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Neobayer wrote:
"It would be worse than Virginia Tech if someone broke into my car. I have guns in the car," Dauphin County First Assistant District Attorney Fran Chardo quoted the man.
Police talked with Chardo about charging the man. Chardo said what the man said would not qualify as a terroristic threat because there has to be an intent to terrorize another person.
"Because of the statement I was greatly concerned about this fellow," Chardo said. "I contacted the sheriff and had his license to carry a firearm revoked. And I asked police to commit him under Section 302 of the mental health procedures act and that was done. He is now ineligible to possess firearms because he was committed involuntarily."
Chardo said the law says a person cannot possess a firearm if they have been adjudicated incompetent or involuntarily committed for inpatient mental health care.
A source close to the police said the man lives in the 3700 block of Green Street, Susquehanna Twp. The Patriot-News is withholding the man's name because he has not been charged with any offense.
The way I read this , Chardo is just way too impressed with himself. " I contacted the sheriff and had his license to carry a firearm revoked And I asked police to commit him under Section 302 of the mental health procedures act and that was done. He is now ineligible to possess firearms because he was committed involuntarily." DA. Chardo seems to have have taken a convoluted path to deny the man of his constiturional rights and his freedom. Chardo seems to take particular delight in the fact that a "302" has taken away his gun rights forever! Sounds like your typical power hungry liberal making us all safer, because they know what's good for us.
It also seems that alot was made of him being "on campus" , however his listed address is right next to the campus. Was he really just in his neighborhood and talked to the "WRONG" person ?
What is the Virgina Tech incident going to be the impetus for grandstanding DA's. Will we start hearing "You know things are different now after V.T. instead of things are different after 911.
There is more (or less) to this story than is being reported
It would be interesting to find out of the "campus in question" is anything like the Virginia Commonwealth University campus (which is BANNED for CHP under state code, but only as a trespass charge, not a firearms violation)..
Some of these college campuses as so sprawling that it's hard NOT be on some part of the campus within the city limits.
I do find it "HIGHLY DISTURBING" how hearsay can send someone to lockup based on a DA's agenda..
Just today, I was getting my hair cut OC'ing my SIG239.. My hair was exceeding an inch. I made some random comment and the hair cut lady replied, "Oh, you're with the Henrico Police" (one of the words of my comment had the same syllables as "police") and I VERY VERY quickly corrected the lady that I was not an officer, just a guy out on a Sunday... "Oh, no m'am, I said..."
Sometimes people HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR, and when idiots start dialing 911 because they heard something wrong or took it out of context, it sucks for the poor sap with the gun!
