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<blockquote data-quote="BadgeBunny" data-source="post: 2163157" data-attributes="member: 1242"><p>You make it sound like the SDA is the only piece of legislation ever enacted that is "rife" with "ambiguous" words. Sheesh ... Irregardless of legislative mistakes and legal wranglings over the plain definition of words, it has been WIDELY held that officers are allowed to disarm if they can articulate a reason to do so. I'm not saying it is right ... or wrong ... just that it is so ... (Although, to be clear, I am FIRMLY in the "it is right" category.)</p><p></p><p>I am not an attorney ... nor do I want to be one. But I've been around lawyers, politicians, criminals (both "alleged" and "actual') enough to know that reading only a statute is not enough to determine whether you are in the "right" or "wrong" ... Oftentimes even getting a legal opinion will not save you from a ton of grief and heartache ... not to mention a much, much lighter wallet ... But then ... I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. </p><p></p><p>To read and interpret only ONE statute, to the exclusion of all other statutes, case law, etc. out there is to do so at your own peril.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BadgeBunny, post: 2163157, member: 1242"] You make it sound like the SDA is the only piece of legislation ever enacted that is "rife" with "ambiguous" words. Sheesh ... Irregardless of legislative mistakes and legal wranglings over the plain definition of words, it has been WIDELY held that officers are allowed to disarm if they can articulate a reason to do so. I'm not saying it is right ... or wrong ... just that it is so ... (Although, to be clear, I am FIRMLY in the "it is right" category.) I am not an attorney ... nor do I want to be one. But I've been around lawyers, politicians, criminals (both "alleged" and "actual') enough to know that reading only a statute is not enough to determine whether you are in the "right" or "wrong" ... Oftentimes even getting a legal opinion will not save you from a ton of grief and heartache ... not to mention a much, much lighter wallet ... But then ... I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. To read and interpret only ONE statute, to the exclusion of all other statutes, case law, etc. out there is to do so at your own peril. [/QUOTE]
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