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Man brings AR-15 into Walmart; People freak out
740 AM - KTRH Radio ^ | Local News

Posted on 08/20/2013 9:49:58 AM PDT by Ron H.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; rtkba; secondamendment; walmart
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To: Dead Corpse

If I saw you armed like that and you unlimbered that piece,
there’s a good chance you might earn your screen name.


41 posted on 08/20/2013 10:25:48 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice; Dead Corpse; Las Vegas Ron; All
RELATED ARTICLE..........

 

Pastor carries rifle in Hunstville to raise awareness of open carry laws

by Kevin Reece / KHOU 11 News

khou.com

Posted on August 16, 2013 at 7:20 PM

Updated Saturday, Aug 17 at 3:07 PM

 

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Terry Holcomb Sr. is a pastor in San Jacinto County, but he is also a staunch advocate of the 2nd Amendment who is now taking his rifle on walks through Huntsville to get people talking about gun laws in Texas.

In videos he posted on YouTube, Holcomb is shown walking into Double Dave’s Pizza, Starbucks, Jack in the Box and Walmart in Huntsville. He carries his AR-15 Bushmaster .223 slung over his shoulder, behind his back with the barrel pointed down. He said the magazine was loaded, the chamber was empty and the safety was on.

Holcomb said customers and business owners didn’t complain until he got to Walmart. Within minutes a manager asked him to leave. Holcomb didn’t argue and walked out of the store as requested.

“Well, the Walmart in Huntsville definitely doesn’t honor 2nd Amendment rights,” he said in the video as he walked into the store parking lot.

“And that is their absolute right,” Holcomb told us in an interview a week after he posted the videos. “I respect their right just as much as I want them to respect mine.”

Holcomb said the reason he took the walk through Huntsville and through several private businesses was to educate people about Texas open carry laws and how he, and thousands of other gun rights activists, would like to see Texas law changed.

Texas is not an “open carry” state. You cannot legally in Texas, like you can in the state of Virginia for example, carry a handgun openly on your hip. Texas law states the handgun must be concealed under your clothing.

Texas also requires a concealed handgun license that comes only after several hours of required classroom instruction. However, it is legal to carry a long rifle in the open in Texas, with certain limitations like those legally enforced by private businesses.

Holcomb calls that difference between handguns and rifles in Texas law is what he would like changed.

“Whether it be opened or concealed we just want to be able to choose how we carry,” said Holcomb. “We believe that’s our constitutional right.”

Although a previous trip to Starbucks in Huntsville went without incident or the management confronting him about the weapon, a second trip to the same Starbucks Friday brought a visit by Huntsville police. Someone called 911 after seeing him in the parking lot with the AR-15 and became concerned.

“Kind of scary honestly. It’s a massive gun,” one Starbucks customer told KHOU 11 News, who did not want to give her name.

Two Huntsville police officers talked with Holcomb outside the Starbucks, agreed that he was not breaking any laws, but did question why he thought the display was necessary.

Starbucks policy is to abide by the gun laws in the state in which it operates. Management there did not ask Holcomb to leave.

“You’ll find no person who’s a bigger fan of all the constitutional amendments than me because I am,” said Gerald Treece, a professor at the South Texas College of Law. “But all constitutional rights are subject to some limitations. The ability to take a firearm any place you want by simply citing the 2nd Amendment simply is illogical because all constitutional rights are subject to limitations.”

Holcomb said he’s well aware of those limitations, and while he promises to continue his educational open carry “walks” as he calls them, will abide by the wishes of any private business and leave when asked. But on each walk he hopes to drum up more debate about the open carry movement in Texas.

“We don’t want to carry our long guns,” he said. We would prefer open carry our handguns. But since this is the option they give us this is what we do and we’ll continue to do it until they remove that restriction.”

 

 

42 posted on 08/20/2013 10:28:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: tumblindice
There’s no reason for anyone to take his carbine into a store full of civilians.

Who are these civilians?

43 posted on 08/20/2013 10:30:22 AM PDT by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: All

The New Black Panthers, or maybe it was Quanell X’s group, protested at an execution a few years back. They marched in formation all carrying AR243’s on their shoulders. It was legal since they were all unloaded.


44 posted on 08/20/2013 10:32:11 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: XenaLee

My guess is that he’s a ‘Rat, pimping for gun control!


45 posted on 08/20/2013 10:32:17 AM PDT by Tucker39
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To: tumblindice

So you would go around killing people that choose to exercise their Constitutional right to Bear Arms?

How Conservative of you.


46 posted on 08/20/2013 10:36:29 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Dead Corpse

You’re the one hyperventilating, not me.

I have no fear, I just recognize things for what they are, not how I wish them to be.

What this guy did is stupid. Yes, he has a right, but he is exercising it to provoke panic. That, is stupid.


47 posted on 08/20/2013 10:36:29 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: BipolarBob

1. Adirondack Mountains
2. Green Mountains of Vermont


48 posted on 08/20/2013 10:36:32 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: Yosemitest

Can you write a sentence that makes sense?


49 posted on 08/20/2013 10:36:32 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: Responsibility2nd

Some nut walks into a store, whips out a pistol he had “concealed” and starts shooting. If there was an open carry law maybe everyone would have seen the gun. That’s my argument to dumb liberals. The dumber the argument, the more likely they’ll understand it.


50 posted on 08/20/2013 10:36:58 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (When you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil.)
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To: Tucker39

My guess is that he’s a ‘Rat, pimping for gun control!

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Or he’s a die-hard 2nd Amendment loving, gun-freak, hard core conservative, right winger.

Either way - his silly antics are doing harm for our cause.

Is he excercising his rights? Or abusing them in a “look at me/Attention Whore” style that is not helpful?


51 posted on 08/20/2013 10:38:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: tumblindice

And like I said, if you are wound that tightly, either relax or stop carrying before you do something stupid.


52 posted on 08/20/2013 10:38:27 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
But all constitutional rights are subject to some limitations.

The only "limitation" on RKBA is what you actually DO with said arms. The keeping and bearing of them, regardless of where you happen to be, is protected and unlimited.

53 posted on 08/20/2013 10:39:49 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Spitting in the coffee cup is a nice touch too!


54 posted on 08/20/2013 10:41:56 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Las Vegas Ron
You’re the one hyperventilating.

Not at all. You idiots calling guys like this an idiot aren't helping us at all.

Again, a Right not used may as well be taken away.

And THAT would be stupid.

55 posted on 08/20/2013 10:42:12 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Ron H.

You can bet there were no pickpockets, muggings etc. while the dude was roaming Wal-Mart.


56 posted on 08/20/2013 10:42:29 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: Dead Corpse

The only “limitation” on RKBA is what you actually DO with said arms.

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Right. I can agree with that. Even this goofy pastor knows “what you actually DO with said arms” is limited.

So yes. There should be limitations on walking around WalMart with an AR 15.


57 posted on 08/20/2013 10:43:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: tumblindice

There are no such things are “reasonable” infringements on something that “shall not be infringed”.


58 posted on 08/20/2013 10:43:28 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
There should be limitations on walking around WalMart with an AR 15.

Logic fail. Carrying an AR is an example of BEARing Arms.

Keep trying though.

59 posted on 08/20/2013 10:46:10 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse
Fixing it....

 

Again, a Right not used  ABUSED may as well be taken away.

And THAT would be stupid.

60 posted on 08/20/2013 10:46:25 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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