Open Carry Incident - Police Scanner

[03Lightningrocks]

Seems we have a hard core group of open carry advocates who are simply bent on getting our gun rights curtailed. We like to talk about how impossible it is to talk sense into liberals, but these people seem just as unable to think past their own imagined reality. The reality is if this keeps happening they ARE going to stimulate people to apply pressure to legislators. Just not the way these idiots are hoping. Greg Abbot has stated he supports OC. If these demonstrators will knock it off, I doubt that position will garner all that much attention during the election, but if they keep it up, the media will lap it up and help hand votes to Wendy Davis.

Completely agree, thanks for your post.

With rights comes responsibility, and responsibility involves reasonable thought and common sense...... traits often not found in people or groups who want everything their way.

I carried an M-16 daily in Vietnam for 2 years. Even though I am well equipped with with it's civilian counterpart, I see no valid reason to carry either an AR-15 or M-4 in public.

As a former LEO, I know first hand that 'man with a gun' calls tie up a lot of manpower and resources. In this day and age where school and work place shootings are evoking so much anti-gun sentiment, I see no valid, common sense reasoning behind giving the opposition more ammunition to use against us because of actions commonly associated with publicity stunts.

I almost wonder if these OC radicals are trying to get concealed carry outlawed. They sure act like it. maybe they are angry with concealed carry people. More angry than they are at the Brady bunch. From comments they continually make I get the impression they have some sort of childish vendetta for us. in any case, there is no doubt they have anger issues and quite possibly are lacking in social skills. Like a child who doesn't know how to express themselves stomping their feet and throwing tantrums.

[tommyg]

I think the people carrying rifles openly downtown does more to our cause than good.
The anti bunch will use it to make gun owners look like a pack of wild hillbillies

[AlaskanInTexas]

I think the people carrying rifles openly downtown does more to our cause than good.
The anti bunch will use it to make gun owners look like a pack of wild hillbillies

What's wrong with a pack of wild hillbillies?

[03Lightningrocks]

I think the people carrying rifles openly downtown does more to our cause than good.
The anti bunch will use it to make gun owners look like a pack of wild hillbillies

What's wrong with a pack of wild hillbillies?

It depends on the hillbillies and specifically, where they are from.