It’s easy to get arrested for domestic violence these days: depending on which state you live in, simply shouting at your wife can get you arrested. But here’s the special part: even if the domestic violence charge against you is a misdemeanor, you can never own a gun again. That’s right. Thanks to a Jewish congressman named Lautenberg, a misdemeanor domestic violence charge strips you of your constitutional right to own a gun, and it’s at the federal level – i.e., it’s no longer a local crime. Police officers are apparently not exempt from the law despite what I previously stated. The law is unconstitutional for several reasons. For one thing, it is ex post facto law. This says a lot about the American legal system: decades after it was created, the law still exists.
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