I genuinely don’t get the USA’s fascination with firearms.
This BBC article on the subject suggests it’s cultural, but that only leaves me more perplexed.
Isn’t it more a $ thing?The annual revenue of the gun and ammunition manufacturing industry stands at $13.5bn.
Last edited by L'irlandais; 11-07-19 at 18:07.
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Tullamore Dew, the Afghan Wigs, and many, many strippers - how to get over your ex. How true.
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RE the bolded bit.
A 'discharge without conviction' is a sentence that a judge in NZ can hand down in criminal cases. It is often described (in my circles at least) as a s106 order because that is the relevant section of the Sentencing Act. It is legally treated the same as an acquittal.
The jurisidiction to make a s106 order is found in s107 of the Sentencing Act, which reads:
107 Guidance for discharge without conviction
The court must not discharge an offender without conviction unless the court is
satisfied that the direct and indirect consequences of a conviction would be out
of all proportion to the gravity of the offence.
Last edited by damo; 12-07-19 at 08:07.
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"There is far too much talk about good ball and bad ball. In my opinion, good ball is when you have possession and bad ball is when the opposition have it." - Dick Jeeps
Sorry to be cynical, but that reasoning is the same that a number of judges use over here for nice young men who have done a bad thing but because of who they are and what they can do get a soft sentence; see also female medical students at Oxford.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Man may do as he will; he may not will what he wills
Arthur Schopenhauer
Tullamore Dew, the Afghan Wigs, and many, many strippers - how to get over your ex. How true.
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