l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 May 12, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Are you a blind person living in New Jersey? Well, according to your police
there, they think because you are blind you shouldn’t be allowed to have
your Constitutional right to bear arms. This is exactly what they told a
Rockaway man over four years ago. But he’s had the last laugh.
Steven Hopler, 49, lost his sight in an accident but that never stopped him
from his hobby of collecting and shooting firearms. Four years ago, however,
he had an accident and shot himself in the leg. When police responded they
decided he was “a danger” and confiscated his firearms without a court
order or any legal standing.
It has taken him four years of legal battles, but he’s finally won. This
month a court ordered the Rockaway police to return Mr. Hopler’s gun
collection saying that his disability did not eliminate his Constitutional
rights as prescribed in the Second Amendment.
Hopler celebrated his victory saying it wasn’t about “power,” it was
about “freedom.”
Prosecutors have said they will not file any appeals.
Unfortunately, while this victory is sweet for lovers of freedom everywhere,
it is too typical of the growing arrogance of our police forces across the
country, those arms of the state that think they have the power to decide if
you should be allowed to have any rights.
From arresting people because they are video recording them in public, to
attaching tracking devices to citizen’s cars, to those odious random
traffic stops without cause, police are becoming an oppressive force in
America today, not enforcers of the law.
And as these “public servants” go about harassing citizens, heaping
nuisance traffic fines on them to raise money for the government, they are
allowing dug dealers to roam free and illegals to their law-breaking
druthers.
This country is going in the wrong direction from top to bottom. We may be
the last American generation that remembers freedom and liberty… especially
if Democrats have any say in the matter. | P*********0
发帖数: 4321 | 2 Yeah he's free to shoot all of his limbs.
What a retard.
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: May 12, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
: Are you a blind person living in New Jersey? Well, according to your police
: there, they think because you are blind you shouldn’t be allowed to have
: your Constitutional right to bear arms. This is exactly what they told a
: Rockaway man over four years ago. But he’s had the last laugh.
: Steven Hopler, 49, lost his sight in an accident but that never stopped him
: from his hobby of collecting and shooting firearms. Four years ago, however,
: he had an accident and shot himself in the leg. When police responded they
: decided he was “a danger” and confiscated his firearms without a court
: order or any legal standing.
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