Posted on 08/28/2015 5:02:43 AM PDT by rellimpank
At 27, Adele Langkil, mother of a 4-year-old son in Virginia, got her first extended break from her jobs as a single parent and waitress when her parents took the boy for a weekend. She spent a few days in New York.
Refreshed, returning home to Virginia Beach, she checked her bag at La Guardia Airport. It was 1985 and airline screening was not as rigorous as it is today, but the authorities noted that there was a handgun in the luggage.
“I was working as a waitress at night,” Ms. Langkil recalled Thursday. “A couple of people followed the girls home. I got a little gun. You didn’t have to have a permit in Virginia if it wasn’t concealed.”
For carriage of the gun, she was delivered to Rikers Island and charged with attempted criminal possession of a weapon and eventually posted a bail bond of $10,000.
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For carriage of the gun, she was delivered to Rikers Island and charged with attempted criminal possession of a weapon and eventually posted a bail bond of $10,000. This was an easy catch and looks good in the local papers but the fact is these idiot politicains cant control illegal guns and gang activity and its getting worse.
Liberal hellholes!!!
That’s unfortunate and all, but to try to carry a firearm, even a “little gun” as she calls it, is pretty dumb. If we’re going to exercise our rights to carry firearms, it behooves us to know the laws of the states we intend to visit.
Yes. I refuse to visit states that won’t trust me to be armed.
Such as, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"?
How is it stupid to exercise an inalienable right? New York has no legit authority to do what they did - the women did nothing wrong, the govt was wrong here.
All states laws against carrying a firearm are unconstitutional. (based on the same liberal logic that gave us homosexual “marriage”.)
But she concealed it, anyway? And then traveled to New York with the gun concealed? And was arrested in New York? And it's somehow the gun's fault?
This discussion has nothing to do with the Constitutionality of laws that infringe on my rights. This discussion has to do with somebody who didn't pay attention to the laws which can severely inconvenience her life in years to come.
Put your money where your mouth is. Open carry into a post office. Protest that law. Better yet, open carry into LaGuardia airport and demand to board a plane. You're cowards if you don't. Then come back here and boast about what true patriots you are.
And the fact that you geniuses are defending her tells me that FR has once again been infested with mindless libertarians. Seriously, don't you people have your own venue to vent? Oh, I forgot, you don't. You're just some fringe group to whom no one pays attention.
Carry on.
I don’t think the primary point of the article is about 2Am issues.
This is about the Left’s effort to avoid disclosing felonies when you apply for a job. Awful lot more Obama supporters out here affected by that, but they’re using a rightwing perspective to lay support for a leftwing initiative.
If I’ve got an employee wit a felony, I want to know it. I’ll decide whether it’s worth a waiver or not. And for the corporate idiot who is every bit as unthinking as a government bureaucrat, a bookkeeper/accountant who knows how to and isn’t afraid to pack heat isn’t a bad thing.
Actually, no different from accidentally leaving a bag of weed in your purse. You should think about these things.
IS that a fact?
Refreshed, returning home to Virginia Beach, she checked her bag at La Guardia Airport. It was 1985 and airline screening was not as rigorous as it is today, but the authorities noted that there was a handgun in the luggage.
Purse?...or checked luggage?
This discussion has nothing to do with the Constitutionality of laws that infringe on my rights. This discussion has to do with somebody who didn't pay attention to the laws which can severely inconvenience her life in years to come.
You don't determine what a conversation is about. A woman made a pretty simple mistake, and was thrown in jail over blatantly unconstitutional laws, laws which, if there were any rationality to the court system, would have been nullified. You might want to ignore these facts but others think they are important.
Put your money where your mouth is. Open carry into a post office. Protest that law. Better yet, open carry into LaGuardia airport and demand to board a plane. You're cowards if you don't. Then come back here and boast about what true patriots you are
. What point are you trying to make here? Do you think that people that oppose unconstitutional laws are somehow required to brazenly break the law and go to jail to prove...what? I don't follow your lack of logic here at all, in fact it's so plainly moronic that it's giving me a headache.
And the fact that you geniuses are defending her tells me that FR has once again been infested with mindless libertarians. Seriously, don't you people have your own venue to vent? Oh, I forgot, you don't. You're just some fringe group to whom no one pays attention..
Why do you think that defending someone for being thrown in jail for unconstitutional laws is somehow mindlessly libertarian? For that matter why do you think that your overly emotional, illogical, name calling, screed gives you any room to be calling other people mindless?
Too much name calling and behooving going on here. It is entirely the fault of New York!!!!!!!!
Choosing to deny God given rights and thwarting the intent of the Constitution of the United States of America should bring the outrage of the people down on the state until the situation is rectified.
No such outrage equals an oppress the people, don’t give a damn, out of control, rogue state.
Only because of the unconstitutional laws related to that. It never really was about citizens carrying firearms onto planes. It is all about criminals and terrorist carrying firearms onto planes. Our government seems incapable or unwilling to address the actual problems.
Profile, profile, profile!
It was in her checked suitcase, not her purse.
The real issue is they made it a crime to defend yourself in a seriously dangerous situation when you have a constitutional right to have a gun in this society.
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