You mean that's not the way it is now?EEllis wrote:There is also the difference between the letter of the law and how things were enforced. For years cops would basically use the knife and gun laws against people who they thought of as undesirable while ignoring offences from solid citizens. So if you were one of those solid citizens the state was pretty darn friendly and if you weren't? Well that's the thing isn't it.
Well put EEllis.
