Tasered for openly carrying rifle in Texas

[riddler408]

Bolded.....is incorrect. They RESPOND to calls that are placed.....but once on scene they are required and expected to come to their own conclusions based on what their training and experience tell them AND.....WHAT THE LAW IS!

They don't have to like it.....but if what you're doing isn't illegal they need to pound sand.....and this crap of we're gonna think of every excuse we can to find something to ding you on in retaliation for doing something we don't like even though it's legal is BS.

Exactly!!

[ChaoSS]

Dumb *** kid should of just went home the first time he was asked to and he never would of been tazed. I know a lot of people here are defending his rights bla bla bla. But in the end this will lead to more restrictions because it's just plain stupid. He has no reason to be out at night with a chambered Ar.

Thanks for wasting the Leo's time and taxpayer money dumb ***

You have spent far, far, too much time in California. Wake up and smell the freedom.


What many call baiting cops is only baiting cops if the cops are enforcing bad laws. If the cops are following the constitution, they simply won't take the bait.

[riddler408]

Dumb *** kid should of just went home the first time he was asked to and he never would of been tazed. I know a lot of people here are defending his rights bla bla bla. But in the end this will lead to more restrictions because it's just plain stupid. He has no reason to be out at night with a chambered Ar.

Thanks for wasting the Leo's time and taxpayer money dumb ***

Wow. Just wow.

[MA5177]

You have spent far, far, too much time in California. Wake up and smell the freedom.


What many call baiting cops is only baiting cops if the cops are enforcing bad laws. If the cops are following the constitution, they simply won't take the bait.

Dont get me wrong dude, I am as pro gun as they come. But when I see this I say to myself WHY?? Why start **** with the cops for no reason?
I wil tell you why..he was looking for a pay day on OUR dime and he will probably get it.

Nothing good will come from these guys LOOKING to set off a cop.

If he had a reason to open carry then no biggie, but I bet you anything he had someone call in thet there was a man pointing a gun around and he was ready for it.

[MA5177]

That's what they used to say to black kids in a white neighborhood. It was wrong then too.

It's not that the people don't know what they are getting into. It's that what they are getting into is wrong and needs to change.

Uuumm ....ya its exactly the same thing. So you are comparing the police concerned for public safety the same as racism?

[morfeeis]

Dont get me wrong dude, I am as pro gun as they come. Good God no wonder we are doomed But when I see this I say to myself WHY?? Why start **** with the cops for no reason? Yeah! who did he think he was exercising his right to keep and bear arms?
I wil tell you why..he was looking for a pay day on OUR dime and he will probably get it.Yes he knew the cops would stop him from exercising his rights and the taxpayers will pay till they learn.

Nothing good will come from these guys LOOKING to set off a cop.

If he had a reason to open carry then no biggie,sounds a lot like CA's CCW policy but I bet you anything he had someone call in thet there was a man pointing a gun around and he was ready for it.

See bold text.

You are as anti as they come, what's sad is in CA you're progun.

[IVC]

Uuumm ....ya its exactly the same thing. So you are comparing the police concerned for public safety the same as racism?

At the time they didn't consider themselves racist. They did it for the "public safety" too. Don't you know that black people used to rape white women, so walking in a white neighborhood was just a matter of safety (sarcasm, obviously)?

The interesting part is that at that time it was also "concerned citizens" who would call the police because they didn't *feel* safe, therefore they considered their racism to be just a "public safety" concern.

Throughout the history very few intolerant people actually considered themselves to be intolerant. Most of it was done in the name of religion, science (eugenics,) or public safety. All those people considered themselves very reasonable.

[MA5177]

See bold text.

You are as anti as they come, what's sad is in CA you're progun.

LOL

[Mulay El Raisuli]

That's what they used to say to black kids in a white neighborhood. It was wrong then too.

It's not that the people don't know what they are getting into. It's that what they are getting into is wrong and needs to change.

Absolutely.


The Raisuli

[Germz]

Agreed, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

since when is exercising your right to carry where lawful "playing a stupid game".

[Germz]

I WANT TO HEAR THE 9-1-1 Call.

"We got calls that you were pointing your rifle at people"
If that was the call, I would expect the response to be different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCONc6Va8I

The cop says something to the fact of "we need you to put your gun on the ground so we can figure out if you were in fact pointing it at people"

....

and how exactly do they plan on deducing by temporarily disarming me? does their crystal ball only work when a rifle is on the ground?

[hks95134]

San Antonio, Texas, police interview a 19 year old openly carrying his bolt action rifle, release him, change their minds, taser him, and then take him into custody.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...nt-see-coming/

Well, the OC-er's first mistake was not obeying instructions from the police.

If they tell you to do something and you don't, that's resisting arrest.

And any time one of the neighbors reports and complains about something, that is going to be problematic as well.

This story is another case of why it is a bad idea to open carry in places where there are lots of other people and ready police response. Out in wilderness, totally different story. But a really bad idea in town.

[hks95134]

Yeah, I saw this. Kid's gonna be the next Millionaire but alas, I predict the cop who tazed him will get a good "talking to" and be put back on the streets.

What makes you think that? Do you have any idea how much it costs to start a lawsuit? And the uncertainty involved? What do you think a carefully picked jury would say? Hard to tell. This incident is probably going nowhere, other than a very bad day for the OC-er which he will hopefully never forget.

[hks95134]

This is so out of control. I talked to a San Diego Police officer the other day and his department had not put out anything about carrying period.

Well, in California that would be illegal, right? That it is illegal in California is the whole basis of the petit court ruling in Peruta right?

Californian's have no gun rights at the present moment, as the Peruta case observed, and therefore court ordered shall-issue concealed carry has been prescribed.

We're just waiting for the en banc full court to either validate or reverse the petit court decision, right?

So if this happened in California the OC-er would be hauled off to jail if not shot on the spot. Kids carrying plastic guns have already been shot and killed recently here.

[hks95134]

Police get calls that someone is pointing a rifle at people. Police find person and simply ask him to lay down his rifle so they can talk to him. But no, the kid had to argue and be a jerk. The police have no idea what he is doing or who he is or what he may be intending to do. They have to go off the calls that were placed.

It is easy to judge after the fact. But maybe if the kid did the simple request of just laying down his firearm so they could talk to him things would have turned out differently. But no, he had to act like he did.

Go ahead and flame away, I don't care. If he would have just done as asked, things would have turned out differently.

Exactly !!!