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The Wall Street Journal has some kind things to say about Plaxico Burress and the constitutionality of the concealed carry law he is charged under .

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All I know about New York prisons is that a guy who spent three years in Sing Sing on a weapons charge told me that if they know you will fight to the death, they won't bother trying to rape you.

If you ever do any hard time, you'll know who "they" are. There won't be any esoteric debate about the non-specificity of the word.

Ossining is just a short drive, Dannemora or Attica would be better IMO

Well, he's going to one of those places if Little Mikey Bloomberg has any say in the matter. He's been grandstanding something fierce on the incident. Even demanding the officials at the hospital that treated Burress be charged with a misdemeanor for not notifying the police of a gunshot wound. A hospital staff charged with a misdemeanor...is that for real?

people are issued permits in NY

Remember when people who couldn't, wouldn't or otherwise didn't pay a poll tax could not vote? Found unconstitutional in federal court. Same principle applies to concealed carry states. You don't pay, you can't play. The economics of obtaining a permit puts them out of reach for many people who need guns the most to defend themselves. This amounts to a defacto ban of handguns.

You can't carry without a permit in New York, so the law as written amounts to a total ban on carrying if you don't have a permit.

Total ban = unconstitutional.

Even if New York allowed open carry, the concealed carry law does not serve a narrow public interest that would justify it under strict or heightened scrutiny, if either of those are applied.

I'd better leave the rest to the expert:
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/07/14/ ... hats-next/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

LOL, The one that says don't Mexican carry a Glock.

Far as I can tell, Burress is just being charged with possession of an unpermitted concealed handgun under NY State law and faces up to three years in jail. Seven if they can prove he was out to get somebody with it. He got somebody, alright. KABOOM!!! Man, that must have been a shocker, right in his own pants.

Breaking an unconstitutional law hardly justifies a guilt trip.

Burrell could be just they guy to contest the constitutional legitimacy of New York's concealed carry law in the wake of Heller v. U.S. Rich, high profile, an out of state resident caught packing a gun for SD without a permit while traveling in an adjacent state who undoubtably doesn't want to go upstate to Sing Sing for the mandatory one-year jail term (if still NY law) for said offense. For the same reasons, I don't think the charge will be dropped. Being as Levy and Gurra are already revved up on the issues, what's another case when it's the perfect case?