tacknosaddle t1_iu4lkyd wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:44 PM

Reply to comment by itsonlyastrongbuzz in Police confiscate loaded gun from 7-year-old at Dorchester school by rabblebowser

If you want to have this discussion maybe you should actually look at the laws for illegal gun possession and the penalties for subsequent offenses. You come off as foolish implying that there are no consequences or that it's a "slap on the wrist" when the minimum sentence jumps from 18 months to five years of incarceration?

You're the only one who is talking about this strawman who gets busted for illegal possession of a gun and is punished by being denied the ability to get a gun permit. Try bringing the conversation to a more realistic set of events.

itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_iu4pu4i wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:13 PM

> it's a "slap on the wrist" when the minimum sentence jumps from 18 months to five years of incarceration?

The banning of future ownership of firearm is the slap on the wrist, not the jail sentence.

They’ve proven they can get guns illegally so what use is telling them they can’t do it legally?

I never said the jail time was a slap on the wrist.

You’re soo primed to argue you’re missing the idea and jumping to refute points I never made.

tacknosaddle t1_iu4ra0w wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:22 PM

>You’re soo primed to argue you’re missing the idea and jumping to refute points I never made.

The reason you're being downvoted is because you're ignoring the real world punishments for ones that don't exist. My bringing those consequences up is not to "refute points" you made but to steer the subject to that real world.

So it's not me missing the idea or jumping to refute imaginary points, it's that you started with a ridiculous premise and were deservedly called out for it.