Jailing his neighbor didn't make sense

This is my two cents for the day.

What is this about my neighbor John being locked up in prison for four years?

Some time ago, noticed an army of rigs and personnel come down on his home and shop like a snow slide. To the family inside, it must have been like a nightmare. Word got round it was a raid by all sorts of law.

This is a good, hard working, tax paying family. John built this really neat home, mostly by his own hands.

It’s the home where the American flag proudly flies high.

Now I thought surely this all must be a bad mistake and it’ll all come out in the wash. He pays the hundred dollar fine and they return the truck loads of private property to the family.

John’s always busy at work at mostly what he loves ans does best, repairing and building firearms. Guess that’s how all now-big name brands started out.

I understand the big problem was he built and sold a machine gun. Sometime ago I was at a leading sport store.

There for sale in a show case was a repo Thompson sub machine gun, canister included. It’s well that I didn’t buy it. I may not have the four years.

John needs to be home, being an asset to the community. We all make mistakes, why waste a craftsman? Besides, you can use that cell for that worthless drug dealer.

The old guy next door...

Paul Fossler

Coram