Open Carry Firearms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZF8XD9Pk4

 

I said in my earlier post something like "unless that person has a gun or some other type of potentially lethal projectile".

 

Hotwater

 

lol yall cant handle this



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkTg6lhvQY

 

I was watching that...thinking it would be awesome...knowing some of my redneck friends. It was pretty dumb. My redneck friends will be along shortly to collect man-cards.

 

lol ur such a hater dude. liven up a bit in this thread sheesh

 

This is what happens when you don't teach your kids to use guns

 

Nah. I love my redneck friends. They could probably show these guys a few things. They're awesome!

 

Might open carry at subway tommorwo.

Thoughts on this sleepy cat?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUrN_86q0dA

 

120 odd posts too late mate

 

What follows is one of the more bizarre collection of non sequiturs I've seen in a very long time. I was going to just ignore it, but it's like an itch that you just have to scratch.

Please explain how the second sentence logically follows from the first. While we're waiting, let's look at them individually.

First, "a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun." That act is documented dozens of times in newspapers across the country EVERY SINGLE MONTH. The police cannot be everywhere and it takes time (usually minutes at least) for them to respond to a shooting event and frequently they arrive just in time to document the crime scene. OTOH, had a single licensed CHL holder who is already present can spell the difference between life and death, not only for themselves but for the unarmed people around them. Imagine how different the Aurora theater shooting or the Virginia Tech massacre might have turned out if an armed citizen had been present when the killers began shooting.

Second, I think you mean that it's easy for the criminal to have a gun IN SPITE of the current gun laws. None of the current laws prevent criminals from acquiring guns because, SURPRISE! criminals don't obey laws. Passing more stringent gun laws only serves to further disarm the people that obey laws in the first place.

Actually study after study (NIJ, FBI, New England Journal of Medicine, to name a few) show that police are more likely to injury innocent bystanders with "friendly fire" than are licensed non-LEO firearm carriers.

You appear to be generalizing from a single example. As a licensed firearms instructor, I know from numerous studies and from personal observation that private citizens who get professional instruction and practice regularly are frequently MORE accurate than police officers. Many offices only fire their sidearm once a year (for annual qualifications) and that shooting is done under very calm, controlled conditions. Even with that, I have personally witnessed two LEO self-inflicted gunshot wounds, caused by carelessness and too much excitement. Now, if I were in a live-or-death shooting situation, I would much rather have at my side a white-collar professional (dentist, programmer, accountant, etc.) who goes to the range a couple times a month than a twelve-year veteran police officer who's never once drawn his gun in the line of duty.

WTF? I'm not even going to try to address this one as those two sentences have about as much in common with each other as baseball and radishes.

I'm sure you're familiar with the phrase "law-abiding citizen". It exists, as do the laws, because laws are NOT (as you apparently believe) created just for criminals. Rather, they are created to instruct the population how NOT to become criminals. We pass personal harm and property laws to protect people and their possessions. We set speed limits to make our roads more safe. The list is long and colorful, but you get the idea.

Okay, even as a gun owner and second amendment supporter, I agree that open carry is rude and stupid. It is NOT, however, illegal in many places. If the people that live in those places don't like it, then the majority of the population needs to pass laws restricting that activity. IMHO, if gun owners (like me) want to carry a firearm in public, they go through their local process to get a CHL (like me) and then carry concealed (like me.) It provides the same level of protection AND it doesn't freak out the mundanes.