Second Amendment Blog
Open Carry Juvenile?
Posted by:Sebastian on 
Jun 22nd, 2008 | 
Filed under: Gun Rights
This article, which comes to us via The Brady Campaign’s version of the Gun Guys, starts off:
My 20-month-old nephew loves Elmo and Dora. He also has started making explosion and gunfire noises. I get the inevitability of little boys’ fascination for guns.
What I can’t figure out are the men and sometimes women who don’t grow out of the gun-crazy stage of childhood, who need to have a handgun on their hips at all times, who need their neighbors to notice.
Or maybe put another way, why do these pesky gay people insist on holding hands and smooching each other in public? What kind of derranged exhibitionists are they? I mean, we shouldn’t have any problems with people being gay, but do they have to be so in our face with it? Must they be gay out where everyone can see it?
UPDATE: More here.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
“OpenCarry.org, run by two Virginia gun lovers, claims 4,000 members nationwide”
interesting, their website shows 7,533 at the current moment
“Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank would rather gun owners get concealed weapon permits than carry openly.”
im sure he’d rather that criminals not be in his city too, but that doesnt happen…
“In light of Trolley Square, mall shootings, school shootings, anyone walking around with a gun potentially creates a lot of phone calls for us,” Burbank says. “How do you expect an officer to deal with that – other than to point a gun at them and go through the process [of elimination]? There’s no other way to make that determination safely without putting officers at risk.”
ahh the classic man with a gun call… it is simple… the dispatcher simply asks “is the man with the gun threatening anyone? or does he just have a holstered gun on his belt?” that is what some counties are doing… and it works fine…
“Legislators already have made that decision for us; we’re living in the modern heart of the wild, wild West.”
interesting note is that almost EVERY “wild, wild west” town had ordinances prohibiting open carry… plus those towns were remarkable less violent than Hollywood would have you believe…
June 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I do like how the only solution to a ‘man with a gun call’ is clearly to point a gun at a non-threatening individual and interrogate him.