The Anti-gun Laws That Make Progressives Uneasy

From my point of view, it may indeed be "possible" that someone with a criminal record was only illegally carrying a gun for his own protection, and not for any criminal purpose. Not likely, but "possible".
Yet we see not only convicted criminal's "illegal carrying", but use of guns in armed crime being bargained away by prosecutors who want a fast guilty plea. Of course, the criminal wants to resume his criminal career quickly.
Not so the case when an innocent person becomes a "law-breaker". That is intolerable to the "progressive" mind. If such a truly innocent person breaks an administrative gun-law, they must be punished severely, so that all similar non-criminals will obey the rules laid down for them in fear and trembling.
That was the case of Shaneen Allen, a nurse and mother, who committed the felonious "crime" of driving across the Delaware river into New Jersey, with a Pennsylvania CCW and a gun in her glove compartment. She was offered a "deal" of "only 3 years in prison", which implied the loss of her nurse's license.
That "deal" was offered by the same prosecutor who gave a "deal" to a pro football player, who was videotaped knocking his girlfriend unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator. That violent crime was rewarded with "pre-trial intervention" leading to the charges being dropped. But Shaneen, whose "crime" was no more a danger than overtime parking, had to be made an example of, for all those other peaceable citizens out there who might dare break those gun laws.

Thanks for sharing Brother Rick.

Interesting...