Committee approves gun rights bill

[ericire12]

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2009/01/21/news/wyoming/17c614b7c081aa198725754400021c61.txt

CHEYENNE -- A bill that would require Wyoming judges to warn defendants that they would lose their federal gun rights by pleading guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence charges received preliminary approval in the state Senate on Monday.

The Senate unanimously approved Senate File 70, sponsored by Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander. The bill would also classify misdemeanor domestic violence as a serious offense requiring defendants to have lawyers.

Speaking in favor of the bill at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier Monday, Case said, "We still have a situation in the United States of America where you can lose a constitutional right, the Second Amendment, for a misdemeanor crime."

Congress in 1996 expanded the law that bans convicted felons from owning guns to apply to people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.

[Thanos]

Maybe we should make it a felony to hit your wife or husband...

Just thinking outloud.

[alfsauve]

Or maybe just a felony to "assault" anyone. 

[TAB]

Maybe we should make it a felony to hit your wife or husband...

Just thinking outloud.

I'm ok with that.

[Rob10ring]

Maybe we should make it a felony to hit your wife or husband...

Just thinking outloud.

It sounds OK, until someone is convicted of a felony for spanking their kid.

[Sponsor]

[Thanos]

It sounds OK, until someone is convicted of a felony for spanking their kid.

let's not get too carried away.

[brosometal]

I don't know.  Some folks just need a beatin'.  

I have worked in several bars in a college town and have notice an increase in young folk who don't know proper social exchange.  They are the product of a family (or lack thereof) that failed to instill both common sense and courtesy.  Mom and Dad may have spared the rod, but life will oblige them eventually.

Domestic violence, on on the other hand, is a sticky wicket.  I have personally seen a friend get a ride and a couple of bracelets for the privilege of having his much smaller but rather feisty girlfriend beat him with various objects.  Neighbors hear her screaming and call the fuzz (takin' it back to the '70s) and all of a sudden I'm collecting bail $$$.  Some things aren't so cut and dried.

Rant off.  I return your thread to its previous state.

[tombogan03884]

Seems like a good idea, but I agree with Broso, I've seen the same sort of thing, guy hauled away when he SHOULD have leveled the psycho bitch, but didn't. I've known people who got arrested for slapping their kid on the butt when the kid NEEDE to have her butt slapped.

[Rob10ring]

let's not get too carried away.

I'm in California. If there is any place where the politicos, judges and hippy whiners are going to get carried away, it'll be here.

[deamonpi]

broso's right we don't need another easily misconstrued law just because we have a lot of idiots roaming the streets.