Posted on 09/25/2016 8:48:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower
If you are a black man in America, exercising your constitutional right to keep and bear arms can be fatal. You might think the National Rifle Association and its amen chorus would be outraged, but apparently they believe Second Amendment rights are for whites only
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This old drunk hasn’t got a clue about what he is talking about. Not a clue. The DNC likes their “uncle Toms” that way.
Yeah, I read all that, too.
You kinda just “glossed over” the fact he was “holding a gun” irrespective of whether you know or not they even saw this guy’s tag number and checked it out. Seeing that would cause ANY sane person to consider the options and try to get more information (like that possibly available to them in unit comm links).
It seems to me that they did what they should have.
Okay, but it was confusing to me. Sorry.
I understand the rationale there, but keep in mind that someone with an exposed gun who is smoking a joint represents a potential imminent danger to others ... which leads me to believe that the police on the scene acted as quickly as possible to deal with it. The fact that they didn’t even wait for the backup car to arrive before confronting the mutant is very telling here.
To me, a loaded gun reference and a reference to “drop it” several times is enough, regardless of color.
“Only a fool or someone with a death wish even touches a weapon while stopped by police.”
Agree. I’ve had my TExas CHL since the law was passed, some twenty years or so I guess. And, I eep a handgun in my truck console at all times. I’ve been pulled over for speeding a few times since I first got my CHL. By the time the officer runs my plates and walks to the truck I will have my insurance card, DL and CHL laying on my dash. The window will have been rolled down and my hands will be at the 10:00 and 2:00 position. When the offer comes up to my truck and asks for my cards I hand them to him and politely inform him that there is a handgun in my console. I do NOT remove my hands from the steering wheel. Invariably, the officer thanks me for the gun advisement, we may make a little small talk like why I was spending where I’m going, etc. but, I always stay polite and friendly, no wise cracking. Bottom line- never had a problem.
Poor poor pitiful me
Why is everybody always pickin on me?
isn’t this the anti-gun guy who carries, or carried, a gun??
All firearms laws are Unconstitutional. The Constitution says RKBA SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. There are no qualifications or exceptions in that amendment. It is however, Constitutional to have laws against using a firearm. There is not really even any sense making it illegal for an ex con to have a gun. If he has criminal intent and wants a gun he will have one. How does the law affect that? It doesn’t. If he means to use one in commission of a crime he wants a stolen gun or other gun that can’t be traced to him, anyway. Making it illegal simply makes liberals feel like they are doing something comassionate.
There is nothing that can go wrong for a black man or a white woman that they cannot find a way to blame on the white man.
More left coast tripe from one of the unholy trinity: the Sac Bee, San Jose Merc or Frisco Chronic.
Imagine you are a police officer executing an arrest warrant at an apartment complex with many cars in the parking lot where you will probably have to arrest the person you are looking for. You see another person smoking dope in the parking lot. Then you see that this dope smoking person has a gun. Don’t you want to clear the area of any extraneous people smoking dope and carrying a gun just in case they might want to start shooting at you while you are distracted and engaged in the arrest?
Why can’t white people say “nigger”?
This is the paragraph I'm objecting to.
Gun Control activists have one objective; to limit ALL gun ownership knowing full well they can't get to the desired conclusion without many intermediate steps. Step one is to get a bill which limits ownership by any degree. This is the beginning of How to cook a live frog. If you throw him into a pot of boiling water, he will immediately jump out. If you put him in a pot of cool water and then put the pot on the heat, he will swim around as the water gets to the boiling point.
When liberals want to restrict a guaranteed freedom they know they first need to get their foot in the door. Jim Crow laws were passed to prevent a guaranteed freedom from a specific category of the population giving future freedom stealers (legisators) a precedent to continue the process.
Once again, the liberal media wants to solve a problem by blaming the wrong cause. By themselves, guns are harmless. They need someone to pull the trigger.
Exactly, you do the right way, and a police officer, I thank you for that.
But what would the response be if an officer walked up and you had the gun in your hand? As friendly, polite?
Exactly.
Yes. But it seems they only want to people of no color in jail.
For all its flaws, this is what gives New York City a little more credibility on this subject. They have mandatory sentences for even minor offenses involving firearms. They even put an NFL player on the New York Giants in jail for almost two years on a gun possession charge a while back.
It's no coincidence that New York's crime rates -- while rising in recent years -- are still much lower than what you find in other urban sh!t-holes.
They do, and you rarely know about it because the media doesn’t consider it news to cover. No angle to exploit.
Laws are laws that apply to all men equally. There is no difference of intent when a law is passed. My perception is that they are also applied equally for the most part. This article is wrong in that it is intended to stir dissent among the races.
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