The Donkey
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Possible. Need to find out what he did and what he is charged with.
Possible. Need to find out what he did and what he is charged with.
Aren't gunshot wounds supposed to be reported to the police by the hospital?Gordie wrote:Apparently he not only escaped being arrested at the time, but was allowed to give the gun to a friend of his to take away.If it had been any average citizen they would have been arrested on the spot, and thegun would have been confiscated. If the gun had been passed off to a friend, they would have been charged with illegal possession and with interfering with a criminal investigation by removing evidence.
This is ridiculous.New York does not recognize another states CCW permit, so unless he had a NY permit he was breaking the law. Even though most of us believe that we should have the right to carry without the requirement of a permit, going to a club and getting drunk is not something very many of us would advocate while carrying.He was also apparently drunk, just like a car and alcohol don't mix, neither do guns and alcohol. If you have to go out and get drunk, be responsible and let someone else stay sober and provide security.
What a disgrace.
According to the reports that I read the police were not even notified after he went to the hospital soI can't blame the ploice on this. You are correct that the club owner/manager would have had most of us arrested but it seems that this was withheld from the police. Both have now been arrested.
Guns do not have the capacity to be evil... Should be telling her that when guns go off when unintended it is because of a irresponsible owner.I was recently telling my daughter how evil guns "go off"
+1I would agree that this could be used as a test case if it weren't for the fact that he screwed up in several ways. If the only law broken was one against the carry of a gun that would be great, but it would appear that more than this went on.
He also violated several rules of common sense dealing with the handling of firearms. This is evident in the fact that he shot himself. If you want to make a test case you need to find a better example. This is embarrassing to responsible gun owners everywhere. We don't want to hold him up as an example of who we all are. The anti's already try to portray gun owners as ignorant dolts, don't let us help them in this by making Plaxico our poster boy.
That is an interesting perspective to which I do not have an immediate thoughtful response. I'm going to have to mull over your thoughts.We have at least a half-century (more, really) of precedent in which rapists, murderers, and scoundrels of every stripe reach the Supreme Court with their test cases. The ACLU and their like-minded fellows always tell us to "consider the principle" they're defending, and not the character of the appellant. So excuse me if I'm fresh out of embarrassment just because this guy was a doof who shot himself. I've been a doof at times myself. I say attack the unconstitutional statutes in NY and "consider the principle."