The Pitfalls of Open Carry

[Tyris]

That is like saying "last year Timmy drove drunk and killed a family on this stretch of road, so this year we will stop and detain every driver that comes by". Afterall, cars are "deadly weapons" too.

This is the broken logic behind "sobriety check points".
The Neo-prohibitionists have pushed that agenda successfully, and bone heads egg them on with the "driving is a privilege" crap.

-T

 

[Armueller2001]

If I could open carry, I would do it every day, everywhere that I could. I am proud of my country and would be proud to exercise my civil rights if I didn't live in a state which thought itself to be above the U.S. Constitution.

Totally agree. Gotta love Illinois, huh?

 

[Picard]

Yeah, gotta love it.

 

[Standing Wolf]

People who are afraid to exercise our civil rights don't still have them.

 

[wally]

In this particular situation, for this particular agent, "gun" = "potential bad guy". The logic of that is horribly flawed.

Ya think?

In this particular situation, for this particular agent, "(Insert name of disadvantaged minority)" = "potential bad guy" would have him off the force in a heartbeat!

I'd bet that gangbanger profiling would be far more effective than harassing gun owners, but can't bother the gangbangers as they need to blame the guns for their crimes!

--wally.

 

[VARifleman]

Herr Weiner

Transvestite?

XDKingslayer, this statement makes no sense, taking Herr to be German, it would be Mr. Weiner, not Mrs. Weiner, which would be Frau Weiner.

I like open carry, if you don't, fine, don't do it, but don't try to tell me that I'm hurting the cause by exercising my rights.

 

[crebralfix]

The police open carry every day.

 

[3KillerBs]

...
But making change happen isn't always about doing what's right for me. Sometimes you gotta grit you teeth and suck it up.
...

I'm probably phrasing this badly and I know I'm using politically incorrect terminology, but, ...

In the old-fashioned words of the way I was raised, it takes a real man to do what's right when right isn't easy.

I wish society would rediscover this concept.

 

[Sistema1927]

Maybe a better title for this thread would be:

The Pitfalls of living where the Police don't know the laws