"Better put that shit on layaway"

:fullofwin:

i forgot all grow ops have a big neon sign outside that says

"getcho weeed here, niggaz!"

Yes like they are walking into a local gun store and buy a box of ammo.

^Pretty much, and would be scared to pull suspicious one due to fear of potentially getting shot.

I've nothing against the spirit of the law which is to target the criminals.
But this law also had collateral damage. This is just one more example where the government sticks its hand where it doesn't belong.

There's a reason the Americans have a right to bear arms.
For that exact same reason, it's why it's taking Egypt so very long to throw out a corrupted non democratically elected dictator.
Just because it doesn't apply to me in the here and now, doesn't mean I like enabling the government to more power than it should be entitled to.


I think time is better spent closing loopholes and creating stricter penalties.

You know how in the papers it always says "known to police"?
It wouldn't be very hard for them to tail those people and arrest them for any number of infractions.

The real root of the problem is the expensive and bloated justice system.
- If it was easy to grab the known criminals
- If they wouldn't have so many loopholes for them to make trial a lengthy process
- If jail wasn't a revolving door.
- If the cost of keeping them wasn't so bad.



Imagine that every dealer, armed criminal and repeat offender got locked away and never to see light. We'd never have to deal with idiotic laws such as this.


All this does is add more burden to a system.
Not fix it.

^^ if only it was so easy to "fix" our justice system.

You have to remember that these lengthy processes are there to provide fair trials to everyone, not just to the criminals we want to get off the street, but also to prevent innocent people from being thrown in jail.

Things like tainted evidence that gets cases thrown out may seem like a loophole when a bad guy walks out innocent, but also prevents innocent people from being found guilty through planted evidence, etc.

Personally, I see no reason why someone would need an armoured car. And I don't really view this law as a slippery slope - leading to us going towards a Police State.