Posted on 01/03/2012 5:02:44 PM PST by SmithL
Free Meredith Graves!
Just about everyone in the country now knows about the Louisville, Tenn., woman who was arrested when she tried to check her gun at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
The nurse and medical student had driven to New York with her husband to interview for a residency at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Long Island. While in the Big Apple, they decided to do a little sightseeing.
Graves has a Tennessee handgun carry permit and had a loaded .32-caliber Kel-Tec in her purse. When she saw the no-guns symbol at the memorial, she asked a guard where to check her weapon and abruptly found herself under arrest and facing a 3½-year minimum sentence for violating New York's strict gun laws.
"She was being honest," Graves' mother-in-law, who lives in New Jersey, protested to the New York Post. "Everyone down there carries, and she just forgot."
The incident reinforces an array of silly stereotypes.
Graves, an educated professional, is cast in the role of an aw-shucking, dunderheaded hillbilly, down from the hollers where the folks all pack heat.
New York City, America's hometown during the Twin Towers tragedy, presents itself as an effete enclave where rampant fear and liberalism have gnawed to death all signs of common sense.
The risks are real, though.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
In the true spirit of FR. She is NOT GUILTY. She can be my doctor anytime.
PAY ATTENTION: Going to the Northeast Corridor of the United States with firearms is like going to a communist dictatorship with guns if caught you will be imprisoned regardless of what you believe your Constitutional rights are !!!!
The governments of the various states of the Northeast Corridor (yes I mean all three branches )don’t give a damn about the Constitution . Understand this when you go there .
“PAY ATTENTION: Going to the Northeast Corridor of the United States with firearms is like going to a communist dictatorship with guns if caught you will be imprisoned regardless of what you believe your Constitutional rights are !!!!
The governments of the various states of the Northeast Corridor (yes I mean all three branches )don’t give a damn about the Constitution . Understand this when you go there .”
I wonder what would be involved in organizing a boycott...
There areall sorts of ways - leagal or not - to avoid paying a judgment.
The plaintiff probably couldn’t find an attorney to go after the judgment because the payoff for an attorney made in not worthwhile.
somehow I don’t think you do. Maybe you check the gun laws, but if you really check out ALL the laws every time you visit another state, you’d be a very busy person. The Ohio Revised Code alone would be entail quite a bit of homework.
I think the bottom line here is that this person was trying to do the right thing and we need to focus on the bad people. This is why so many people HATE our legal system, even though it is the best in the world.
That is absolutely right. One must know the laws of any state in which they possess a firearm.
The Stasi have jackboots, badges and guns.
Reason?
They don't need no steeenkin' reason.
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