Posted on 08/08/2019 3:25:13 PM PDT by Celerity
Here is my quandary. And this is proposed for anyone on either side of the red-flag debate. But I will give you a real-world look at how these ridiculous laws work.
This is a TRUE STORY. This is actually happening, I don't know what to do.
I work Uber for side cash. I am also developing a new system to help rideshare drivers better manage their time and make more money.
At our airports are "Queues". When you arrive to the airport and are waiting for a ride, you are geo-fenced into a parking lot and placed into a "First served" style queue. So this means an hour (or 4) of waiting around and talking to other drivers. Learning their stories and getting to know them. Not friends, mind you. To Uber we are all competitors. We don't share advice and we aren't out to help each other. In a queue though, all things are equal and there is nothing more to do against your competition than just wait in line with them.
There is a guy there. He's a creep. The world is full of creeps though. An older gent, he walks around and bums cigarettes off of people. He also talks to you from inches away, says off color stuff and tells really off color jokes.
He always something to say about "The ****ing faggots" the "dirty indians" or "Some kike". The guy is just abrasive as hell and he won't go away.
Well last night after a few seconds of unusual pause in his stream of BS he insulted a young woman there about being gay (She doesn't say anything about being gay, she's pregnant and just has rainbow stickers on her car). She took offense to his profanity-laced anti gay rant. She storms off. He then looks at me and says, without any humor and says "You know, half of the people here in this parking lot need to be killed".
When I approached him (We were alone at this point) he corrected his statement by saying "not because they are faggots or anything, but because this queue needs to be a lot shorter".
Here is the problem. This guy is a classic example of "Yeah, he could totally shoot this place up". And I believe he has the mental stability to do the deed.
And with this single action, I become the @$$hole.
One can’t just go around threatening people with their gun ... even in conversation.
This is the biggest problem I have with fathers who openly talk about threatening daughter’s boyfriends. It’s crazy and irresponsible.
“You need legislation there in northeastern states to have people who are rude, vulgar or annoying hauled off to camps for the mentally ill,”
Arkansas. Thanks for playing though !
This guy has exhibited all the classic post-event recollections that we hear all the time.
Also, “Queue” is a word. We aren’t in line. We aren’t waiting in a row.
He sounds like a typical obnoxious Jersey boy, there are a lot of them like this.
Both Uber and Lyft prohibit drivers possessing firearms while driving.
Thus, you’re the problem.
Correct your behavior and ignore the other man.
No nasty attitude intended. I was trying to point out how these “red flag” laws empower the unlicensed and untrained to make clinical assessments. It is wrong to put a person in that position.
There are procedures in place that already allow for a person to be committed -if- the courts find that person either incompetent or a danger.
You forgot the “mind your own business” option.
So the old dad-of-teenage-daughter saw "I have a shotgun, forty acres and a backhoe" is out?
Oh, I’m sorry about my attitude then! I thought you were attacking me. Sorry about my retort.
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