Flash Mobs Spread Panic…Among the News Media – Regarding CHL Permit Holders.

The Truth About Guns ^ | 9 July, 2011 | Brad Kozak

[marktwain]

You gotta wonder if the news media actually listens to themselves. I mean, here’s a group of yoots that form a “flash mob,” storm a department store, and make off with a bunch of merchandise. The reporter chooses to focus on the idea that responsible, honest citizens are concerned, and are exercising their Constitutional rights, and are choosing to carry concealed. And their biggest fear is that some armed individual might shoot a kid. Um…really?

In the real world, a majority of US citizens realize that while owning/carrying a gun doesn’t automatically make you a movie hero, it also does not automatically make you a bad guy or gun nut. We realize that, in a world where the idea behind a “flash mob” has evolved from “harmless prank” to “robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.” We realize that it would be all too easy for it escalate further into violent crime. And we realize that the responsible thing to do is to carry a concealed weapon, just in case.

It might surprise you to know that I don’t think carrying a gun means I need to jump in and try to save the day, should I witness a flash mob committing a crime. Nope. I’m not your Huckleberry on that one. However, if a flash mob (or anybody else, for that matter) suddenly decides that my daughter or I am a convenient target for a little of the old ultra-violence from the ringleader and his droogs, I’d rather be armed. Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

What it really comes down to is the issue of personal responsibility. What galls me beyond belief is this lock-step Liberalism from the media, where they automatically assume that someone carrying concealed is looking to have a confrontation, and if any situation comes up in their presence, they’ll come out, guns blazing, and end up shooting some poor defenseless kid, who’s only crime was being part of a violent, criminal gang. Oh, wait…but that makes the gun owner seem as if they are exercising common sense, doesn’t it? The media? Not so much. Listen to these two reporters, with banter that sounds as if they are trying to out-do each other on moral outrage and groupthink points.

Am I worried about a flash mob? Nope. Not yet, anyway. (If the whole “let’s get violent and break some laws” meme goes viral among the flash mobbery, I’ll likely change that assessment. But I worry a lot less about any kind of bad things happening, when I have the ability to defend myself and keep my daughter safe. It’s not a panacea, but it sure does keep me from being one of the herd of sheeple. The truth is, if you carry a gun, you may never need it. And you probably expect that you’ll never have to draw down on another human being. But you also realize that bad things happen, and carrying a gun is a way to try to make sure they don’t happen to you.

[marktwain]

Three minute vidio at the link.

[Maverick68]

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[Lazamataz]

I mean, here’s a group of yoots that form a “flash mob,” storm a department store, and make off with a bunch of merchandise. The reporter chooses to focus on the idea that responsible, honest citizens are concerned, and are exercising their Constitutional rights, and are choosing to carry concealed. And their biggest fear is that some armed individual might shoot a kid. Um…really?

The liberal media is an enemy every bit as dangerous and rabidly vicious as the Japanese in World War II.

[Mrs.Z]

I agree with the author.

A flash mob running in and taking expensive jeans is way different from thugs beating up a family on a beach.

The violence would justify pulling out my weapon, but I don’t feel compelled to protect Macy’s merchandise.

[wastoute]

Actually, these are the “marching orders”. The purpose of “flash mob” is to precipitate just the event described so the libtards can publicize the need to enact more gun laws.

[no-to-illegals]

Carrying is similar to an insurance policy. Buy the policy.

[P.O.E.]

We realize that it would be all too easy for it escalate further into violent crime.

Or protest marches

[mazda77]

How simple this is to stop. Most larger stores who are targeted by this tact have their own internal security. So add electromagnetic locks to the doors followed by the grate style rollup security barriers. When security sees this coming, set the chain in motion of locking the doors remotely and rolling down the gates. At the same time an automatic call goes out to 911 and the cops arrive to sort out the mess from the honest customers.

The wild card is if one of them is carrying and then a hostage situation ensues. Either way, having a carry permit places someone in a unique position to determine if they have the will or the proper opportunity to carry out the reason for getting the permit in the first place.

[Oldpuppymax]

The problem is, stores would RATHER have blacks steal thousands of dollars worth of merchandise than actually confront and perhaps kill one of these thugs with the result of being accused of RAAAAACISM by an omnipresent Jesse Jackson or Uncle Al. That’s the level of cowardice which the left has instilled in, well, the already COWARDLY!

[bert]

The trickle down democrat modis operandi is to be come part of a nonprofiled flash mob that encourages you to enter a store and take what you want. After all being a democrat and being in a flash mob is not all that different. The point of being a democrat mob is to enter the country and take what you want.

When you profile the flash mob and the White House you see clearly they are the same...... irresponsible lazy black people who simply enter in a mob and take what they want. Eric Holder is the guy in the red shirt holding open the door. Barack Obama made the cell call

Racist? You Betcha!. The point of the mob is racial action

[Common Sense 101]

“Flash mobs”? Why don’t we start calling it what it is... “economic justice”, courtesy of the jug-eared moron, dictator wannabe.

[ctdonath2]

They’d get sued for wrongful imprisonment.
Lock me in a store because of some hooligans, and getting out by any means becomes my #1 priority.

[Malone LaVeigh]

What degree of difference exists between the flash mobs of today and the LA rioters of yesteryear? This phenomenon seems to be spreading and increasing in frequency. As it does, is it unlikely that at some point these emboldened mobbers will cross the threshold into violence?
While I agree that nothing has occurred so far that would warrant an armed response, that may not always be the case.

[MikeSteelBe]

The liberal media is also just as effective as the Nazi propaganda ministry of the Third Reich.

They have allowed certain evil minorities to be protected ( Nazis - gays), and a whole class of people to be demonized (Jews - Christains/Conservatives/Gun Owners).

[Neoliberalnot]

The old media, that is the media complaining about the competition and running the smear campaigns against the new media, is the enemy of free people everywhere. Mark them as the enemy and never forget.

[Leaning Right]

They’d get sued for wrongful imprisonment.

You're right. Any member of the flash mob can say "I just went into the store to buy something, and this crowd gathered around me. Then the gates went down and I was wrongfully imprisoned. I still have nightmares about being trapped in that store."

Personal-injury lawyers would love it.

[chadwimc]

“...How simple this is to stop. Most larger stores who are targeted by this tact have their own internal security. So add electromagnetic locks to the doors followed by the grate style rollup security barriers. When security sees this coming, set the chain in motion of locking the doors remotely and rolling down the gates. At the same time an automatic call goes out to 911 and the cops arrive to sort out the mess from the honest customers...”

What color is the sky in your world?

[super7man]

They’d get sued for wrongful imprisonment.

I agree with you. This is not an easy problem.

Nor, can you deny access to the store in fear of getting sued for racism.

[Condor51]

The MSM runs and hides in a closet regarding these 'Flash Mobs' because these 'yutes' are all of a certain 'protected minority group'. So they will make excuse after excuse for them. Or worse, not report the real news of what occurs when these 'yutes' descend on a territory like Genghis Khan and his 'merry' band of Mongols.

When the first Flash Mobs hit Chicago's 'rich' near North Side, the Oak Street to North Avenue beaches, and Lincoln Park area on Memorial Day, they were beating people up and robbing them of wallets, cell phones, and anything of value they could find. And after this SCUM got bored beating up the Yuppies, they descended on the VERY RICH stores along Michigan Avenue (The Mag Mile). And what was reported by the MSM? ... almost SQUAT! ... "Some Minor Shoplifting Occurred".

Seeing this, these ghetto rats knew they had new Mayor Rahm and his new moron PD Supt by the gonads and got a wee bit bolder: They started attacking OLD PEOPLE. One man was about 62-64 iirc but in a wheel chair. Then they beat and robbed a lady who was in her late 70's or early 80's while she was walking her little dog! And after that they followed up a week later by attacking, beating and robbing, a young Medical Student who was alone and at night.

Naturally none of these victims can defend themselves with a firearm because regardless of any SCOTUS ruling, carrying a gun legally in Chicago is still near impossible. So I say - The Hell With The Law! If I lived or had to go to that area of Chicago that these maggots are targeting I'd be carrying my gun. Or guns, two of them -- my Makarov back-up. Reason for two, simple. These Flash Mobs are not a group of Five or Ten. They're 20-30 in number. Pretty brave of them to attack singular old, and infirmed people that way isn't it!

As such if I was in that situation where I saw a group of 20+ of the 'protected class' running my way, I'm pulling two guns on them. Granted, Sixteen Rounds won't get them all but after a 'few' hit the ground, I'm pretty sure the rest of these brave Ghetto Rats would scurry off to the nearest gutter for cover.

Or, they could always call the cops on me.
'Help! Weez wuz gonna beatz an robz him butz he'z gotz gunz'
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[SIDENET]

I'm pulling two guns on them. Granted, Sixteen Rounds

1911 x 2?