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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I don't know if I was clear in that thread. But what seperated that guy from a guy defending his home is that he became an armed vigilante, and I really think that makes him very dangerous. He was the guy that literally took a controllable situation and spun it right out of control.
I don't view him as a hero.
I don't know if we have to have degrees of violent crimes as part of the sentencing structure. But I was happy that there was a punative punishment component for this guy, he was stupid and angry and armed and that to me is a dangerous combination.
But was it premediated and planned, probably not.
However if I remember right his handgun was registered, but I could be wrong about that, and maybe that should be the differeence.
The long gun registry was next to worthless, and replicated other systems that were in place, and really didn't address the problem of violent gun grime especially with un registered weapons.
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I don't know all of the facts in the case or anything. I just know that if someone breaks into a house and you shoot them you shouldn't be sentenced in the same vein as a guy rolling around doing drive-by shootings.
Anyway, I'm not going to bother arguing about the abolition of the gun registry. It seems counter-intuitive, but it is what it is.