Aside from the absurdity and practical difficulties, I suspect this would fail immediately on constitutional grounds, because registering as a criminal enterprise would be self-incriminating. This is the reason that in those happy peaceful utopias of 2A repression that require registration of guns, felons (and I am sure those with violent misdemeanors) are not required to register their guns and cannot be prosecuted for failing to do so. Failing to register a gun is a crime only a person with a clean record can commit.jimlongley wrote: ...Barney once went on a campaign to require all criminals to register as businesses ...
Talk about absurdity.I don't know Fowler, but I doubt he was naive about this at all. He was using the absurdity of requiring criminal business registration, and carrying it to its absurd extremes, to highlight the absurdity of placing liability on citizens who repel criminals.jimlongley wrote:...This is a cute sounding idea that comes from a naive suburban mindset. ...
On article itself: The location is given as 4800 block of Castle Path. It appears that area is a very large subdivision, east and bit north of Fort Sam Houston. All the streets are named Castle: Castle Queen, Castle Sword, Castle Arms, Castle Knoll, Castle Bridge... it sounds like Forrest Gump's friend Bubba talking about shrimp.