Ravenwood - 05/01/06 10:00 PM
Rush Limbaugh reached an agreement with prosecutors whereby he continues his treatment while paying them off for all the money they spent violating his privacy rights. In exchange, prosecutors are dropping the charges. What strikes me as peculiar is this revelation from the CBS News report:
Limbaugh also must continue treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers and he cannot own a gun.What does gun ownership have to do with it? For starters, Rush isn't being convicted of anything. He is only agreeing to conditions to get them to drop the charges and discontinue their witch hunt. Why would gun ownership even be a condition of the agreement?
Methinks it illustrates just how unreasonable the Palm Beach County Prosecutors are being.
Category: Left-wing Conspiracy
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Considering its usually illegal in most places to possess a gun and be addicted to drugs, my guess is that this arises out of Florida law generally and is a rather minor matter that is being blown out of proportion.
What they don't indicate, and I would be interested in finding out, is how long he is without gun? Is it forever or just until he completes his treatment?
If it was just for the next 18 months or however long he is in treatment, than I really do think it is related to the addiction/drug abuse thing.
Posted by: countertop at May 1, 2006 11:03 PMHello hello! Heard you wuz back! Yes, we can trust the MSM to display their deepest fears every night. Solution = MORE GUNS!!!
Posted by: JebTexas at May 2, 2006 1:33 PMThe war on some drugs and the war on gun owner's rights aren't far removed from each other. The penalties for even the smallest drug charge are greatly enhanced by mere possession of any firearm, even if it's not fireable and wasn't used in the commission of the so called crime.
I don't know Florida law but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that one isn't allowed to possess a gun while charges are pending, pre-disposition of the case. Since Rush will presuambly not violate the law in the next 18 months, he'll end up with no record and one would suppose he'll allowed to possess a gun after that. But who knows.
The drug laws often conflict with the bill of rights and they've been using them to chip away at the 2nd amendment too. First they came for the potheads....
Posted by: Libby at May 2, 2006 9:48 PMOne of the classes of "prohibited persons" who are ineligible for firearm possession from the '86 FOPA was "Anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance."
Posted by: jesse at May 3, 2006 8:11 AMOne must ask if Patrick Kennedy now gets all of his guns taken away.
And is there any possibility he could get the Limbaugh treatment?
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