Are you actually arguing that 44 defensive missiles (each with, at best, a dubious 56% success rate) serves are any sort of defense against enemies with thousands of such weapons? I didn’t invent math, don’t take it out on me.
My points stands - we don’t have any real defense if our enemies wanted to annihilate us.
The 44 missiles (and there are only 44) in the GMD have a very bad effectiveness rating of around 40%. North Korea and Russia combined have over 2,000 warheads ready for launch from silos or untraceable submarines at any time. The GMD is barely any protection at all against a real attack.
Our enemies could annihilate the U.S. in about 45 minutes if they decided to. The only deterrent is the fact that we are ready to do the same.
The system isn’t set up (generally) for a person convicted of a crime to stay out of prison while they exhaust appeals. While there are exceptions, it would be highly unusual for him to stay out for years pending appeal.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-1028.html
Also Loy’s own YouTube and TikTok channels.
There’s not really a such thing as a “referral” from a private citizen (or law firm) to a prosecutorial body - that term is usually reserved for intragovermemt processes (the IRS recommending that the DOJ prosecute someone for tax fraud after an audit is a referral).
Not saying this is meaningless, just that it’s the same as if you or I wrote a letter to a prosecutors office and asked them to do something. They don’t have any obligation to do anything and likely won’t.
I didn’t mean drug possession charges are violent felonies, I meant that as two separate statements.
I agree that drug addiction is a complicated and serious problem and is less so a moral failing for the people afflicted by it. However, crack addiction drives people into crime - many, many thefts and crimes and spurred by addicts trying to steal to support their habits. They shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms for the good of everyone else.
All rights have limits. They lost theirs when they became addicted to a substance that erodes their sense of judgment, as tragic as it may be.
I don’t think someone addicted to crack should own a gun. I don’t think someone convicted of a violent felony should have the right to own a gun.
All constitutional rights have limits - we have a right to free speech, but (even at the time of adopting the 1st amendment), there were many examples of legal limits on speech, even making some speech (i.e. fraudulent speech) a crime.
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth.