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Originally Posted by Indydealmaker
Carl,
When I change my position on something, I admit I am wrong. I apparently did not clearly state my position. When I said it is not a law. You are right. I was not being literal. However, IMO, my point was that a law with no enforcement is for all practical purposes not a law. It is nothing more than a suggestion. That suggestion is normally sufficient for reasonable, law-abiding citizens. However, for those that would ignore the "suggestion" because there is no penalty, we need for the law to be re-written to provide for a penalty.
Also, any attorney will tell you that in this day and age, to take a law literally is to set yourself up for a fall. There are so many interpretations in case law of the written statute that your head will spin. That is why you see so many bad dudes walk after you arrested them.
Black is rarely black. White is always grey. Unfortunately.
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1. When you take the mind set that a law with no enforcement is not a law, you are no longer amenable to being convinced to the contrary. This, despite the fact that I provided you with the title of of a major federal law, affecting virtually all active and most retired law enforcement officers, and the laws of every state in the Union. But the law has no enforcement provision so you do not consider it a law.
2. I take it you were speaking in generalities when you spoke of so many bad dudes walking after
I arrested them.
I say this because 97 % of the felons
I arrested pled guilty before trial and 100 % of those who went to trial were convicted.
That's pretty black and white to me.