Hmm, lets see. Let his license plate registration lapsed because he didn't renew it in advance, and was driving in a state where he knew guns are highly restricted in possession.
It's nice Gov. Christie stepped in, but this was self inflicted career endangerment, same as an anti gun journalist having a gun in his luggage at check in. Actually, the anti gunners aren't prosecuted nearly as much.
I was reading a blog that suggested some of us may not be the best candidates to carry. Guns are serious business, being places with a gun when you aren't supposed to be has consequences, and lightly considering that as part of your responsibility has consequences.
Dropping your gun in the john, ND's reholstering, getting shot and killed when you oppose a shooter coming into a large public store. It's happening, and we need to discuss that some of us aren't really capable of carry.
Symptoms?
You get outed trying to conceal carry.
Your weapon has hit the ground more than once in five years.
You discover you're armed where you aren't supposed to be - like the Post Office.
You don't care to worry about any of the above.
Which results in
Getting tackled in a Walmart parking lot.
Having to leave the building to cover your poor gun retention.
Or, getting arrested with expired tags in a no possession state.
There is a less than lethal category of Darwin Awards we don't talk about, make excuses for, and then anoint when "some nice guy" gets caught - but the root cause is not taking it seriously enough.
None of this would happen if the gun owner would raise their standards of conduct to what is obviously the minimum - which they failed to accomplish.
The forums are full of it - incidents - and we need to quit making these guys saints when they were really just being too casual to do it right.
