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I think this article is too soft on Huckabee's record on pardons. But the details of this one case on the part of Romney are troubling. You've got to be SERIOUSLY anti-RKBA to hold out on this one.
Charles
From the SLTrib:
Full story at: http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_7874199
Relevant quotes:
At age 13, Anthony Circosta shot a classmate in the shoulder with a BB gun. He pleaded guilty in juvenile court to a felony assault and was sentenced to 364 days of probation. From then on, Circosta's life was apparently exemplary. He enlisted in the Army National Guard as a medic, served as a volunteer fireman, and earned a college degree in criminal justice. In 2002, he served as a National Guard medic at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which Romney headed. Deployed to Iraq in 2004, Circosta was promoted to first lieutenant and awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service.
Circosta needed a gun permit in Massachusetts to gain promotion as a security guard and pursue a career as a police officer. But, to get the permit, Circosta first needed to have his record cleared of a childhood felony. He told the pardon advisory board the childhood incident was not his proudest moment, ''but it happened.'' He moved his life beyond it.
Twice, the Massachusetts clemency board recommended a pardon. Twice, then-Governor Romney declined to grant it.
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Romney said he followed his own guideline against pardoning firearm-related offenses if the applicant needed a pardon to obtain a gun permit. Apparently, this guideline left no room for discretion in the case of a 13-year-old middle school student who shot a BB gun at boys cutting through his apartment complex.
I think this article is too soft on Huckabee's record on pardons. But the details of this one case on the part of Romney are troubling. You've got to be SERIOUSLY anti-RKBA to hold out on this one.
Charles
From the SLTrib:
Full story at: http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_7874199
Relevant quotes:
At age 13, Anthony Circosta shot a classmate in the shoulder with a BB gun. He pleaded guilty in juvenile court to a felony assault and was sentenced to 364 days of probation. From then on, Circosta's life was apparently exemplary. He enlisted in the Army National Guard as a medic, served as a volunteer fireman, and earned a college degree in criminal justice. In 2002, he served as a National Guard medic at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which Romney headed. Deployed to Iraq in 2004, Circosta was promoted to first lieutenant and awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service.
Circosta needed a gun permit in Massachusetts to gain promotion as a security guard and pursue a career as a police officer. But, to get the permit, Circosta first needed to have his record cleared of a childhood felony. He told the pardon advisory board the childhood incident was not his proudest moment, ''but it happened.'' He moved his life beyond it.
Twice, the Massachusetts clemency board recommended a pardon. Twice, then-Governor Romney declined to grant it.
...
Romney said he followed his own guideline against pardoning firearm-related offenses if the applicant needed a pardon to obtain a gun permit. Apparently, this guideline left no room for discretion in the case of a 13-year-old middle school student who shot a BB gun at boys cutting through his apartment complex.
