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Originally Posted by ChuckF
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Originally Posted by alphamale
Guns can be used for legal purposes, whereas maps to enter the U.S. illegally have only one purpose - to enter the U.S. illegally. It's the maps, not the shoes they're in.
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Map possession is not illegal. Can US citizens have these maps, since they obviously won't be entering the US illegally? Which parts of the border region are classified? What constitutes a map? Sketch of the Rio Grande on a napkin? |
I don't think possession of the shoes is necessarily a crime, the same way that simple possession of most any other footwear isn't necessarily a crime. It's their creator willingly giving them away to people who obviously intend to commit crimes with them, that's the problem. He
only gives them away free to people who intend to commit illegal border crossings. Obviously he'd have to know.
If you willingly obtain a gun for someone else who has obvious intent to kill someone else with it, is that not conspiracy to commit murder? If you willingly obtain tools and maps for someone who obviously intends an illegal border crossing, is this not conspiracy to commit an illegal border crossing? Note that neither participant is being forced to participate, and both have knowledge of the intended crime.