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This is just wrong...

I found this via a rather random path of link to link browseing...

There is a judge in Chicago, holding a homeless man responsible for not keeping the paperwork on a gun he sold to a police officer 10 years ago... That officer then sold it to another officer... The second officer died at some point... The gun turned up in a multiple murder... They are holding the homeless man on $100,000.00 bond.  Lets just for a moment ignore the fact this guy is homeless and probably isn't dragging around a file cabinet with him... He sold the gun to a cop, who sold it to another cop... The offence of not having the paperwork is a misdemeanor... $100,000.00?... Come on... I can not beleave that this judge can't use just a tad more common sence... It seems that this guy is the only one left alive to go after... This is one of those things where I just sit and shake my head...

Now, don't get me wrong... I'm all for going after criminals... They should serve their time... However, there is the concept of the "spirit of the law"... Somehow I don't think that prosecuteing this guy was what they had in mind... Perhaps if he had been the only owner before the shootings, I might consider this to be more realistic... But since it went from him to not one, but two cops before the problem, and neither of them registered it...

Well that's all... I'm just disgusted...