{"id":2833,"date":"2014-08-08T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2014-08-08T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T23:07:35","slug":"malum-prohibitum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/malum-prohibitum\/","title":{"rendered":"MALUM PROHIBITUM"},"content":{"rendered":"

In legal theory, crimes are divided between malum prohibitum <\/em>and malum in se.\u00a0 <\/em>Translated from Latin, malum in se <\/em>means that the thing being described is evil in and of itself, and is probably so in every civilized society.\u00a0 Malum prohibitum <\/em>essentially says \u201cIt\u2019s bad because we prohibited it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Case in point: you are a responsible young single mom, gainfully employed in the medical profession to support your two little kids.\u00a0 Becoming the victim of a couple of crimes has caused you to arm yourself, go through training, and get a permit to carry a gun where you live, in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

After crossing a state line, you are pulled over in a routine traffic stop.\u00a0 You do what you think is the responsible thing: you advise the police officer that you are licensed to carry a gun and do have it with you.<\/p>\n

You are then placed under arrest, and find yourself facing a MANDATORY penalty of three years in prison and becoming a convicted felon for life, because the state you\u2019re now in is New Jersey, and they do not reciprocate with Pennsylvania or any other state on concealed carry permits.<\/p>\n

We gun folks know that the fifty states are a patchwork quilt with fifty different sets of laws. This young woman is not a gun person.\u00a0 She apparently didn’t know that a state that would recognize her driver\u2019s license wouldn’t recognize her carry license.\u00a0 Read about it here: http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/07\/16\/honest-mistake-leads-to-philly-mother-facing-three-years-on-gun-charge\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not the first to make this honest mistake, and won\u2019t be the last.\u00a0 (And, before anyone questions that it was an honest mistake, why would someone who knew they were breaking the law spontaneously tell the first cop they encountered that they were doing so?)\u00a0 This case is the very definition of malum prohibitum. <\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also why I and so many others have been calling for national reciprocity for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In legal theory, crimes are divided between malum prohibitum and malum in se.\u00a0 Translated from Latin, malum in se means that the thing being described is evil in and of itself, and is probably so in every civilized society.\u00a0 Malum prohibitum essentially says \u201cIt\u2019s bad because we prohibited it.\u201d Case in point: you are a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-legal-issues","9":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}