Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1.  @brontewcat sold who the gun? The accusation was made that the federal firearms dealer sold a firearm, specifically a pistol, which is federally illegal, to a minor child. Which, per all facts revealed in the case is entirely false. The FFL holder lawfully sold the village idiot a firearm, who then violated the law and the common sense that the Almighty gave to a common house brick by letting her troubled teen son have free and easy access to it - again, in violation of federal law. That's as bad as wanting to sue a firearms manufacturer for the proper function of their firearm when it's unlawfully utilized. Yet, for some odd reason, we don't see Ford motor vehicle company getting sued when pedestrians are intentionally ran down by terroristic idiots. Especially, given that despite the hyperbole, I've yet to see a firearms advertisement bragging about how many people that firearm can kill and maim. Although, I do have some heartburn over the advertisements from a marksman perspective. Want to sell me that expensive chunk of steel, one would have much better luck discussing its much greater accuracy and environmental tolerance than the tacti-cool crap currently advertised. I'm far more inclined to consider a product that's, say an AR-15 with 1 minute of angle accuracy than one advertised with a search light, radar set, photon torpedo launcher and a Volkswagon attached to its stock. The same being true for handguns. And for the next gun nut that blathers about an AR-15 in 5.56x45mm being a great hunting rifle, that individual is at great risk of having a magazine shoved up their butt sideways and secured with a sand encrusted eggplant. It was a varmint round, it still is a varmint round and it'll always be a varmint round. Oh, just to be pedantic, swords are also lawfully considered arms. So are spears, archery weapons, well, weapons in general. More worriesome is, the school was well aware that the teen was troubled and was powerless to get the minor child help in the face of a criminally negligent parent. That's something easily addressed, as every other form of abuse currently can be legally addressed. But first, we have to get off of our fat, lazy collective asses and make mental health care of greater importance than dentistry, which itself is treated as inferior to cosmetic surgery! Seriously, it's easier to get a boob job than braces, which are both infinitely easier than to find covered mental health care. I've no need of a boob job, the state capital is rife with plenty of fresh boobs and right down the street from me. No need of braces at my age. I could use a mind, mine has been blown over the last two decades...
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  2.  @brontewcat restricted knife sales? So, those sensible countries have outlawed food preparation? Germany must be really upset, given they sell some of the highest quality cutlery in the world! And a few of those ever so sensible countries still allow hunting of wild game - requiring the use of a suppressor on the hunters rifles. I could mention the Swiss and their arms controls, but that'd take a fair sized book to factually cover the subject. Still, we're talking about the occasionally United States, where citizens are allowed all manner of firearms, ostensibly to be able to overthrow M1 Abrams tanks or something. And a nation with no mental health care system to speak of. But, to mitigate those factors, we do have a societal embrasure of violence as a means of conflict resolution.
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  3.  @brontewcat I actually own a pair of switchblades. Military related, now retired, but bought them, they're mine unless the government wants to name an acceptable price to acquire them and well, if I can locate the things. Useful tools, switchblades are banned by many for being dangerous, which they are - to the bearer. Today, I lug around a small pocket knife that has a spring assist, as frequently, I run flat out of hands to open a knife and otherwise, I'd be forced to lug around a fixed blade of greater length. See the balance there? Same balance when I mentioned a National Firearms Act item - a suppressor. In a number of European nations, a suppressor is desired to not disturb residents during hunting season, not banned in the US, they are NFA weapons. Now, I've had my share of Rambo style idiot knives, got seriously tired of getting jabbed in the hip or losing mobility when mounted near my chest, went with a saner US Air Force aviation survival knife for the majority of my military career. Civilian life, I have my assisted opening 2 1/2 inch knife that's around 6 and 1/3 centimeters. Does its jobs, enough said. Now, is that a weapon? A hammer is a weapon, when used as such, as is a common screwdriver. People have been hitting one another over the head with the latest rock replacement since people were mistakenly invented. Now, let's go back to firearms control, which is lacking in the US and needlessly so. First, take the idiot's brigade out of the picture. All semiautomatic firearms derived from military service rifles go under a new chapter of the NFA. Shy of machine guns, lower than suppressors (yeah, there's a legal threshold in the US practical law, as states have input beyond the NFA). Handguns, I'm shit out of luck figuring out, due to Heller vs D.C.. Here's the fun of it, occasionally, I do hunt, using typically either a 30-30 lever action or a 45-70 lever action. I also compete with an AR-15, frequently enough against active military and also compete in M1911 tournaments. And thoroughly hate gun nuts, who prefer "victory via superior volume of fire" idiocy and go beyond hatred of those who think that they can lawfully overthrow their government with their toy vs MLRS, artillery, bombers, tanks and royally pissed off infantry. But, we've also have a rather confounding legal landscape. That whole second amendment being key to governmental function in a national emergency and citizens rights. Idiots fixate upon militia, never following laws, critical being the various militia acts, upon which the conscription system is rooted upon. Military aged men (now, women are admitted, due to legislation), who are fit mind and body, can be conscripted into military service nationwide and are classified as unorganized militia. That's every able bodied male, typically between the ages of 17 - 45, now adding women (formerly, only women in the National Guard, aka Organized Militia). I'm big on law, I've lived under lawless conditions during deployment, ain't fun at all. I'm also big on commonsense, which alas, is an endangered species, courtesy of my national fixation on quick fixes, rather than permanent fixes. I do however, personally advocate for the concealed carry of 105 - 155 mm howitzers. With one exception, Atomic Annie is also allowed, despite being of a higher caliber. Look up the weights and sizes to get the humor. Had a concealed carry permit, long ago, still have the card for it. One night, as I was cleaning, yet again, my M1911 pistol (yeah, I have a decided preference there), I considered how sporting an armed criminal would have to be, to allow me to equalize the odds by lugging my own out. Stopped lugging around that pig iron the next day. Guns, like hammers and saws are tools, to be used for good or ill. How often do you lug around a hammer or saw? And I live in an "open carry state", where very few bother, see the hammer and saw argument... Here, we've got an obvious parental neglect case, initially viewing things opposite, well, suggest it to say, I'd happily beat both parents to death with their own livers. We've got a massive, glaring hole in our mental health non-care system. As a result, we've got a massive number of mentally injured children, teachers, staff and some dead. All because Ronnie Raygun defunded mental health care and funded vaporware of Star Wars. If there's a hell, I hope to be allowed the privilege of shoveling coal onto Ronnie. I've other reasons, but they're classified... So, I'm not against your views, just tempering them based upon prevailing law and that beyond diamond hard Constitution.
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  4.  @mehere8038  the real point is, once convicted of a felony, the individual is ineligible for federal office. Not accused, convicted. That whole innocent until proved guilty by a jury of one's peers in a court of law, as that Constitution thingie says.
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  5. Actually, the suggested revision of when death occurs would be quite, ahem, entertainingly aromatic. Given that neuron activity has been detected a week after death has occurred. @angelmendez-rivera351, the problem actually is that a very loud and threatening minority has hijacked the political machinery of our failing, due to their phenomenal efforts, nation. And I say threatening, as in far too frequently, these religious maniacs will bring guns into the discussion - assuming that the rest of us aren't firearm owners and combat veterans. Yeah, had such discussions and suffice it to say, they're paper tigers, talk and bluster, but when the bluff is called, are conspicuous by their sudden absence. Especially when in person and I flop my military retiree ID card down.
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  6.  @christianglassel9950  they certainly do product phenomenal amounts of vaporware.
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  7.  @scriptles  so, it'd be a democracy under your definition if say, the former candidate choked to death on a cow femur and obviously wasn't eligible for the ballot and no other candidate is available save their opponent? It's then still a democracy for those now disenfranchised because their party no longer has a candidate? You spent considerable time typing up that drivel, but entirely none thinking other permutations through. Because, under your suggested system, we'd be Russia, where candidates can disappear on mythical charges, "fall out of a window" or all other manner of mayhem, but it's a single candidate democratic election. Meanwhile, you omitted one part. The voter still has a ballot if a candidate is replaced and can vote for whomever they please. But, giving voters even that level of choice after losing a candidate is not democratic and foolish. Got ya.
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  8.  @JeffTheHokie  well, Sir, given his performance, demeanor and overall conduct, I would be forced to admit that very well may be true. I'd have to review his orders in order to be certain. One does get a certain leeway when one has served since the ice age... ;)
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  9. What they fouled horribly was the actual heart of his defense. The distinction between a lawful order and an unlawful order and the erosive effect a criminally complicit command environment can have on that distinction. It's literally at the heart of what happened at My Lai, but Hollywood always loves to get it wrong or worse, not even wrong. Love the graphic on Rule #1! First time I've saw it, but certainly not the first time I heard it. If memory serves, the first time I heard it, saber toothed cats were still an annoyance... I disagree on who was pushing the code reds, as sergeants and corporals aren't ordering a lieutenant to give that order. But, it did start interestingly with perjury... Marine officers are not gods? Seriously? ;) May I introduce you to second lieutenant god... Wow, I could be charged with reckless endangerment of all personnel hearing that one, due to the extreme risk of dying of laughter. I've gotten unlawful orders in the Army, largely due to poor wording and not listening to an objection to the order not being lawful, what prompted an instant reevaluation is, "Very well, Sir, however I'll require that order documented and digitally signed". Never got such a document, the order was instead made lawful and properly considered. "Going after the Colonel", you know, insubordination for performing your sworn duties. Yeah, totally Hollywood. Although, had the Colonel in a real world court bellowed his career ending tirade, I'd have closed with my own bellow, starting quietly with "Sir, I am a veteran and a honorably retired former service member and military retiree, hence now a civilian and a representative here today of the US citizenry and taxpayers and would like to state, for the record, NOT IN MY NAME!!!", giving my sternest NCO glare. Yeah, wouldn't be allowed, but it would out Hollywood Hollywood and any attempt, rightfully having me ejected from the courtroom, likely alongside the wayward Colonel. Mr Navyman? Just whose department is on the head of a paper paycheck from the USMC? Oh yeah, Department of the Navy, sailor. ;P:p:P:p It's a favorite rub at the VFW, reminding them I was US Army Medical Corps, they are US Navy Marine Corps, the other gentlemen largely being US Marine Corps Judge Advocate General Corps and at some points, I had affiliation with US Army Chemical Corps, as well as US Army Communication Corps. Yeah, long career... High ranking Marine officer? He'd be properly referred to as a Senior Marine Commissioned Officer, which actually means something anywhere but a court of law, where that only comes into play under very special conditions - such as the Colonel's upcoming general courts-martial proceedings. I don't even think senior officers can receive a summary court martial at that point, it'd be special or general, both due to rank and nature of the charges. While on a jury, we once did have a situation where shouts were needed - by the jurist to order a recess until the nearby noise could be abated and examination and cross could be conducted at levels below a bellow. After an slightly extended lunch, the noise had ceased, although I don't believe it was by direction of the court, just that the conditions requiring the noise be made had ended (aircraft overhead, which was unusual for that location and probably was due to some emergent or contingency conditions that had ended). Memorable only because, as a juror, we were fairly well bored out of our minds and seeing a judge shout to be heard yielded entertainment to the spectacle. Military justice is... Complex, due to the unique nature of the Armed Forces (not my words, but the words of the SCOTUS). A number of offenses that are lesser felonies for civilians are capital offenses in the military. Some of the biggies, espionage, mutiny, sedition and treason, typically get civilians a lengthy prison sentence at most, a service member could actually be executed for. That reflects the position of public trust granted to our military, both to represent our nation and her values, as well as being entrusted with our most lethal of weapons. Hence, the need for a level of discipline unheard of in the civilian world.
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  10. Being a US based corporation, they're bound by both US law and Costa Rico law. Just as a US citizen that travels abroad is still governed by US law, so a violation of federal law can result in one's arrest and incarceration. There are quite a few US citizens in prison for violating federal law, including terrorists.
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  11.  @KayKay114  it was repeatedly mentioned in every one of the films that the island belongs to Costa Rica.
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  12. I've burned the flag many times, as it was worn, tattered and unservicable and that's the US Flag code method of destruction. As mentioned, protest is allowed, so when I see foreigners protesting in their home countries and burning the US flag, I shrug, as that's permitted here and anyone objecting is objecting to our very own, very first amendment. As for profanity on public display, were that unlawful, what is to prevent someone from deciding that a specific political party's name or candidate's name is profanity? Now, we'd have a monarchy and anarchy would ensue - rightfully so, as we are decidedly not a monarchy.
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  13. From what little has been said, there was one critical thing present that created a major liability risk. As proved by two unintended discharges previously, there was absolutely no culture of safety within the entire project and that always is the fault of the senior leadership. That, from a retired soldier, small arms expert and multiple firearm competitor. From my chair, accidental discharges are only such due to a malfunction - everything else is regarded as negligent, regardless of laws to the contrary. It's that mindset that creates an atmosphere where all consider themselves part of the safety chain.
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  14. My reading of the SCOTUS decision is the outright denial of the entire ninth amendment, effectively repealing part of the Bill of Rights from the bench. This is unique since the ratification in 1787! The day prior, denial of second amendment regulation of the "well regulated militia" under all interpretations of the militia by case and codified law. Followed after by undermining the first amendment separation of church and state and another attacking Miranda. I postulate a full on assault upon the entire Bill of Rights. Next, we'll see. Perhaps they'll mention that women aren't mentioned in the Constitution, hence are not people under the Constitution and have no rights or even that no one has a right to life codified in the Constitution... Welcome to the United States, a nascent Constitution Free Zone. Where all aren't true citizens as we previously understood the concept, but chattel property of the state or its appointees. Perhaps we should call France to borrow their national razor...
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  15. I'm entirely unconvinced, I'm absolutely certain that the entire SCOTUS consists of illegal space aliens. The legal ones being in Congress.
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  16. Well, at least she did address the sanctions - by quoting Buzz Lightyear.
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  17. Oh, he still has McDill AFB to chase away, with SOCCENT, CENTCOM, AFRICOM, MARCENT and mobility command, to name major commands HQ'd there. And one military resort, which is across the water from Disney and would lose attraction with DeDodo's "improvements". Which is really a big deal nationally, as he'd chase both the DoD and the largest corporation in the state away, while being affiliated with a party that has historically been aligned with the military and big business. I'm sure PAC donations would reflect that loss of party loyalty to those who pay for campaigns nationally. This would be the first time in my life I've heard of someone shooting themselves in the foot with a howitzer.
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  18.  @ramblinbananas888  minimum maintenance, any significant care belies one's intent. So, the bare minimum to keep vermin back and "reduce eyesore" crap. Which means, allow some cosmetics to begin to degrade in a highly visible manner, inducing panic in the populace due to the visual impact and reinforcing the mental impact of their loss and novel poverty.
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  19. "Go talk to and find out". <Kraken returning>"I don't eat ass".
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  20. Well, the USMC is a corps of the US Navy and hence, on the rare occasion that you'd receive a paper paycheck, you'd see proudly emblazoned being issued by the US Navy. As for reprisals, I've been with many joint forces on our now ubiquitous joint bases, "Fine by me, we'll kick each other's asses for a while, no matter what, I'll win, as I've rank, time in grade and time in service on God. Jesus can't get promoted before me". And hell, I can chew the crayons with the best of them, despite being Army.
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  21. The GOP, promoting more children by lowering the birthrate by 23% and climbing. Might as well call them the Dodo Party!
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  22.  @liyon316  well, the Committee for Public Safety pretty much did that in France, after removing the ringleaders of the national corruption that was literally starving the populace.
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  23. I've taken to using an appropriate epithet for Tucker, Typhoid Tucker. The Mary Mallon of the mass media.
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  24.  @larryrowe5259  personally, I call them zero targets.
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  25. I've always said, people should feel free to burn any Constitution that they are wearing.
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  26. But oddly, ignoring the Mann Act, which a woman named Maxwell just was convicted under.
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  27. Legally speaking, yes, they're the same gravity in breach of law. Also considered, scope. As a thought experiment, I kill family members of your family at the numbers of documents that were astray. For Biden, we're talking immediate family and some cousins, for Trump, a VFW hall sized venue. We're talking a mass murder vs Joe Mengle level atrocity. Going into improperly classified data, well, that's an atrocity well known in government and essentially intractable, to the point where I've read documents that were proudly marked SECRET/FOUO. Secret is special, in it could harm our government's interests, FOUO is For Official Use Only and hence, not subject to summary declassification and release under law. An IP address could be FOUO, the base chow hall roster and those consuming meals roster certainly would be. An entire network's IP scope and base roster is secret for plainly obvious reasons. The massive difference is, if I took any of those documents home, I'd be in a maximum security prison, likely close to Manning's old cell. Executive branch, like seniormost military leadership both realize the overclassification and deal with rivers of such documents, so behavior is decidedly more casual. Welcome to the real world, where some things are a major pain in the gonads for rank and file, not so much upstairs. And if I see another anything not UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO, but otherwise marked something higher/FOUO, there very well may be a death or severe bodily harm involved... And yeah, I Goobered security stuff down a lot, not that it's a classified thing, the guiding documents are unclassified and publicly available, bur boring as hell. But, lawyers who specialize in such things, well, they're rare and about as expensive as live Dodo birds.
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  28. I'm reminded of what Caesar did once he assumed power as emperor of Rome with the Senate, disbanded them and only reconvened them once their power was neutralized. I doubt this Congress will sit idly by and lose their authority and powers. Downside, we'll end up with Vance as POTUS.
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  29.  @radchad4588  yeah, cities burned to the ground daily, heard all about it -daily. Odd though, cities burning daily on consecutive days.Ashes burning? Oh, Guinness, Guinea is a nation, jackass.
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  30. So, basically the litigation is against the criminal and unconstitutional constitution itself allows the government to unlawfully seek charges against the god-emperor forever Trump, who can never do anything unlawful, for he is the source and origin of all laws. The mighty firer of the Old God, who he ordained as "a pussy for letting his son get killed" and then fired, replacing Him with Himself, the savior of the Savior, the holiest of hollies, ultimate source and origin of all compost in the universe. Shall we hold a pool for how long the jurist can hold a straight face for this imbroglio?
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  31. GOP once stood for Grand Old Party. Now, it's Groping Obnoxious Pricks. Lead by someone with tiny hands and having a member indistinguishable from a finger... Oh, was that my outside voice? My bad.
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  32.  @michaelellringer5600  because Scotty is going to beam him there? He's had to turn in his passport, suffice it to say that he's on the no fly list, his jet won't be available to him and if any pilot flew him out of the country, that pilot now is a criminal and all assets get seized. And both nations get a hell of a lot of military aid from the US, which would instantly evaporate. As in, "What F-35? All we have for you is an F-U".
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  33. Vomiting a little into my mouth, but... Elon does some things very well. He's a hell of a showman, right up there with Libarace with moderate skill in a narrow area, but a master showman. He also has proven twice, massively disparate fields, that he can pick management teams and engineering teams and avoid picking bullshitters, but instead picking highly competent staff. In everything else, he's a walking clusterfuck. So, do give credit where it's due.
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  34. Especially for a crazy, a serial liar, and profiteering off their accusations against him.
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  35. Well, The Duffel Blog is a militarized version of The Onion. You know, The Onion with garlic.
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  36.  @Klongu_Da_Bongu zero target, one utilized to zero in a firearm sights. Why does Putin incessantly talk about and threaten their usage? Telling that you don't deny that you're not from the US, per your own phrasing.
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  37. Anyone else would be charged with dereliction of duty and be looking at hard time in prison.
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  38. It is not civil disobedience to refuse to obey an unlawful order, it is the codified law to question, then refuse to obey an unlawful order. Any military who do obey an unlawful order are subject to murder charges under Article 92 of the UCMJ and the penalty is death by lethal injection. BTW, it's more than lights out at the White House, Donald Trump finally has his wall - around the White House. Welcome to America, the world's newest Constitution free zone.
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  39. Why would he bother, when he's got a superpac laden with hundreds of millions of dollars that's not required to only be for election expenses?
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  40. Ah, but every state, territory, possession or protectorate share a commonality with every state of the union. None are mentioned in the federal Constitution, with only the District of Columbia being named in the Constitution.
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  41. It's also not defined in codified law per se, but given as an example in a SCOTUS decision on the first amendment. When SCOTUS examples become codified law, the SCOTUS has burned the Constitution on its very own, as only Congress and the POTUS can codify federal law together.
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  42. PhD in astrophysics, so she's a consultant for the Space Force... Maverick was flying a new fighter, both a fighter aircraft and a fighter subterrene. I dunno if I wanna fire a missile at anything while underground, doesn't sound like a good career move...
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  43.  @justcameron9500  a little trivia. It's hanged, drawn and quartered. Hanged by the neck until nearly dead, taken down and splayed out, allowed to recover consciousness, then is emasculated, then eviscerated, then decapitated and the body divided into quarters. The quarters scattered to the points of the compass, the head encased in pitch and put on a pike before the entrance to the city or government seat. Not too funny to discuss when you realize what the actual punishment was. Better to simply crucify him against the wall, then pull the nails from the hands and let him hang by his feet.
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  44.  @purphexyon  high profile criminal case impacting national security? Act up, chastised isn't the word, severely disciplined is the word. It's viewed as, no national security, no nation and fundamentally, national security and survival trumps all.
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  45.  @decaturdev7127  not a low security risk crime like financial crimes, this is national security. Look up national security, then look up Manning.
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  46.  @guybrushthreepwood362  if that happened, there would be absolutely no protection for national security data, no possible prosecution, as this would provide an affirmative defense and the US would lose every human intelligence source, electronic source, imagery source and intelligence partner. And the higher level courts would censure the jurist, the government would appeal and have to win or we'd literally lose the nation to our enemies. But, totally possible. As likely as the jurist playing Russian Roulette with a machine gun.
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  47. Your Honor, the Prostitution rests sated.
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  48. Well, they can bring their muttations, we'll bring more trouble than Carter has little liver pills.
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  49. Trump, Titanic, six of one,a half dozen of the other.
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  50. I absolutely have a legal right to own a howitzer. I also enjoy the legal right to absolutely refuse to waste money on purchasing a howitzer and each $200 taxed destructive weapon round, as given my hearing loss, I'm rather noise adverse. ;) Flamethrowers, yeah - if I had a real interest in setting back fires to block the movement of wildfires, which is crazy way too much work for my liking or for use as a roofing torch, with which I'd likely injure myself.
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