How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Bruno

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Honestly reminds me more of the situation in Canada, but ISTR our legislation doesn't allow mercenaries.

I'm just glad my home state of Oregon doesn't allow bounty hunters. They're pretty much mercenaries not bound by laws that citizens or even cops are technically required to obey.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I'm just glad my home state of Oregon doesn't allow bounty hunters. They're pretty much mercenaries not bound by laws that citizens or even cops are technically required to obey.

Bounty hunters are required to obey the same laws as everybody else. The stuff people do tend to think of as special powers actually aren't all that broad, and anybody else who stood surety on somebody else's bail bond has the same rights. In a sense letting somebody post your bond is a mild form of selling yourself into slavery. Or appointing that person your legal guardian if you want a nicer analogy - it really doesn't permit much a parent couldn't do to a child.

Mind you many prosecutors tend to exercise discretion and not pursue violations too vigorously, but that's a somewhat different issue.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I'm just glad my home state of Oregon doesn't allow bounty hunters. They're pretty much mercenaries not bound by laws that citizens or even cops are technically required to obey.

It's not really that they have special rights, it's that skips have special lack of rights.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's not really that they have special rights, it's that skips have special lack of rights.

Bounty hunters are allowed to commit all sorts of violent privacy breaking acts that would be crimes for anyone else.

[Zeta Blaze]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Bounty hunters are allowed to commit all sorts of violent privacy breaking acts that would be crimes for anyone else.

but only against the property and effects of the individual under bail which as Anthony points out is more a case of the bonde surrendering there rights. Prosecution and civil penalties can and are enforced for acts against others. Further these rights mirror in many ways custodial rights of parents over children. Though they do justify creating unusual circumstances that allow greater liberty in use of citizens arrest and self defense as you have a legal justification for normally unacceptable escalations. All of that is just the logical consequence of normally rarely used civil rights to engage in violence (citizens arrest, self defense, defense of others). That coupled with an increase in what is legal to do that could provoke violent response and an acceptable reason to preform those actions all lead to an apparent large increase in legal power that is mostly an illusion. Though this dose create areal substantial increase in violence preformed but we expect a like increase for private security of almost all types (which i assume you accept as legitimate).