New Jersey gun case demonstrates no justice possible through ‘lawful’ avenues

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 18 January, 2011 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

“A late flight landed Utah gun owner Greg Revell in jail for 10 days after he got stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City,” the Associated Press reports.

Because of a late flight, Revell missed his connecting flight. His luggage had been erroneously routed to Newark. He collected it.

And he was then arrested, going through a nightmare that included “10 days in several different jails”—and think about that, and the type of terrifying population they had this man immersed in. He had charges hanging over his head for months, and his private property confiscated for years.

I wish some of us didn’t have to say “We told you so.”

And the government’s response?

Prosecutors said it doesn't matter whose fault it was…

And:

Lower courts have thrown out his lawsuit

They’re “sympathetic.” They even admit this entire injustice is “through no fault of [Revell’s].” But their hands are tied. Because one of the main purposes for having government in the first damn place, “to secure the Blessings of Liberty,” must take a back seat to treasonous, self-serving legislative and judicial perversions of the original mandate.

We’re told “the Supreme Court could decide Tuesday whether to consider letting Revell sue.”

They have:

Jan 18 2011 Petition DENIED.

A quote from John F. Kennedy comes to mind:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Don’t expect the anti-defense lobby to condemn this outrage, to agree that a gross injustice has occurred, and to call for it being rectified so that no citizen will ever again be so victimized by the state. All their talk about “common sense” and a “reasonable middle ground” is just that—talk. It’s a smokescreen to allow them to advance from their beachhead, never to ease back and practice some of that “compromise” they’re continually hitting us over the head with.

As things stand now, there is no relief from this injustice. Which kind of makes me wonder if these newly-empowered Republicans, the ones who’ve promised us they’re all for principled government—and who were put in power largely through the efforts of involved gun owners—are going to take the lead on fixing this obscene outrage.

Or will peaceful resolution remain impossible under their leadership, too?

[kbennkc]

Well good luck to you powerless bastards whose destiny and freedom is completely in the hands of the airlines and the baggage handlers. Pity you if you are dealt any real difficulty and you have to do something to ensure compliance with the law, how ever unconstitutional it is.
What do you want , To stay out of jail and fight to change the law or sit in jail divested of every civil right including the right to bear arm while you have an appeal. Can you cite the last time a criminal conviction for a gun violation was over turned as a violative of the second amendment rights of the defendant?

[kbennkc]

Sad your emails are just sad.

[OneWingedShark]

Wasn’t MacDonald v. Chicago just in the news a while back?

[ctdonath2]

You are very confused.