Posted on 08/30/2012 7:01:17 AM PDT by marktwain
Again, the checking part isn’t the problem, it’s the arresting them part and the disorderly conduct charge for exercising their 2A rights part that are the problems.
Perhaps so, but only one man was carrying a rifle.
Bingo!
True, but an arrest based on no violation of law, but on the fears of a hoplophobe should be costly to the individual police officers.
The boobs came out of the woodwork on this one.
If things go wrong in November, it may well become one!
Like I said watch for false flags.
Me too; I couldn’t envision what was happening and thought the bearded guys must be reenactors getting ready for the “Maryland My Maryland” event in a few weeks.
The worse I experienced was a "good luck" and a wave of a hand.
If nothing else, this should get more donations for breast cancer and the calendar will see like hotcakes.
That being said, the police were probably not thinking in terms of deliberately depriving them of their rights but were probably thinking of the "optics" if something went wrong.
Hopefully this turns out to be a teachable moment for the police here.
What would a good cop have done?
Asked them where they were going.
Probably found out that it was very near, since they were on foot and not in vehicles.
Decided that their mission was a good idea and offered to have a car follow behind them so as to prevent more stupid 911 panic calls and as their own contribution to the good cause.
And it would have tied up only one cop and one car rather than the large number of cops it takes to haul in and process 13 people.
The cops used terrible judgement.
” over, say, 50 or 60,”
61...and feeling every day of it. :-)
There’s a lot of bearded men in Vermont. Usually there are two explanations:
1) They’re hippies.
2) They are sensibly shielding their faces against the winter cold.
It used to be legal to open carry in California. Then after a few people decided to push it, it was made illegal. Open carry makes the sheep nervous.
LOL!!!!!!! Has she had work done on her face??? Can you put side by side pics.....something is totally different.
I suspect this story involves booze more than boobs. That’s probably where the disorderly charges originated.
He might have had one. Class III is legal in Oregon and most sheriffs readily sign off on the forms.
ed
Ditto that ... and I was wondering how the heck it got to Portland.
I doubt if they were drunk.
Portland police are notoriously anti-gun. The rest of the state’s pretty conservative, once you get outside the big cities and university towns.
Ed
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