Posted on 10/04/2014 6:47:48 AM PDT by 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: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.
"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?
“I have to assume he’s a bad guy and shoot him. ”
Why? Because you’re an irrational paranoiac?
And with what? ...since only bad guys have guns in stores? Or is that another layer to the confession here?
LOL
“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.”
Why is she carrying a gun in Kroger? These peoples’ brains are not connected to their mouths.
Pith helmet short shorts and an shoulder bag....the fashion police might plug him.
Their mouth is NOT connected to their brains because they don’t have brains!!!
It’s not the gun. It’s the safari hat. Ban safari hats! /sarc
MT, I have been carrying concealed everyday for almost twenty years and I have never had a problem, not madmoms, no police, no printing of the weapon, no accidental ride ups. No problems.
And I carry it everywhere, except places I know is prohibited by Fed law, (cause those jokers are damn serious about putting a case on you), or where I stand a chance of getting patted down.
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. I know, some don’t care if it does stir them up, but comments made about SWATing open carry individuals should be taken seriously. Even more seriously, are the comments of preemptively shooting open carriers as a percieved threat. Some motivated individual might just make good on that just to make a political point. The it will become a national issue and debate and with the liberal media involved, I don’t think the NRA has the ink they do. As we are all aware their propaganda machine is immense and voracious and could make easy hay promoting pictures of open carry individuals, particularly those few goofballs acting stupid while carrying rifles.
Then throw the race or ethnicity issue in? That’s a stew we might not want to cook...
An anonymous call to the police with comments of threatening behavior by the carrier, real, false or percieved can have tragic results, like the kid in Wal-Mart. People blame the guy that called it in, but proving intent with malice is going to be a difficult case.
Personally, my red line is the repeal of all the hard fought battles for concealed carry and I firmly believe out of sight it also out of mind.
YMMV...
That was my first reaction ...
If I see you carrying, you are to be shot by me (because I'M carrying) because you scare me (for doing what I'M doing)
HUH ?
sheesh ... I replied before reading ... we’re ALL of one mind.
I’d be more tempted to shoot him for wearing that bizarre costume? Indian Jones meets Dr. Livingstone meets cute metrosexual shorts?
You owe me a keyboard, pal ...
Exactly what I was thinking. This guy must carry to ward off a possible fashion arrest.
Classic Liberal (il)logic on full display.
Having been on the receiving end of liberal bile more times than I care to count, I firmly believe that, if given the chance, liberals would round-up those of us with whom they disagree and, at a minimum, put us in concentration camps. The only thing standing in the way of that dream is our guns.
I live to serve...
ANYONE who has a problem with either open or concealed carry probably shouldn’t own a gun anyway.
The only thing I see in the pic that anyone should complain about is *maybe* his fashion sense. Other than that, nothing to get worked up over.
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