This is why we can't have nice things

[db42]

How do you exercise the right to open carry without getting attention?

You don't, because you're not allowed to do it anymore.

If we were still allowed to; you can open carry all you want - just don't hold a freakin' rally and don't open carry a rifle. The expressed point of the rallies were to "inform people" that they could open carry - in other words, they were meant to draw attention to it. Stupid.

Open carry activists were not inciting violence, or even threatening anyone, so your analogy is false.

Never said they were dufus.

All that they did was to prove that a right that is not regularly exercised will be lost/taken away.

Uh no, they drew attention to it and because of that it was taken away.

[SilverTauron]

Uh no, they drew attention to it and because of that it was taken away.

This is incorrect.

The rallies, as I recall, were in RESPONSE to proposed legislation banning the practice. The movement to ban OC was an artificial , media & government driven strawman churned up when the anti-gun CA government encountered RESISTANCE to their common-sense reforms.

The very phrase "taken away" sickens me. Firearm related rights are not privileges delegated to the citizenry like candy to kids. At least last year, some folks stood up to the Political Machine that's determined to grind us all into dust.

I'll say this much; OC sorted out who the doers and the bleaters were. As gun owners attacked other gun owners for exercising their rights, CA's government was laughing their arses' off in Sacramento.

[retiredAFcop]

Originally Posted by retiredAFcop View Post
Open carry activists were not inciting violence, or even threatening anyone, so your analogy is false.

Never said they were dufus.

Except right here:

You have free speech until you try to incite violence.
Adam Kokesh had freedom to post anything he wanted on the internet. He lost that freedom when he posted a video of himself loading a shotgun in a public plaza in DC (which is illegal in and of itself).

Please pay attention to what you have actually said before you start in with the name calling.

[five.five-six]

I find Vanessa Iderra more threatening with her oversized rear end and sassy attitude.

Statistically she should be far more concerned with her BMI than the free exercise of civil rights causing her death.


Why is it fat people that are always against civil rights?

[Sheperd80]

A guy who needs to carry a gun to pick up trash is mental. Open carry with his tacticool gear makes people nervous. Normal people do not walk down the street all geared up for war, 2nd amendment or not.

quoted from the vid: "I think the rifle is what scares everybody...because why do you need a rifle to pick up trash? Get a trash bag."

There's no mention the guy has any training whatsoever. All they say is that he's from a military family. If that's the case, why doesn't he just join the military or police force?

+1


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[five.five-six]

Kid seems mental, who carries a gun to pick up trash? He should be forced to quarter troops in time of peace.

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[Cypriss32]

Do we really need tacticool geeks like this pressing the 2nd amendment? I think he's a neighborhood nuisance that makes gun owners look bad.

Leave your keyboard and go back to your TV chair please.

[NoSpam]

Leave your keyboard and go back to your TV chair please.

i'm impressed with your ability to type without taking your hands off your guns.

[nil]

"Police say he's not breaking any laws because he's not pointing the gun at anyone or threatening anyone with it."

End of story. Move along. That should have been the first line spoken by the news anchors, not the last.

[five.five-six]

i'm impressed with your ability to type without taking your hands off your guns.

I'm impressed with your ability to type without using your brain.

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[dwtt]

This is incorrect.

The rallies, as I recall, were in RESPONSE to proposed legislation banning the practice. The movement to ban OC was an artificial , media & government driven strawman churned up when the anti-gun CA government encountered RESISTANCE to their common-sense reforms.

You are incorrect. The rallies were not a response to the legislation, and you should not misrepresent it as such.

[NoSpam]

I'm impressed with your ability to type without using your brain.

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I learned it from watching you

bwaaahhahahaha

[five.five-six]

Case in point.

[Khromo]

The Gun Grabbers love guys like the fool in the video.

Inadequate Personalities parading around in public screaming "LOOK AT ME!!! I HAVE THE RIGHT TO WANDER AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD ALL DRESSED UP LIKE A DEMENTED CLOWN!!! LOOK AT ME EXERCIZING MY RIGHT!!! LOOK AT HOW STUPID AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS I AM!!!"

This reminds me of the ACLU defending the right of the American Nazi Party to stage a march in full Nazi regalia through the Jewish neighborhood in Skokie, Illinois. Someone should shove that rifle up that kid's butt. Just because a person is aware they have a right doesn't mean they should make a mockery of it.

When people prove they have no idea how to exercise a right with simple common sense, it makes it a lot easier for the majority to justify stripping that right away.

If his family were worth a nickel, military or not, they would get the kid into intensive therapy, now.

[SilverTauron]

The Gun Grabbers love guys like the fool in the video.

Inadequate Personalities parading around in public screaming "LOOK AT ME!!! I HAVE THE RIGHT TO WANDER AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD ALL DRESSED UP LIKE A DEMENTED CLOWN!!! LOOK AT ME EXERCIZING MY RIGHT!!! LOOK AT HOW STUPID AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS I AM!!!"

This reminds me of the ACLU defending the right of the American Nazi Party to stage a march in full Nazi regalia through the Jewish neighborhood in Skokie, Illinois. Someone should shove that rifle up that kid's butt. Just because a person is aware they have a right doesn't mean they should make a mockery of it.

When people prove they have no idea how to exercise a right with simple common sense, it makes it a lot easier for the majority to justify stripping that right away.

If his family were worth a nickel, military or not, they would get the kid into intensive therapy, now.

Behold,the mindset of the hoplophobe!


The young man deserves a medal,because he is one of the few among his generation who actually knows what country he lives in.

Its too bad that you do not.