Comments on: Not down with OOP

By: workinwifdakids

workinwifdakids — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:53:50 +0000

OK, love the post, of course, but – am I the only one who reads all the post titles first because they’re so hysterically funny? This is the best one in a long time!

By: johnx

johnx — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:10:15 +0000

orders of protection are the most horrendous example of taking people’s rights for little or no reason and judge swann in knoxville is more than happy to take away gun ownership rights of hundreds if not thousands of men a year (a few women, also). this terrible law needs to be changed.

By: Mikee

Mikee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:19:54 +0000

And amazingly enough, nobody in the Police Department or the Clerk of Court’s office has complained about having no mechanism to receive, inventory, maintain, store, or return firearms surrendered under this requirement….

There is a basic principal involved here – EFT. Easier for Them. It has been easier all these years for the authorities to ignore the issue, than to raise it and have more work, expense, liability, and risk.

I can’t imagine the nice people who take money for traffic tickets, usually behind bullet proof glass, would like to have to take possession of long guns and hand guns being turned in by potentially irate or actually violent people. Same goes for the police officer at the PD front desk. If somebody walks in with a shotgun or AR15 cradled in their arms, much mistaken actions can ensue – like shooting an innocent civilian.

So they handled it with EFT via silence – Easier for Them.

By: Madrocketscientist

Madrocketscientist — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:45:16 +0000

Here’s a trick. Say I want to kill or kidnap someone and I know they generally travel armed. I file a Protection Order using a false ID and get a judge to sign it. Once I know the order is served, I got about two weeks (probably) where my victim will be unarmed while away from the home (until the court date, when a judge will likely toss the order for lack of standing since I won’t be showing up).

Would the victims family have standing to argue against the amendment in court?