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To: marktwain

Easy to/change.
We had the same problem in Florida not so long ago with ever kooky liberal mayor making up their own laws.
Just put some teeth into the laws.


2 posted on 03/21/2014 8:12:03 AM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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To: bill1952

Gun rights violation costs city

November 20, 2010|Paul Carpenter

The taxpayers of Allentown just got stuck with an unnecessary $23,500 tab.

That may not be much in a city that treats tax money like the water flowing over the Hamilton Street Dam (proposed new budget: $88.5 million), but it might have been avoided if people paid to enforce the law could be persuaded to obey it themselves.

On Oct. 6, 2008, Jerry Corliss, a law-abiding citizen who then lived in Allentown, was carrying a Glock handgun in a holster when he visited the Home Depot store just off Lehigh Street. It appears that somebody there became hysterical over the idea that anyone not in government might exercise his or her right to bear arms.

Soon, according to court documents, Dale Stokes, an Allentown police officer, stormed into the store, detained Corliss for doing absolutely nothing illegal, searched him without a warrant and seized his pistol.

Corliss was not charged and the weapon was returned, but those actions clashed with both the Bill of Rights and the Pennsylvania Constitution, which will cost the city, or its insurance carrier, $23,500 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by Corliss, who now lives in Lebanon.

http://articles.mcall.com/2010-11-20/news/mc-paul-carpenter-gun-right-20101120_1_gun-control-allentown-lawyer-dale-stokes

You would be amazed at how fast changes are made when it is their pocketbooks which are hit.


4 posted on 03/21/2014 8:29:51 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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