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Originally Posted by robwod
If you're that careless that you "forget" you have a gun in your car -- loaded or not -- then I certainly think that says something about his sense of responsibility, or lack thereof.
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Not really. Go out to the country. Carrying weapons is not a big deal at all. Carrying weapons is only a big deal to city people. He could have easily forgotten about the gun.
I flew cross-country once with my brother. On our way back, he got stopped by the TSA because he had a deer knife in his backpack. He forgot about it. The guy was nice, said no problem, just go mail it. That situation with my brother could easily have been blown out of proportion, just like it sounds this gun situation is.
Real smuggling is a big deal. It should be addressed. Was this guy really smuggling a gun? Sure doesn't sound like it, but if he was, fine, jail him. If not, jailing him for smuggling goes the purpose of smuggling laws. Is that what we want to start doing? Ignoring intention of laws? It's bad enough as is, let's step it up a notch?
You guys go on and on about jailing people for drug use and you think it's totally appropriate to jail this guy because he took a wrong road and forgot about something in his car.