Monday morning feel good stories
From Central Falls, Rhode Island;
Police found a 20-year-old man, Mael Vasquez, sitting on the porch of the home with a gun. He told police that he had just shot an intruder who attacked him in the basement.
The officers found a man in the basement, later identified as 43 year-old Maurice Botelho, suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. Botehlo was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital.
Investigators said Sunday afternoon that Vasquez’s gun was stolen, and therefore police will charge him with possession of a stolen firearm – but so far that is the only charge he is facing.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Arming yourself is basically a smart thing, but it is advisable to do it with a legal weapon. A stolen firearm will get you in trouble. And, when you buy that first firearm, you might ask the dealer about a good instructor.
Unless… You are a felon needing to protect yourself from other felons. Do felons who have served their time not have the Constitutional right to protect themselves (Arm themselves with a firearm.) once they are out of prison? Currently: No. Therefore as the FBI found most felons who are not supposed to have a firearm, do have firearms.
If we used the argument used for legalizing drugs – people are going to get it anyways, why not legalize it; changes to the law allowing felons to purchase firearms would be amended, or revoked.
Unless convicted of a violent crime I’m for restoring Constitutional Rights to Felons. Isn’t prison supposed to be for paying your debt to society and then emerging with a new lease on life?
How many of ’em serve full sentences? Far as I am concerned, a 10 to 25 sentence isn’t up till the whole 25 years has passed. Typically nowadays it seems no one serves even a third of a sentence. Not sure why their constitutional rights should be restored – when you choose to break a major law, you choose all the consequences. Losing your right to vote or to buy a gun is part of the package.
The question is, did he know it was stolen?