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MI: Restraining orders and guns shouldn't mix
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It may be an exaggeration to say that some Michigan lawmakers want to arm abusers.
But not by much.
Michigan's Legislature has approved a law, ostensibly aimed at standardizing the way concealed-weapons permits are issued, that also eliminates a state provision barring individuals subject to a personal protection order from obtaining such permits. |
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Millwright66
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One might agree with this concept but for a critical flaw. Thanks to "progressive thought" PFAs and ROs are issued by courts as a matter of routine, rather than necessity. Often, even in amicable divorce cases. A reality which may well mean the state "poisons the well" of human kindness existing prior to its order.
Particularly when one considers the "defendant" is often unaware of such an order being considered or offered opportunity to contest. Most often they only become aware when its a "fait accompli", and they're being compelled to surrender valuable personal property to the "tender mercy" of an arm of the state with no guarantee it will be preserved and maintained, and little recourse if it isn't. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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