

No Nikto, you totally miss the point....


If the guy is too dangerous to be allowed near children - WHY THE FUCK are you totally ok with the guy being allowed in public unescorted where the only way in hell you can 'protect' a child from him is to catch him AFTER HE RAPES AND KILLS ONE?????


The both of you are clueless morons.....