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Originally Posted by Rochard
I own firearms myself, handguns and assault rifles. Americans have the right to own firearms.
The problem is anyone can get a firearm. Zimmerman is a great example - he was charged with assaulting a police office (the charge was dropped in court because he agreed to take an anger management class), and at one point he had a restraining order against him filed by his ex-wife. How was he allowed to be the neighborhood watch if had a restraining order against him, no less own a firearm?
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This is why it's my opinion that you are either trolling or not being 100% truthful about your motivations.
Although you sometimes go yumpy, your posts would indicate that you are a thoughtful guy.
But look at what you just said here.
Point: Americans have the right to own firearms
Counterpoint: The problem is anyone can get a firearm
You know that counterpoint is absolutely false. Every state has reasons for NOT granting a firearms license. Our state for example:
PEOPLE WHO CANNOT GET A GUN PERMIT
The law prohibits issuing a gun permit to illegal aliens, anyone under age 21, and anyone:
1. discharged from custody in the preceding 20 years after a finding of not guilty of a crime by reason of mental disease or defect;
2. confined by the probate court to a mental hospital in the 12 months before an application;
3. convicted of a serious juvenile offense;
4. subject to a firearm seizure order issued after notice and a hearing;
5. prohibited by federal law from possessing or shipping firearms because he or she was adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution (except in cases where the Treasury Department grants relief from this disability);
6. under a protective or restraining order for using or threatening to use force and in the case of possession, the person knows of the order and, if the order was issued in-state, was notified and given a hearing opportunity; or
7. convicted of a felony or any of 11 specified misdemeanors.
Disqualifying misdemeanors are:
1. criminally negligent homicide (excluding deaths caused by motor vehicles);
2. third-degree assault;
3. third-degree assault of a blind, elderly, pregnant, or mentally retarded person ;
4. second-degree threatening ;
5. first-degree reckless endangerment;
6. second-degree unlawful restraint;
7. first-degree riot ;
8. second-degree riot ;
9. inciting to riot ;
10. second-degree stalking ; and
11. first offense involving possession of (a) controlled or hallucinogenic substances (other than a narcotic substance or marijuana) or (b) less than four ounces of a cannabis-type substance.
Lastly, you are making absolute judgements about Zimmerman based upon your own prejudices. You may not like him for some reason but the reality is you are portraying him as some sort of chronically enraged person who has committed numerous crimes.
Over the course of his whole life he has had:
1. A speeding ticket
2. A domestic related restraining order which was also granted AGAINST his former fiancee.
3. Some sort of altercation with the police at the bar in 2005 for which everything was dropped in exchange for attending an alcohol education program.