Phoenix Anchor Says Arizonans should be able to "Blow Away" People with a Rifle on their Shoulder

Gun Watch ^ | 3 August, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[Dead Corpse]

A slung long gun is about as immediately dangerous as a doughnut.

Hoplophobes are stupid.

[HammerT]

Could we apply that ‘logic’ to “Blowing away” people with other lethal objects?

Cars, trucks, tractors, baseball bats, knives, gasoline, flour……

[trisham]

"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."

~Epictetus

God bless this site, this Free Republic.
Please click the pic

[MrB]

They aren’t scared of the gun, they’re scared of the person’s ability to resist oppression.

[Starstruck]

Do his panties get all wadded up when he sees an armed cop?

I actually believe that these bent out of shape people about guns, don't give it a second thought when someone with a white or blue uniform is open carrying. And that would include a janitor.

[marktwain]

“I actually believe that these bent out of shape people about guns, don’t give it a second thought when someone with a white or blue uniform is open carrying. And that would include a janitor.”

I think you are correct. Wear something that looks like a uniform, and you get a pass.

They assume you are an agent of the state, so in their mind, you must be benevolent.

[muir_redwoods]

"Chuck Connors, conservative and former Seton Hall man. The Rifleman, still in sydication, transends time with a moralistic and independent life style message."

And he was a former member of the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Dodgers and drafted by (but never played for) the Chicago Bears. Tough guy.

[publius911]

Phoenix Anchor Says Arizonans should be able to "Blow Away" People with a Rifle on their Shoulder

With what?
A hair dryer?

< /sarc >

[marktwain]

A pistol.

I believe he thought he was being clever, besmirching both pistol and rifle carriers with this hypothetical.

[Dead Corpse]

Some of them. Agreed.

For others, I’d rather attribute it to stupidity as that much human Evil frankly scares the spit out of me.

[TurboZamboni]

Looks like Keith Olberman’s slightly less retarded brother

[Pontiac]

"Someones carrying a gun, and they're with their children, and they see a man walk into a Starbucks with a rifle on his shoulder. What would stop them from blowing your client away?

I can’t believe that the blind illogic of this statement has eluded everyone.

For this someone with kids to blow away the person with a rifle on his shoulder that person would have to be carrying a firearm.

So why would a person carrying a firearm immediately see this person as a threat? For a person to carry a firearm it almost a foregone conclusion that they do not view persons carrying a firearm as being an inherent threat.

[Mad Dawgg]

Everyone is a potential threat...

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." ---USMC Maj. Gen. James Mattis

[Pontiac]

Always good advice.

But why the guy with the shouldered rifle more than anyone else.

;)

[Mad Dawgg]

Never said him more than anyone else...