Posted on 06/06/2014 4:35:22 AM PDT by marktwain
William Polster on a Open Carry Walk |
...a solo open carry guy in downtown milwaukee wold not get the same treatment. hed be taken down and cuffed. and flynns said so.Secret Agent Man is referring to the infamous statement of Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn, in 2009. It shows how far reaching a police chief's statements can be in chilling the exercise of Constitutional rights. In 2009, before the passage of the shall issue law in Wisconsin, Chief Flynn said, as recorded on washingtoncountysheriffwi.org:
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it."I do not know of any incidents where Chief Flynn's "troops" carried out his threat; even a Milwaukee Police Chief seems to know when to back down. The legislature changed the law in 2011, and it appears that police are mostly abiding by it. Some monetary settlements to open carriers may have helped.
Milwaukee resident extends hand to welcome open carrier to neighborhood |
We now know that homicide and gun violence are overwhelmingly concentrated among serious offenders operating in groups: gangs, drug crews, and the like representing under half of one percent of a city's population who commit half to three-quarters of all murders.The problem with inner city urban areas is that the people there have become acculturated to not trusting the justice system. If you look all over the globe, you see that lack of trust as the common factor in high homicide rates: If people do not trust the system to be effective and dispense fairly reliable justice, the homicide rate soars. Europeans in the middle ages had homicide rates in the range of those of inner city urban crime centers and failed nations-states today.
> Think of the reprehensible Dirty Dozen, a lot of them were ugly and probably scared the cattle.
Unfortunately many of the LIV cattle have voting rights and the president’s ear because they’re gay or donate their leftist liberal $$$ to him (and earn as much as the 1%’ers but aren’t called on itor audited for some strange reason). I would rather pull back and take the issue off the radar by not inflaming especially when we have a dictator who makes “laws” based on knee-jerk reactions personal agendas over the will of the people with his magic pen. If you’re not LEOs, solders, PPO’s, or on the firing range I just think its not a good idea to carry what looks like an “assault weapon” by the MSM and the lefties right now to preserve those rights. The only guys I’ve seen carrying AR-15’s over their shoulders are young guys so far. It gives the appearance of being about ego, bravado, and lack of wisdom. I’m not against owning them or carrying them at all. I’m just asking for them to use a little common sense in the matter. BTW - I am former LEO and PPO and have been trained to use them and enjoy firing them on the range...: )
i agree with that statement too.
What you said is so true,and it’s something We the People must remember: “All wars are won as a result of hundreds of different strategies and tactics.”
We must never give up, we must use our God given intellect and ingenuity to do anything and everything we can to refuse, delay, deny, obstruct, destroy the enemy in OUR White House. We are the freedom fighters for our time...so let’s operate like freedom fighters and stay focused on our goals.
Nah. Just RE-packing shotgun shells these days! :)
I wonder why?
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