Open carry was the norm 120 years ago. These actors look natural carrying small arms. Maybe it's the hat...
An armed society is a polite society.
Posted on 05/09/2014 3:07:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
is known as brandishing, and is still illegal. So, the author is a liar.
Correct on both counts.
I’m more scared of those paranoid parents that the law-abiding guy with a gun.
I seriously doubt that there are any “guys” that work at Salon.
How many people think that what Rosa Parks did was spontaneous..?
How many people think Rosa Parks was an average, apolitical southerner..?
She was CHOSEN as a star by a core political leadership after many careful political meetings and she had a long history of political activism —she was intensely political and far from average.
Change happens because of POLITICAL DECISIONS, and open-carry is no different.
Was it just me, or did she perfectly make the point that an armed society is a polite society?
When many people openly carry, others are much less likely to play the bully with or without a weapon....
Every time somebody who doesn’t know carp about guns tells me all about guns, I have heard all I need to know.
To know this person is an ID10t.
“is known as brandishing, and is still illegal. So, the author is a liar.”
well, when you saw the author has three names, there is always a better than average chance they are a Marxist, and then of course liar goes without saying.
“Imagine you’re sitting in a restaurant and a loud group of armed men come through the door. They are ostentatiously displaying their weapons, making sure that everyone notices them. Would you feel safe or would you feel in danger?”
Imagine they’re police officers. Safe, right? So how does a uniform and a pretty badge make all the difference?
“Would you feel comfortable confronting them?”
I wouldn’t dare violate their Constitutional rights like that. It would be like confronting an Orthodox Jew about his silly beanie.
“If you owned the restaurant could you ask them to leave?”
Not for all the world.
“a man waving a gun around in public”
Use hyperbole much, b!tch? /to the author, not the Freeper
Salon competes for the dumbest liberals in the country.
Nobody was drafted from “Salon” magazine.
Open carry was the norm 120 years ago. These actors look natural carrying small arms. Maybe it's the hat...
An armed society is a polite society.
Will it be the classic Wild Wild West with Robert Conrad or the really bad Wild Wild West with Will Smith?
"I wanna go to Florida"
“Imagine you’re sitting in a restaurant and a loud group of armed men come through the door. They are ostentatiously displaying their weapons, making sure that everyone notices them.”
You then realize its the SWAT team on dinner break. :-)
I’m much more concerned with the political power of the Party of plutocrats and oligarchs that have their roots in Marxist theory, where symbolism of the hammer and sickle are the weapons authorized by the Party line elites for the sheep. They’ve infiltrated our government.
These are the aristocrats and people that have always seen an armed public as a dire threat to their financial superiority and influence and power, be it in 1920 Soviet Union, 2014 USA, or 1591 and the middle ages. They want only the elites armed and the non-elites unarmed and politically neutralized. The 2nd Amendment was intended to restrict their right to disarm the public and keep the ultimate power in the hands of the people.
Perhaps this is the result
This is why I ping on Richmond to pass a concealed carry without a permit, every chance I get. Luckily Virginia is good on both, but not together.
Sorry, it will be the fairly accurate portrayal of the wil wil west from “little house on the prairie”.
Hailstorms were big news.
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