"We agree, everyone should use common sense - which is what prosecutors in New York do," Bloomberg spokesman Marc LaVorgna told the News. "Common sense also includes checking gun laws before traveling - something even the NRA tells people to do."

Yeah, but if she used common sense she couldn't hold herself up as some kind of 2nd Amendment martyr, so you can understand the pickle she was in.

She's a dumbass for bringing her gun with her without checking the laws in the state she was traveling to. End of story.

/gun owner

I'm not saying gun owners lack common sense, but....

Yet Republicans want to give states more power over citizens rights so stuff like this would become more common.

Isn't just being a New Yorker in Tennessee punishment enough?

I gotta say, the cops were kind of pricks. They could have given them a warning, especially if they were from out of state.

Gun owners should realize the laws before they travel. Not only that, but a true gun owner knows about New Yorks Draconian Hand Gun Laws..

keylock71: She's a dumbass for bringing her gun with her without checking the laws in the state she was traveling to. End of story.

/gun owner

This. Though it must be admitted that a smarter, better man than Bloomberg wouldn't dignify what the guy from Tennessee said with a comment.

\wannabe gun owner
\\I love New York, it's their politicians and sports teams I hate

This is a stupid showboat response from this guy and doesn't help with the plea negotiations that are currently taking place.

keylock71: She's a dumbass for bringing her gun with her without checking the laws in the state she was traveling to. End of story.

/gun owner

This. How stupid do you have to be to assume that just because you have a license to carry in one state, it's transferable to all states? The last time I visited my family in FL, my mother gave me my father's .357. Before I left, I checked the laws in every state along the I-95 corridor to make sure I would be in compliance w/the strictest.

MeinRS6: This is a stupid showboat response from this guy and doesn't help with the plea negotiations that are currently taking place.

Mother of God. That makes perfect sense.

What have you done with the real MeinRS6?

Tennessee Rep. Frank Niceley doesn't want to be nice to New Yorkers driving through his state

Both of them.

sigdiamond2000: Yeah, but if she used common sense she couldn't hold herself up as some kind of 2nd Amendment martyr, so you can understand the pickle she was in.

Even as a 2nd amendment martyr, she's doing a lousy job. You have a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws, but you do so from a position of willfulness, not ignorance. "Oopsie, I didn't know," is not a defense. "Your law is unjust and shouldn't withstand challenge," is.

One of the biggest things drilled into us at the gun safety course I took in MA was NOT TO TAKE GUNS INTO NY.

FriarReb98: keylock71: She's a dumbass for bringing her gun with her without checking the laws in the state she was traveling to. End of story.

/gun owner

This. Though it must be admitted that a smarter, better man than Bloomberg wouldn't dignify what the guy from Tennessee said with a comment.

\wannabe gun owner
\\I love New York, it's their politicians and sports teams I hate

Yeah, he shouldn't have acknowledged this hillbilly's little temper tantrum... A short "Duly Noted" would have sufficed.


brigid_fitch: keylock71: She's a dumbass for bringing her gun with her without checking the laws in the state she was traveling to. End of story.

/gun owner

This. How stupid do you have to be to assume that just because you have a license to carry in one state, it's transferable to all states? The last time I visited my family in FL, my mother gave me my father's .357. Before I left, I checked the laws in every state along the I-95 corridor to make sure I would be in compliance w/the strictest.

Exactly. It's entirely the owners' responsibility to know and be in compliance with the applicable laws in each state they're traveling in.

I guarantee this woman's handgun is used more as a fashion accessory than for any kind of "self-defense".

"Look at me! I'm a rugged individual!" *rolls eyes*

To be fair, we've got enough terrible drivers without New Yorkers driving here too.

GAT_00: To be fair, we've got enough terrible drivers without New Yorkers driving here too.

I've driven in a lot of states and can tell you that overall, New Yorkers are pretty much mid-pack when it comes to bad driving.

If you really want to see world-class bad drivers, you need to go to MA or AZ.

Also, as far as I've seen, New Yorkers are the only drivers in the country who know how to properly merge. If you take a Los Angeles freeway and find a spot where it goes from 6 lanes into 5, there's a 3 mile backup. Now go to the Lincoln Tunnel and watch New Yorkers merge from 9 lanes into 1... it's like a farking ballet.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: If you really want to see world-class bad drivers, you need to go to MA or AZ.

Worst I've ever found is Maryland.

GAT_00: Eddie Adams from Torrance: If you really want to see world-class bad drivers, you need to go to MA or AZ.

Worst I've ever found is Maryland.

Montreal... From my experience anyway. I'm a Masshole, and those crazy bastards were scaring the shiat out of me.

GAT_00: Eddie Adams from Torrance: If you really want to see world-class bad drivers, you need to go to MA or AZ.

Worst I've ever found is Maryland.

Pennsylvanians are also bad drivers, at least those from Philly.

Rapmaster2000: Be careful residents of New York City. When Tennessee Troopers see those New York City plates you're gonna be in a whole heap o' trouble.

New York City plates?

Individuals who own and who normally carry firearms who wish to travel to New York bear a responsibility to understand that the city of New York does neither honors nor respects the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and that the city imposes unreasonable and entirely unjustified restrictions upon civilian firearm possession.

Vodka Zombie: I'm not saying gun owners lack common sense, but....

There's reasonable gun owners. We just don't rant about gubmint takin aur gunz or complain about laws prohibiting us from walking into a bank or Presidential speech with a loaded .45 auto.

/gun/bow owner
//use them for hunting, skeet, trap, target shooting
///don't carry in public, cuz I'm neither cop nor coward

saintstryfe: Agreed - however i'd quantify it by saying that New York City residents are generally very good drivers, at least those whom choose to drive. Upstate drivers are much less patient and less good - closer to Mass. But still better.

You know who suck at driving? Westchester people. Holy moley, are they just plain awful drivers. Not that their roads help any, either.

I kind of feel for her. Yeah, yeah, liberal with sympathy, but as a relatively new resident of NYC I checked state laws about length of pocket knives and felt comfortable carrying the one I always carried in Chicago. Turns out there's a NYC administrative code that has nothing to do with the length of the knife, just that one cannot be showing on a person. If it was concealed? No biggie unless they had a reason to search me.. but because the officers could see the clip in my pocket, they confiscated it and gave me a court date.

So.. it wasn't concealed, which was an offense. Ooookay!

/csb
//court date assigned was for a sunday, so they told me it was thrown out
///wouldn't return the knife. :/
////would cost more to fight that than just get a new one

thornhill: Worst drivers are in Alabama

Nonsense. Alabama drivers aren't that bad at all. Maryland drivers swerve in and out of wherever the hell they feel like without signals and drive either 15 under or 30 over.