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Posted on 08/18/2014 5:35:48 PM PDT by raptor22
Second Amendment: An African-American single mom on her way to a birthday party for one of her kids faces 10 years in prison for straying into the Garden State carrying a firearm in her purse licensed in Pennsylvania.
Shaneen Allen is less well-known than Michael Brown, the man shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., and it's doubtful Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton will pay her a visit anytime soon. They're busy elsewhere. A mother exercising her Second Amendment right not only to keep but to bear arms to protect her family is of little interest to them.
Allen is a resident of Pennsylvania and has a Pennsylvania right to her permit. In October 2013, she was pulled over by New Jersey state troopers for an "unsafe lane change."
When one trooper approached and asked for her identification, she remembered she had left her newly acquired firearm in her purse, which can happen to a single mom who works more than one job and leaves her home at odd times of the day.
She had obtained the firearm after two robberies raised her concern for her and her family's safety.
She was arrested and charged with illegal possession of a firearm because she didn't realize that New Jersey is one of 20 states that does not recognize Pennsylvania's permit. Ignorance of this law is apparently no excuse for New Jersey authorities failing to see that here was someone who obtained a firearm to prevent crime and not to commit one.
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But but her name isn’t riiiiight. Seriously though we need to rally to her.
Anyone who knows New Jersey will tell you she’s f*cked.
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Why can’t she just be described as an American? Does being a hyphenated named ‘single mom’ afford her more sympathy from the masses or something? Would what happened be less significant if she had a husband at home?
If what happened to her is wrong or outrageous, than it is that way because she’s an American on American soil. Not because of her color or marital status or the bad breaks life has given her.
Maybe IBD doesn’t realize that giving their editorial a politically correct tone calls in to question its objectivity. Regardless of the merits of the editorial.
Why can’t she just be described as an American? Does being a hyphenated named ‘single mom’ afford her more sympathy from the masses or something? Would what happened be less significant if she had a husband at home?
If what happened to her is wrong or outrageous, than it is that way because she’s an American on American soil. Not because of her color or marital status or the bad breaks life has given her.
Maybe IBD doesn’t realize that giving their editorial a politically correct tone calls in to question its objectivity. Regardless of the merits of the editorial.
Her problem was GOING TO NJ!
I would never set foot in the state of New Jersey any more than I would the country of Mexico. And for the same reason.
A mother exercising her Second Amendment right not only to keep but to bear arms to protect her family is of little interest to them.
No, not “of little interest”; she is part of the problem for them; she is off the plantation and doesn’t need Jessie and Al’s help. This is a threat to their power base and their fund raising efforts.
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She’s got a defense fund.
http://gogetfunding.com/project/shaneen-allen-legal-defense-fund
It’s worth the $25 to destroy this kind of idiocy. She’s at $44K now.
I agree. I think one way to do that is for Freepers to keep posting articles on her and keeping her story alive.
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If they can get 12 jurors with an ounce of gray matter, she would walk.
I figure if the “full faith and credit” clause can be used to force states to accept gay marriage licenses issued in other states, then it can be used to force NJ to accept other states CCWs and pistol permits.
Her best hope is an insanity plea .... what reasonably sane person would voluntarily go to NJ?
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Normally, I would agree 100%. In this particular case, using her race, and even her single-Mom status, gives some perspective about what drives the Leftist race-baiters to protest. She is suffering a more egregious Constitutional abuse than the dead thug, but none of those who "demand justice or no peace" give a damn about her.
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