Deductable?

via Acidman

A bank robber has been allowed to claim the £1,400 cost of the gun he used
as a legitimate business expense.

The 46-year-old criminal was able to set the price of the pistol
against his gross proceeds of £4,700, which he stole in the southern Dutch town
of Chaam.
Jailing him for four years, the judge at Breda criminal court
reduced his fine by that amount.
The Dutch prosecutors' service said
yesterday that the judge had followed sound legal precedents.

Leendert De Lange, a spokesman, said: "You can compare criminal acts to
normal business activities, where you must invest to make profits, and thus you
have costs."

Read the rest. Oy. Citizens are treated like criminals when they defend themselves and crimals are treated like legitimate businessmen when they deduct the "tools of the trade". Good grief. And Michael Moron thinks we should be more European? Over my dead body.