donaldejose
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wiscrna: Chill. I told the story about the young man from Alaska traveling through Canada as an example of different cultural values relating to guns. I am not condoning his behavior and did not say that I did. It is just an example of how he traveled from place to place and the laws changed dramatically without him realizing it. When I drove the roads in Alaska I noticed a lot of bullet holes in road signs (I have seen them in Minnesota also but have not driven much of rural Wisconsin). Seemed to be sort of common in Alaska; something teenagers do, I suppose, like inner city graffiti in eastern US cities: wilderness sign shooting in Alaska. But I have never done it. Just drove by and noticed the holes.
The last time I saw this guy from Alaska was when he was a senior in law school and planning on going back to Alaska to take the bar exam. I don't know what happened to him after that. I don't know if the felony charge question applies to just US or anywhere in the world. I suspect it is just US felony charge since foreign countries can easily have felony convictions for things like "insulting Mohammad" punishable by death and we wouldn't apply that to keep a US citizen from practicing law in the US. So I suspect his Canadian legal issues did not keep him from practicing law in Alaska where it isn't a big deal to shoot at a traffic sign. But you would have to ask him what happened to him. I really don't know. As I said the point of the story is to show how gun laws can change drastically even though you are driving through the same wilderness that existed in Alaska.
The last time I saw this guy from Alaska was when he was a senior in law school and planning on going back to Alaska to take the bar exam. I don't know what happened to him after that. I don't know if the felony charge question applies to just US or anywhere in the world. I suspect it is just US felony charge since foreign countries can easily have felony convictions for things like "insulting Mohammad" punishable by death and we wouldn't apply that to keep a US citizen from practicing law in the US. So I suspect his Canadian legal issues did not keep him from practicing law in Alaska where it isn't a big deal to shoot at a traffic sign. But you would have to ask him what happened to him. I really don't know. As I said the point of the story is to show how gun laws can change drastically even though you are driving through the same wilderness that existed in Alaska.