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In reply to the discussion: Hunter Biden Is A Shakespearean Tragedy [View all]Ocelot II
(131,263 posts)11. A federal appeals court has found the drug/gun form question unconstitutional.
You'd think a party that insists anybody who wants a gun should be able to get one would be outraged at the prosecution of Hunter Biden for falsely claiming on the gun purchase form that he wasn't a drug addict. (Of course there might be some element of mens rea there, since drug addicts often don't consider themselves to be drug addicts. So is a drug addict who's in denial about his addiction lying when he claims he isn't an addict on the gun purchase form?) Hunter shouldn't get a pass because of who he is, but it doesn't seem to me that he's getting any kind of a pass - on the contrary, he's being prosecuted for a crime that is almost never prosecuted as a stand-alone.
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He knew this would happen, but he also knew the country was in trouble and he answered the call.
Walleye
Sep 2023
#3
I am afraid the stress of this situation will drive Hunter back to using drugs.
Ocelot II
Sep 2023
#5
Judge Maryellen Noreika who presided over the case asked Hunter if he was still doing drugs
womanofthehills
Sep 2023
#38
Drug addiction is a terrible disease. Of course he's responsible for his actions,
Ocelot II
Sep 2023
#7
A federal appeals court has found the drug/gun form question unconstitutional.
Ocelot II
Sep 2023
#11
Regardless of the legal niceties, the lie is a lie. He had a choice, he could have answered
Chainfire
Sep 2023
#19
Well.... that is one of you. I have compassion for Hunter Biden and fail to understand why you
Demsrule86
Sep 2023
#18
Hello? Last month Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika asked Hunter if he was still doing drugs
womanofthehills
Sep 2023
#39