Posted on 06/28/2009 5:43:42 PM PDT by marktwain
KALAMAZOO -- It resembled most any Sunday afternoon picnic in Bronson Park. Except most of the people assembled around tables filled with watermelon and grilled goodies had firearms in holsters strapped to their waists.
The Glocks and the Smith & Wessons remained holstered but visible during a three-hour Open Carry Picnic designed to raise public awareness of what organizers called Second Amendment rights in Michigan to openly carry a firearm in most places.
They were high school teachers, college students, computer geeks and housewives with one thing in common. Rather than a cell phone, the leather pouch they wore at their waist contained a gun. The picnic drew about 40 people on a wet afternoon.
Josh Tishhouse, 22, a native of Otsego now living in Ann Arbor, was wearing his 9 mm Glock 17 as he held a soda in one hand, passing out Michigan Open Carry information brochures with the other.
The University of Michigan systems administrator said he has openly carried his handgun for the past year. But not at work, saying he respects the university's work rules that ban firearms on campus.
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Posted by keithmlui on 06/08/09 at 10:05AM The 2nd Amendment refers to a "militia," i.e. military.
There is no need for private citizens to own firearms of anykind. It simply should not be allowed.
Approved hunters can rent rifles from appropriate DNR offices.
---------While silly and outrageous, at least civil. Then-------
Posted by hbuck on 06/08/09 at 11:13AM keithmlui, a 'militia' by definition is NOT military. Militia: civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army. The militia is those that are not in the regular army, but who would be ready and willing to defend this country alongside with the military. And here is how it is defined in U.S. Code Title 10: The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. -- This means we – the citizens – are the militia.
I find it very interesting that people who are afraid of guns like to read the 2nd Amendment as not an individual right, but they read the 1st Amendment as pertaining to individual rights.
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Inappropriate? Alert us. Post a commentPosted by keithmlui on 06/08/09 at 2:26PM hellooonu1 -
So who are you defending yourself from? The boogie-man? People that look different from you? Your own cowardice?
Do you realize that you are considerably more likely to get killed or injured with your own firearm than detering a crime with it?
The fact is you do not need - and should not have - a personal firearm. America will be a safer country if we abolish personal ownership of firearms and only allow them to be rented from the government for hunting purposes. And a strong, credible environmental/land use argument can be made against allowing them for hunting, or even allowing hunting at all.
Open your minds, people, and save the planet!
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Posted by keithmlui on 06/08/09 at 3:08PM I agree with liam9903.
We need an activist, aggressive government to deal with a collection of difficult, controversial issues right now, not the least of which is man-made global warming and urban sprawl.
America can't have greedy, invidualist, "I got mine," cowboys underminding the government and the needs of the majority of citizens.
What happened in this park is a slap in the face to governmental authority (elections have consequences people) and a chilling precedent. It should never be allowed to happen again!
----And there we have it, an finally explicit, naked explanation of why the left wants gun control "it is a slap in the face to governmental authority"---- Finally---
Posted by CoonDog42 on 06/08/09 at 4:24PM @keithmlui,
Are you representing your own opinions or those of the Michigan Land Use Institute?
Keith Schneider at 231-882-4723 ext 11 or keith@mlui.org
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*wonders if he’s been smoking it”
If everyone with conservative values just moved south they would all just kill each other and we would be rid of the lot of rotten apples.
I’m not giving them my home with out a fight. The only way I’m leaving is toes up.
We have great gun laws and much nicer winters :)
forget it. their side would fall to utter chaos inside 5 years then they’d want to come over to our side to get away from it only to infect our side with their same hippie bullshit.
f’em.
Liberals (especially the men) are utter cowards.
We have great gun laws, icefishing and snowmobiling. Don’t let the libtards fool you, we’re a pretty conservative state with an urban infection.
Sadly we have our own share of urban infection.
Famous last words of a fool...
I wonder if I could hold the sight picture steady enough as I am LMAO...
Might have to go to the range to practice that one...
“Hey, Steve??? Why are you laughing???”
Then I show them the printout of this thread and the comments...
Can you imagine an entire line of shooters laughing and pulling triggers at the same time???
We’d probably have better luck talking sense into a swan. lol
You’d think open carry would be legal in Texas, but it isn’t. We can carry long guns openly but we have to conceal handguns. It’s legal to have a loaded handgun in your vehicle or any time you are headed to or from it, but it has to be out of sight.
bttt
Idiots ... all of them.
I’m laughing at this guy. He sounds so over-the-top enviro-facist-liberal-control-freak it borders on trollish.
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