Moms Demand Action Steals my Picture

Gun Watch ^ | 3 October, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

I had the picture above taken, and wrote the story about it a month ago.  It seems to have hit a nerve, because Moms Demand Action stole the picture and tried to use it for their propaganda.   It is one of the reasons that I copyright these articles and allow for use *if the attribution line is included*.   MDA did not include the attribution line, but their use of the picture is backfiring anyway.

Here is a link to the article at concealednation.org that it generated.    Brandon, the author, did a good job.

As we start reading through the posted comments, we quickly realize that some MDA followers seem quite violent. These aren’t things that we would ever promote, and find it insanely ironic that a follower of an organization such as MDA would promote such violent acts:

It is interesting to find that there are people who want to kill me, simply for exercising my first and second amendment constitutional rights. Linda Andrew Hunsicker wrote:

"If I see a guy carrying a big gun like this while I'm shoping, I have to assume he's a bad guy and shoot him.  It doesn't make sense to wait to see if he shoots someone else first.  He's got a gun in Kroger, I feel threatened, so it's my duty to shoot him first."

I wrote about a prominent TV anchor in Phoenix that expressed the same attitude:

Mark Curtis, anchor, 12News:

"Someones carrying a gun, and they're with their children, and they see a man walk into a Starbucks with a rifle on his shoulder.  What would stop them from blowing your client away?

Marc Victor, attorney

:

Well, the fact that the law prohibits that unless there is an imminent risk of deadly physical force, or....

Mark Curtis, Anchor 12News:

You don't think that a man carrying a rifle in a Starbucks, after what we have seen in Aurora, Colorado, would be enough reason for someone that is carrying a gun to think that they are in imminent danger?

It appears that Linda has expanded the "big gun" category that you can be sumarily executed for, to include such mundane handguns as a Glock 17.   Next people will be wanting to kill their fellow man because they drive an SUV, or maybe because their house is bigger than average.

It would not be the first time.


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[P.O.E.]

Clarification: I mean “law and order” in the sense of a moral society.

[mad_as_he$$]

I was returning home from hunting yesterday on I-80 near Central Nevada. We stopped at a truck stop to let the dog have a walk. While we were walking an old Mazda b2000 pick up parked next to my rig and started discharging deadlocked, tie-dyed, smelly hippies of about 25 years of age. It was like a clown car six or seven got out of the front and from the camper shell. They were all clearly high on meth and exhibiting the associated behavior. Then they all started jabbering at each other called each other names etc. The last one out of the passenger front left the door open meaning that I could not get to my drivers door on my truck. Ms. Mad immediately took second position to me on my off gun side with the dog leash in her off hand. I approached the treasure of America's youth and said “Excuse me, will you close your open door so I can enter my vehicle.” One of them turned and said “Just wait a f^&king minute.” He clearly has not seen me before. I was dressed in cammo with a open carry handgun. He went white. His jaw dropped and he said “Oh, OK.” Closed the door and made a clear path. As I walked to my door the only female uttered something how rude. I just smiled and said to her “Yes, it was to block me from my truck.” Btw two of the “people” had long knives on their belt which I found odd.

A guy was watching from another truck two rows away and I heard him laugh at the girl. Then I noticed he had his hand inside his pocket. I smiled and waved at him on the way out. He gave me a salute and said “Semper Fi.”

Icing on the cupcake? The truck had expired Kalifornia tags on it. So I called it in to the NHP.

Great calming effect moment of open carry. If I hadn't had mine out in the open I think things could of gone different with more belligerence by the hippies in the initial encounter. If they are not a guest of the State they are telling stories about rude Nevadans with guns to their friends. I am OK with that.

[D Rider]

Thank you for that. Case in point, guns are better than coffee to stimulate sober behavior... and Semper Fi.

[thescourged1]

Hey, at least the holster matches the shirt, he's not totally clueless. ;)

Honestly, I wish the day would come when some fashionistas somehow make sidearms the perfect accessory to any ensemble, talk about turning the tables on the low-info crowd. Picture it in your head; Red carpet gawkers gushing over some hottie celeb's gorgeous evening gown, sparklies by Tiffany, and stylish holster by Gucci....lol

[SpeakerToAnimals]

The point I am trying to make is that while I know there is a vocal open carry contigent here on FR, self-protection of self and others close to you is the real reason to carry, not to stir up those who are apparently as committed against open carry.

Here in Colorado us pro gun types worked to elect pro gun politicians. At our urging they passed open carry laws. With open carry laws we don't need no stinking government permits that put us in the criminal data base.

As open carry becomes more common it will be considered normal. Outside the big cities open carry is barely noticed.

[marktwain]

“We wouldn’t even have to THINK about carrying in public means if we had law & order.”

It is how we got to where we are. Society was so well ordered, and crime so low, that no one considered any need to carry arms.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/armed-citizens-and-modern-frontier.html

I carry mostly for political purposes:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/02/i-carry-firearm-for-political-purposes.html

[AppyPappy]

“If I see a guy carrying a big gun like this while I’m shoping(sic), I have to assume he’s a bad guy and shoot him. “

So they would shoot a plain clothes policeman. Interesting.

[ctdonath2]

“Why is she carrying a gun in Kroger? These peoples’ brains are not connected to their mouths.”

She’s carrying a gun in Kroger so she can shoot anyone who has a gun in Kroger.
Self correcting situation?

[9YearLurker]

Yes, but their gun is presumably concealed, so it would take still one more level of paranoia to feel threatened by their capacity to shoot.

[Brother Cracker]

[Justa]

What if the shoulder strap is for his MP5?

Some people dress up to go out.

[BenLurkin]

Somebody explain to the guy that grown men wear pants.

[Justa]

Not in FL.

[bravo whiskey]

i’m 62 and i wear shorts as much as possible, given Colorado weather. i vote for open carry legislation and politicians but i don’t open carry. i know the arguments on both sides but all of my friends who conceal carry do so for that extra tactical advantage. of course, as Mossad Ayoob says, you have to alter your wardrobe in some cases to make it work.