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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1383045" data-attributes="member: 14668">I don&#039;t know how to post links. Could someone please look up the Shaneen Allen case in New Jersey and post a link to it? Basically we have a gainfully employed, law-abiding, African-American mother who...after being robbed twice...legally purchased a handgun, got the background checks and the training, and obtained a Pennsylvania concealed handgun license in order to protect herself and her family. Her crime? Driving across the river into New Jersey under the mistaken assumption that her permit (valid in 30 other states) was recognized there. After getting&nbsp; pulled over by the police for a traffic infraction she notified the officer that there was a gun in her purse and was promptly handcuffed and put in jail for 40 days. She is now facing almost 10 years in prison if convicted, for doing nothing more than crossing a state line.What is particularly disgusting about this case is that the same judge and prosecutor who granted Pre Trial Intervention (basically probation and a warning+ community service) to NFL player Ray Rice for beating his fiancé unconscious in an elevator have chosen to deny this opportunity to Ms. Allen even though she is a nurse with no criminal record and who is not being charged with a violent crime.I cant wait to hear what sort of spin TOS tries to put on this one. He constantly rails against white male gun owners killing their families and being the root of all evil....what about a law-abiding African American mother of two? Does she really deserve 10 years in prison for doing nothing more than crossing a line on a map?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1383045, member: 14668"] I don't know how to post links. Could someone please look up the Shaneen Allen case in New Jersey and post a link to it? Basically we have a gainfully employed, law-abiding, African-American mother who...after being robbed twice...[I]legally[/I] purchased a handgun, got the[I] background checks and the training[/I], and obtained a Pennsylvania concealed handgun license in order to protect herself and her family. Her crime?[U] Driving across the river into New Jersey[/U] under the mistaken assumption that her permit (valid in 30 other states) was recognized there. After getting pulled over by the police for a traffic infraction she notified the officer that there was a gun in her purse and was promptly handcuffed and put in jail for 40 days. She is now facing almost[B] 10 years in prison[/B] if convicted, for doing [I]nothing more than crossing a state line[/I]. What is particularly disgusting about this case is that the same judge and prosecutor who granted Pre Trial Intervention (basically probation and a warning+ community service) to NFL player Ray Rice for [B]beating his fiancé unconscious in an elevator [/B]have chosen to[B] deny [/B]this opportunity to Ms. Allen even though she is a nurse with [I]no[/I] criminal record and who is [I]not[/I] being charged with a violent crime. I cant wait to hear what sort of spin TOS tries to put on this one. He constantly rails against white male gun owners killing their families and being the root of all evil....what about a law-abiding African American mother of two? [B]Does she really deserve 10 years in prison for doing nothing more than crossing a line on a map?[/B] [/QUOTE]

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