Supreme Court to hear "the bitch wouldn't shut up" defense for

[flamin lib]

Domestic abuse.

The Supreme Court Is Taking a Case That Could Let ‘Unintentional’ Domestic Abusers Own Guns

http://www.thetrace.org/2015/10/supreme-court-domestic-violence-misdemeanor-voisine-armstrong/

e Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a case about the gun rights of two men found to have committed domestic abuse in Maine. Central to the Justices’ eventual decision is this question: What kind of domestic abuse do you have to be convicted of to have your gun rights taken away?
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According to the documents submitted to the Supreme Court, Voisine (one of the petitioners) was charged with domestic violence in June 2003 after slapping his girlfriend while he was intoxicated. During the incident, his girlfriend had called 911 and told authorities that it was not the first time Voisine had hurt her. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor crime of simple assault, resulting in a conviction. Authorities didn’t learn that Voisine owned a gun until 2009, after a stranger reported to the police that Voisine had killed a bald eagle with a rifle. (The Wall Street Journal notes that Voisine may have been the first person to kill one of the birds in the state since President Franklin Roosevelt signed a law granting them protected status 75 years ago.)

Yeah, that's exactly the kind of guy we want having access to guns. Anger management issues so severe that he can't physically control himself and so law abiding that he kills protected bald eagles.

But, ya' know, gunz is sooooooooo special.

[Journeyman]

1. For some reason, I picture Dave Chappelle arguing this case before the Supreme Court. . .

[mountain grammy]

2. That's about the most reasonable thing I can think of for this case.

[Kalidurga]

3. The Lautenberg Amendment states

that any person “who has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” cannot purchase or receive a firearm.

This might be the problem right there. Domestic violence is not taken seriously in some or most cases there is a fine and very little jail time. Which is the wrong approach as it obviously doesn't work. Violent people should be required to do a whole lot of therapy and they shouldn't be able to use the "the bitch wouldn't shut up" defense for their crimes. Fines and jail time can be a tool to combat the problem as well, but the focus should be on making sure it doesn't happen again.