Posted on 09/19/2013 3:08:59 AM PDT by marktwain
GLASTONBURY — A man who became alarmed when he saw a man carrying a gun inside the TD Bank at 2461 Main St. last Thursday afternoon was himself charged with breach of peace because he shook up bank staff.
Robert Gursky, 50, of Cavan Lane, was in the bank transacting business when he saw a person with a handgun. The person he saw was legally carrying the firearm and had no ill intent, police said.
Gursky, however, was concerned and tried to convey what he saw to a bank teller.
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This is the problem.
In places like CT and NJ (where I live), gun sightings are so rare that just seeing one makes the sheeple panic.
We have strayed far from our roots.
Here in Maine, the bank my mother uses once had a sign on the door prohibiting hats.
The few times I went in there with my mother I was wearing a baseball cap, and I kept it on my head. No one said anything. If they had, I would have told them to go to hell.
While on another visit to the bank, I told my sister, “What happens if a woman undergoing chemo-therapy enters the bank wearing a head scarf to cover her hair loss? Are they going to tell her to remove it? What if a Muslim woman comes in wearing a scarf over her head? Are they going to tell her to take it off? There’s going to be a big stink raised and a lawsuit!”
It wasn’t long before those signs were removed.
Meanwhile, bank robberies in Maine are extremely rare. In my area of Maine, where I’ve been for over 20 years, I can’t recall there ever being a bank robbery.
We need more stories like this. Great find marktwain.
Isn’t NJ a “may-issue” state, that has turned into a effective “no-issue” state unless you can prove you potentially needed one in the past for defense? At least CT is “shall-issue.”
I though they only only anted cops to have gun to protect them. They are scare of that too? They really do need to be institutionalized.
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