Brian Doherty on Human Sacrifices for Gun Control

Enough of
the American public believe that one should only face the severe
punishment of imprisonment for crimes that harm people or property
and/or indicate a propensity to continue doing so. When stories
spread about justice not working that way, public outcries can
dredge justice from injustice. A new memoir by Brian
Aitken, The Blue Tent Sky: How the Left’s War on Guns Cost
Me My Son and My Freedom, tells such a story of injustice
halted, often at excruciating, but always highly readable, length.
It’s the story of a man who meant no harm to anyone, who was doing
his best to obey a picayune regulation, and who by most evidence
was not even really violating the picayune regulation—New
Jersey’s Graves Act (which imposes certain mandatory
sentences on certain gun-related crimes)—for which he was sentenced
to seven years in prison, three of them mandatory without parole.
Senior Editor Brian Doherty reviews Aitken’s book, and critiques
the letter and practice of gun laws in Jersey and across the nation
that led to his injustice.

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