Posted on 01/03/2012 4:08:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard
Ryan Jerome was enjoying his first trip to New York City on business when the former Marine Corps gunner walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he should check his gun.
That was when Jeromes nightmare began. The security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail.
The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.
Jerome has a valid concealed carry permit in Indiana and visited New York believing that it was legal to bring his firearm. He was traveling with $15,000 worth of jewelry that he planned to sell.
The online gun-law information Jerome read was inaccurate...
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And I'll ridicule anyone I know who expresses plans to go there, and do everything in my power to dissuade them.
BTW - I've been to a great many of these fifty states, and I might have been talked into going to Neo FascistYork state in the past, but never, now.
Why do you live in that den of Fascist slavers, anyway?
Family and business.
You have it right—I was born in Brooklyn 89+ yrs ago (nothing like it is now)-—enlisted in service 12/1941-—took my old job back 4/1947 and worked 2 weeks-—after being squashed in subway and trolley twice a day, left and only returned to bury family members-—will never go back to that rotten hellhole again-—advise all decent citizens to stay out of the liberal cesspool that is New York City-—cheers
You have it right—I was born in Brooklyn 89+ yrs ago (nothing like it is now)-—enlisted in service 12/1941-—took my old job back 4/1947 and worked 2 weeks-—after being squashed in subway and trolley twice a day, left and only returned to bury family members-—will never go back to that rotten hellhole again-—advise all decent citizens to stay out of the liberal cesspool that is New York City-—cheers
I’m not a city girl, but I’ll do Chicago if the family insists on something like that. I’ve been in NYC enough to know it’s not my type of environment. WAY too many rules!
Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957
re local carry rules:
How about the idea that a city cannot define any crime as a felony - that should be the prerogative of the states. After all, it is not the city that houses the “felon” for a year, but the state.
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