{"id":2524,"date":"2010-12-22T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2010-12-22T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:38:44","slug":"merry_christmas_to_brian_aitke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2524","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas To Brian Aitken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/12\/20\/nj-gov-chris-christie-commutes-aitkens-sentence\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>&nbsp;reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken&#8211;reducing his sentence from seven years in prison to time already served.&nbsp; Brian Aitken was sentenced to prison because in 2009 police found unloaded guns in the trunk of his car.&nbsp; The guns had been purchased legally in Colorado where Mr. Aitken lived.&nbsp; The guns were properly stored and unloaded.&nbsp; Mr. Aitken was in the process of moving his household to New Jersey to be closer to his son and had not yet registered the guns in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;New Jersey law requires residents who want to transport firearms legally to request a permit from a local law enforcement office and produce a letter stating why it is necessary for them to carry a gun.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the surface it seems as if this man is no threat to society.&nbsp; His true crime may have been ignorance of the law or procrastination.&nbsp; Moving from one state to another is not usually all that complicated, and Mr. Aitken may have simply not gotten around to registering his guns.&nbsp; He was used to living in a state where gun possession&nbsp;is more common than it is in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why did New Jersey intend to spend taxpayers&#8217; money to keep a man who was making a positive contribution to society locked up in jail for seven years?&nbsp; I am glad Governor Christie has commuted this sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the Daily Caller&nbsp;reported that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken&#8211;reducing his sentence from seven years in prison to time already served.&nbsp; Brian Aitken was sentenced to prison because in 2009 police found unloaded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}