Correct me if I'm wrong, but with regards to "speeding", for the most part it is a ticket, which can be paid through the mail. There is no need for a Public Defender, discovery, prosecution, judge and Jury. Under normal circumstances, you would not be handcuffed, your property taken from you, and hauled off to jail, forced to pay bail, and then have to return 2,3 maybe even 4 more times to get it all solved.
Now, if they are speeding, and they are drinking, and/or driving under a suspension, by all means, that is a crime. But, as far as I know Walking While White after midnight is not.
You tell me, you obviously are an advocate for the right to bear arms, correct?
If you are, how would you feel about having your gun taken away from you because you did something you were supposed to do, so not to break a law. Now, try to imagine for a minute that you are at a work party, and your car breaks down, and say you have to walk 2-3 miles through a pretty bad area late at night after bar close, in order to get home. Now, imagine that while you were at that work party, you had two maybe 3 drinks in the span of 4 to 5 hours, and your judgment was clear enough that you knew you would be okay to drive, had your car not broken down, and you also were of sound mind enough to know that you had to lock your car, call a tow truck in the morning, and walk safely to your destination. Now, would you get your gun out and carry it with you? Or, would you leave it in the car and walk those miles without your legal protection?
You must be missing the part where she was doing nothing other than walking and talking on the phone with a friend while she was upset, she wasn't legally drunk in comparison to driving while intoxicated. But, unfortunately, there is no standard to compare against, because the charge she was charged with, in my opinion, is a catch all charge, which even the officer's own Sgt. said " is there to basically get people off of the street".
You know,had she been in a car and driving, and had her gun closed in the glove-box, and the officer not known, he would have had to let her drive home. So, obviously, if he and the law makers thought that she could be trusted enough, to handle a 2 ton vehicle on the roads, late at night in the dark, after blowing a .06, then surely she was safe enough to be walking with her gun, secured inside of a zipped closed purse, with her legal CCW.
It's always so easy to play devil's advocate if it's not you in such a situation, but try to imagine you in the same situation, how would you feel? Like, perhaps that your rights were violated, and that maybe your $600.00 ,new 38- special, snub nose, Smith & Wesson, revolver, was stolen from you, and that possibly, by trying to be a lawful citizen, you were treated like a POS criminal and thrown jail? I think you just might!
Even trying to compare a speeding ticket to a charge like "using a weapon while intoxicated" is like comparing apples and oranges...it' just doesn't fly!
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