Mike Huckabee's son arrested with handgun - D'oh!

[devilgrrl]

Huckabee's son arrested with handgun


By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at an Arkansas airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage.
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"I removed the bag and asked Mr. Huckabee if he knew what he had in the bag," Little Rock police officer Arthur Nugent wrote in a report after being summoned to a security checkpoint. "He replied he did now."

Huckabee, 26, later pleaded guilty in Little Rock District Court after being charged with a misdemeanor count of possessing a weapon in a prohibited place.

"It was a silly mistake," Huckabee told reporters as he left the Pulaski County Jail. When asked whether it would affect his father's presidential campaign, Huckabee responded, "It shouldn't."


more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail_47

[Horse with no Name]

1. A misdemeanor?

I wonder if he had been a different color or political stripe if he wouldn't have been on a no-fly list.

[sandnsea]

8. I know

Maybe this is where my memory is going - it's being destroyed every time one of this incidents happen and little sparks fly through every brain cell in my head.

Fighting terrorism and one of the most important elements in that supposed war - can be reduced to a friggin' MISDEMEANOR.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OlderButWiser]

2. I guess I tend to agree with

"It was a silly mistake," Huckabee told reporters as he left the Pulaski County Jail. When asked whether it would affect his father's presidential campaign, Huckabee responded, "It shouldn't."

On the flip side his father's connections shouldn't get him a lighter sentence.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Why did he need a gun to travel?

:shrug:

[benEzra]

17. I've flown with a gun before...

when I was flying from FL to NC to buy my sister's Camry from her, and was going to drive it back home late at night (I am authorized to carry in all the states I was going to pass through).

BUT, I had the gun unloaded, slide locked back, trigger lock on it, locked in a hardside box inside a locked hardside suitcase, declared the gun at the ticket counter per FAA rules, and it was in my CHECKED baggage. That's legal.

I am always paranoid about accidentally bringing a prohibited item in my carryon bags when flying, so I check my bags religiously when I'm packing to go to the airport. I can see how something like this could happen accidentally if you previously backed a bag for a road trip and then decided to fly, but I personally don't think I would forget to follow FAA regs. I'll bet this guy is really kicking himself...

[flobee1]

4. "It shouldn't."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


do they really believe what they say or is it just arrogance?

[kestrel91316]

5. Two things to note here:

1) Obviously laws are for the little people.
2) The apple probably didn't fall far from the tree.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[madrchsod]

6. a loaded gun?

[hogwyld]

7. We need ban guns now!

If for no other reason than to keep these type of ignorant people from getting their hands on them...

[whistle]

9. Any history of mental illness of deviant behavior?

[jmg257]

10. What a jerk off! How do you make THAT "mistake"?

And how did he possibly think he would get away with it??

[onethatcares]

11. think about it,

a loaded 9mm gets put into a suitcase and thru a screeners viewer. I know for a fact that you don't just take a loaded handgun and stuff it into the luggage, or you are an IDIOT. What? He didn't realize it was a gun he put in his luggage? He didn't realize it was loaded? Where the hell do these people get off with those excuses? If I lost one of my handguns, do I just say, "well, I hadn't seen it in a month or so, I was hoping it would show up somewhere in the house or the yard" These are weapons folks, nothing about them should be taken lightly.

And, Yes, he should face more than a misdemeanor, and it should show the world how stupid his dad is.

[HerbieHeadhunter]

12. He is very demented. When he was younger, he and another...

boy captured a stray dug, strung it up in a tree and slit it's throat before stoning it to death.

http://www.utopiarescue.com/oldsite/stop_animal_torture.htm

He is quite well known in Arkansas for not being a stable kid.

[MissMarple]

13. Apparently, this does happen. A woman was stopped here for the same thing.

She forgot she had a loaded gun in her carry on luggage this week. She did have a permit. An airport spokesman said this happens about once a year. Totally innocent. Some people travel with their handguns and forget they have them when next traveling by plane.

Now, I must add, that young man needs a healthy diet and some exercise.

I deleted that last sentence...bad idea.

[lpbk2713]

14. He can't be exceptionally bright.

Maybe it runs in the family.

[TwilightGardener]

15. "Ah lahk french-frahd PUR-taters, uhmmhmmm..."

[karlrschneider]

16. I can tell by looking at this character...he's one I do NOT want to have a gun.

:eyes:
And I don't say that about very many people.

[Ilsa]

18. I wonder if Officer Nugent is related to that infestation

known as Ted covered-in-dried-feces-to-avoid-Vietnam Nugent?

[Ilsa]

19. Several years ago a physician in San Antonio got caught with

a pistol going through security at the airport. I think he had to pay a 5,000 fine.