This really pisses me off...
Written by: Beck
Rock legend David Crosby, founding member of both the
Byrds, and
Crosby Stills Nash, & Young,
was arrested in New York early Saturday. He's 62 years old, and could conceivably spend the rest of his natural life in prison for the crimes he's charged with. What horrible deeds brought New York City's finest down on the benighted Mr. Crosby, you ask? Possession of a firearm and an ounce of marijuana.
The veteran rocker had checked out of the hotel after the Manhattan show, but left behind a piece of luggage, police said. A hotel worker found the luggage Friday and went through it looking for identification and discovered the marijuana, gun and knives and called authorities, police said.
Crosby later called the hotel to say he would be returning to pick up the luggage, and was greeted by police when he came back, investigators said.
How dare they?
I could rant at great length about both of these "crimes", but I'll spare you for now. After all, I have to save something to rant about in the future, don't I? So allow me, simply, to state my personal view of both of these issues. Ownership and possession of a hand gun
should be legal. Apart from the minor legal technicality called the Second amendment to the Constitution, which explicitly makes it legal, all people not previously convicted of a violent crime should have the right to protect themselves with a gun. Possession and use of marijuana, so long as one does not then endanger others in the process (i.e. by getting behind the wheel of a car),
should be legal.
End of story.