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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Criminal Records Expunged for St. Louis Gun Couple
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:21:14 -0400
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On 6/20/2024 12:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v51hle$2kkd7$1@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/20/2024 1:03 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>> On 6/18/2024 9:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <v4t2ai$1imbc$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ST. LOUIS (AP) - A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions
>>>>>>> of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters
>>>>>>> outside their mansion in 2020. Now they want their guns back.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had no idea that four years later, this still hadn't happened.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was a gated community, which are all over St. Louis. They were
>>>>>> trespassing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apparently 'trespassing' is a meaningless term when you're doing it for
>>>>> 'social justice'.
>>>>
>>>> Don't you even *pretend* there's a built-in tug-of-war between
>>>> "trespassing" and "peaceable assembly"?
>>>
>>> They broke through a locked gate to get into the neighborhood and
>>> lied that it was simply their route to get somewhere else because
>>> there's only the one way in and out of the community. So they weren't
>>> passing through. They broke and entered.
>>
>> Then, sure, I'd be royally pissed, too ...but still must ask whether
>> deadly force is an appropriate threat to protect one's lawn.
> 
> We don't decide appropriateness in the criminal courts. We decide
> whether conduct violates the law.

Though not why I asked it, I think the question -- however phrased -- is 
indeed appropriate to a courtroom.