Stolen Levergun - 336 in .35Rem

[FWiedner]

A heads-up from MarlinOwners:

http://www.marlinowners.com/forums/inde ... 440.0.html

[kimwcook]

I think we should lop fingers off thieves.

[mescalero1]

Kim,
We are a civilized society, and that type of treatment is too harsh.
However, restitution and a public flogging is within reason.

[cnjarvis]

I think we should lop fingers off thieves.

That's too good for 'em. Hang, draw & quarter. Nothing I hate worse than liars and thieves.

[TedH]

I think we should lop fingers off thieves.

That's too good for 'em. Hang, draw & quarter. Nothing I hate worse than liars and thieves.

+1

[bogus bill]

This very subject of theft was on another site today. I copyied what I wrote and am posting it here. I really feel this way!

After haveing lost a fortune to thieves over the years I deeply belive they should be exicuted the FIRST time! Now, I know many if not most other people abhore that as extream. I would compromise somewhat and go along with the idea of takeing all their possesions, (after repayment of what is stolen), stacking it in a pile and torching it in front of them. Hurts, doesnt it? Another possibility is old bibical law where the bible said, "If a theif be caught he will be made to restore seven fold." Untill we get serious and do this, it will go on forever. It wouldnt stop then either, but I belive it would drasticly cut it down!
What I really, really hate, is the public attitude and law enforcement passiviness towards thiefs. Insurance is part of the attitude. Also modern day easy liveing. I am 68 years old and well remember working my butt off in the fields for 35 cents a hour. In those days us kids would get bloody noses over 10 cents if another kid tried tried to cheat us.
Drugs of course probley accounts for maybe 75 percent or more of thefts. Time to exicute them too! What is it going to be like shortly with the youth when they see TRILLIONS bantied about in Obamas counterfit stymilas? When they see the treasurey head selected after it is prooven he is a tax cheat? After seeing people get off lightly with stealing millions? Its long past time to get tough!

[TedH]

You won't get an argument from me Bill.

[Rusty]

Shoot 'em in the head and be done with it.

[piller]

I kinda like the way thieves are treated in muslim countries. Their right hand is chopped off. I may disagree with muslims on many points, but on their treatment of thieves, we are on the same page. If a man is in need, I'll be the first to help if I can. I just don't like someone stealing.

[Ysabel Kid]

I hate thieves with a passion. I have no problems with any harsh punishment - the harsher, the better. In a country so generous, with so many people willing to help those down in their luck, theft is just a simple matter of lazy greed.

[bbleverfan]

i am not a big fan of theaves. i just recently got robbed myself. someone threw a bag of garbage in the back of my truck while i was in the grocery store so when i came out i went around back and threw it in the dumpster the store manager got my license number called the police they finned me $425.00. is that like stealing?

[dbateman]

man i hate thieves with a passion we work so hard for what we have and some low life scum just sees it and decides
thay wont that to and takes it!!
about a year a go a freind of mine went to South Africa for afew weeks to visit family put his tools (he is a diesel mechanic)
$25000+ motorbike triumph trippelspeed in his shed all locked up and safe
only to come home to a empty shed the thieves had forced a roller door open and stole every thing
thay took his lively hood
i hate thieves

[gamekeeper]

You won't get an argument from me Bill.

+ 1

[FWiedner]

Looks like this levergun got found.

A neighbor saw some supicious characters in the area and picked it up off the FFL's porch but didn't bother to tell him, and then left town for the weekend. Gave it to him when he got back to town.

Good intentions are OK, but doesn't this guy have a phone? I think he's lucky he didn't have charges pressed against him.

Anyway, the gun was found and is now in it's new owner's hands.

[Bogie35]

I think we should lop fingers off thieves.

You know, that's a good idea. It would solve the gun control issues if criminals no longer had trigger fingers...

bogie

[AJMD429]

A neighbor saw some supicious characters in the area and picked it up off the FFL's porch but didn't bother to tell him, and then left town for the weekend. Gave it to him when he got back to town.

I probably would have gone over, knocked to let them know a firearm had been left on their porch, and if no answer, left a very clear note saying I felt the package was in danger of being stolen, who I was, and where I had taken it for safekeeping. how to reach me, etc.. Leaving the clear note is the key.

[piller]

Glad it was found. I hate to think of a nice piece of human craftsmanship in the hands of a thief.

[Kansas Ed]

While I like Bill's ideas, I see a problem with the return 7 fold deal....they will only steal 7 times as much from other folks to get you paid back. And since most of the law enforcement around here doesn't put as much effort into theft as they do traffic violations, who's going to catch them in the first place?

Ed