Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

We all want the career and violent criminal off the streets and without a firearms How ever the DOJ and most states that have heavy anti-gun legislatures try desperately to appease the voter on being tough on crime by 'packing' charges.
Packing, is when you take a lesser crime and put it into the same category as a more serious crime. IE. Under most states, you have a law formally call corruption of a Minor, which was a 1st degree Misdemeanour, maximum sentence 1 year in jail and up to a $10,000 fine. Today that law now is in most of the country a fourth degree felony, still the same punishment except it is now a 'sex crime' and it is not expunge-able. It does not take into account circumstance or age difference, so a 19 year old male, with a 15 year old girlfriend caught having sex is punished the same as a 50 year old sex predator that rapes a 15 year old.
This is the course we take when we vote party lines and not what the candidate is for.

Virginia allows a 2 year age difference. If a boyfriend is 19 and the girlfriend is 17 all is good. If he is 19 and she is 15, his butt needs to go to jail IMO.

My ex-girlfriend from high school married a guy in his 40's when she was 16. Apparently it's ok with parental consent.

Based on the pattern of the last couple of millenniums, this whole idea of reaching adulthood at 18 seems to be a fairly new concept. If I recall the History of the U.S. correctly, many of the soldiers that fought for our freedoms in the revolutionary war were as young as 15 or 16.

Far too many politicians with a God complex in office today writing and passing these crappy laws...,. They don;t give a damn about how their decisions affect the average citizen,, If it keeps them in office they'll pass anything that crosses the desk........

SHMIV wrote:My ex-girlfriend from high school married a guy in his 40's when she was 16. Apparently it's ok with parental consent.

Based on the pattern of the last couple of millenniums, this whole idea of reaching adulthood at 18 seems to be a fairly new concept. If I recall the History of the U.S. correctly, many of the soldiers that fought for our freedoms in the revolutionary war were as young as 15 or 16.

Indeed and many older guys married very young girls. Not uncommon for a 30 something man to marry a 14 yo girl. Funny how we latch on to some things from our past while conveniently forgetting others...

SHMIV wrote:Based on the pattern of the last couple of millenniums, this whole idea of reaching adulthood at 18 seems to be a fairly new concept. If I recall the History of the U.S. correctly, many of the soldiers that fought for our freedoms in the revolutionary war were as young as 15 or 16.

New and arbitrary. Age is simply the time spent revolving around the sun, it's not maturity in any way.

I agree with all of you. It was not that long ago the average age for non consented Marriage, parents had little say, was 15 years old for girls but 18 for guys????
100 years ago it was as low as 13 in 20 of the 48 states and like one said 15years and up fought in the Revolution, In the Civil war young as 13 fought.
Now I agree that if a person even 19 has sex with a Minor, under consent, should go to jail, but to make that person a felon for ever is the same as slavery.
It should be, If you do the time or pay the fine your not a felon like they want ya to be. And if ya do it again you stay in jail longer and do it three times forget it your just an idiot.

The DOJ will take away my right to bare arms when they roll the sleeves down on my cold dead body.

Kreutz wrote:The DOJ will take away my right to bare arms when they roll the sleeves down on my cold dead body.

And I thought this thread was going to be about Larry the Cable Guy...