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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: capt. apathy on March 05, 2003, 10:17:11 AM
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Mr. Ronald Dixon of Brooklyn,
NY, "was upstairs, in bed, when he heard a noise in the
hallway. Half asleep, he opened his eyes and saw a man at the
top of the stairs heading toward the bedroom of Mr. Dixon's
2-year-old son, Kyle. That was enough for the father. He
grabbed a 9-millimeter pistol that he kept in a closet,
walked toward the man and asked what he was doing there. This
man, Mr. Dixon said, ran at him, screaming. That's when he
pulled the trigger. He shot the intruder twice, wounding him
seriously but not mortally."
Now, 27-year-old Mr. Dixon is your basic "straight arrow," a
Navy veteran who works two jobs -- 80 hours a week -- as a
computer specialist to provide for his family, including two
small children. The man accused of being the intruder, Ivan
Thompson, 40, is a career criminal with a long record of
burglaries and other crimes. If convicted this time, he
could be locked away for a long, long time.
Case closed, right? Not quite.
Mr. Dixon had purchased his gun legally when he lived in
Florida. He had just recently moved to Brooklyn, and was smack
dab in the middle of running through all the hoops and jumping
through all the rings -- and there are a LOT of them -- to get
his gun registered in New York.
But the registration process wasn't yet complete when he used
his gun to defend his family. And Mr. Dixon lives in a borough
whose district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, "considers the
prosecution of illegal-gun charges a supreme virtue. Mr. Hynes
wants Mr. Dixon to do jail time... If convicted of the
misdemeanor charge against him, Mr. Dixon could get as much as
a year. Mr. Hynes is offering a plea bargain that would
involve four weekends, tops, on Rikers Island." (Mr. Dixon works weekends {and just about every other day as well} and would lose at least one of his jobs if he eccepts the deal)
You read that right. Mr. Dixon is facing up to a year on RIKERS
ISLAND (the same prison holding the guy he shot) if he doesn't accept the "plea bargain" from District Attorney Hynes and plead GUILTY on a gun possession charge, for a gun he had purchased legally and was in the process of making legal in New York. And if he's found guilty, his permanent record could keep him from obtaining work in his field.
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this sucks so bad
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This story is like 2 months old.
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Originally posted by ra
This story is like 2 months old.
Anything happen with it?
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Moral of the story: Why the hell would anyone want to leave Florida for New York?
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Originally posted by AKIron
Moral of the story: Why the hell would anyone want to leave Florida for New York?
Moral of the story: "Why the hell would you bring a gun to a liberal state like NY where private ownership makes you guilty before proven innocent?". Its kinda like walking into a bar with a loaded weapon, its illegal (in this state) so you just don't do it! He should have sold the weapon before moving, its less hassle than the red tape you have to put up with in a state like NY..where criminals have guns but victims do not.
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Rip, what if he had sold it before moving there? Did you forget what he used it for?
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Originally posted by AKIron
Rip, what if he had sold it before moving there? Did you forget what he used it for?
Yes, but lets weigh the odds...if attacked, hes a victim...if he uses the gun in self defense, he's guilty of crime (In the twisted New York Judges minds).
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Rip, you're only strenthening my case for staying in Florida. ;)
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Yes, but lets weigh the odds...if attacked, he's dead ..if he uses the gun in self defense, he's charged with a crime.
better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6
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Can't argue with that, although the intruder was unarmed, John. A baseball bat works fine in that situation. ;)
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this intruder happened to be unarmed. no guarantee the next one would have been.
in a society where 1/2 to 2 hour response times for police are not at all uncommon, IMO a few more burglars carried out on stretchers would do a lot more to lower the break-in rate than all the legislation in the world.
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we have pretty fast response time in Seattle, tho even 10 minutes is an eternity when some toejamhead is climbing in your window.
a couple years ago, some addict dopehead found a way into the apartment (security door, HA) where I live in Ballard. I guess a previous tennant in the building sold drugs and this amazinhunk went door to door pounding and yelling for the guy to come out. he started pounding on my door demanding that the dealer dude came out. I told him thru a locked door to get lost and he yelled, 'or what are you calling the police?' a simple 'no' combined with the racking of my 870 12 guage convinced him to leave.