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Vepres
Junior Chimp
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« on: February 03, 2010, 05:48:12 PM »

Of course, if law enforcement treated it as a good excuse, every criminal would feign ignorance on laws that aren't "well known".
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Vepres
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 11:39:52 PM »

Of course, if law enforcement treated it as a good excuse, every criminal would feign ignorance on laws that aren't "well known".

If a law isn't very well known, there's a decent chance it shouldn't be a law at all.

     My thought exactly. Why have a law if it's so arcane that someone can reasonably claim to not know of it?

Generally such laws aren't really enforced, but yeah, they're still a waste of paper Tongue
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