Remember this....
Is a jury of "your peers" REALLY your peers..??
I have sat in a jury pool a few times. I will say that from what i saw "Peers" is HIGHLY subjective. You are going to get a cross section of people who have not been in trouble with the law and are not complete idiots. I think they weeded out the flakes pretty fast. Normal folks is the majority, but what i tell people in my Concealed Carry class is, they are not likely to be hard core gun people. Think your average nurse, school teacher, factory worker, it is a cross section. Would a normal person believe you were behaving like they would in that situation? I will say that normal people do not carry "assault rifles" (i know, i know) in their car. If you happen to "show up" at a riot, and just happen to have an AR15 on the seat beside you, and you kill a bunch of people.... you are probably going to jail. You are going to have to come up with a real good reason why you had that gun and were in that area... That is going to be my un-lawyerly educated guess - take that advice for how much you paid for it.
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