"Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves," he says.Of course it would be, Pokey Poke. Then apes with sticks could rule the planet.
"Certainly, I haven't used a gun anywhere other than on a movie set and I'd like to see if we could take them all away. It would be a beautiful thing."
Correspondent Red Dot brought up the Pokester's troubled past with an instructor at Front Sight, and was told "all the troubles Pokey Poke had experienced were while a juvenile and thus sealed and inapplicable. And the 'internet rumors' were wrong."
Not according to the Suffolk County Clerk's Office for Criminal Business:
Has Mr. Wahlberg's record been expunged?I guess I'm going to need to start digging around again, and see if anything has changed since I spoke with them six years ago.
The answer was "No, it is public record."
Was defendant Wahlberg sentenced as a juvenile or as an adult?
"He was tried as an adult."
[Via 45superman]