CA:AP Pushes Gun "Panic" at LAX

Gun Watch ^ | 10 November, 2013 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

When criminals with a long history of burglary are caught in the act, the AP is very careful to call them "alleged" burglars.  When a gun owner is spotted by a hoplophobe and denounced to the local authorities, the "alleged" adjective is nowhere to be seen.


"Man pulls out unloaded gun, causes panic at LAX"
In spite of ambiguity in the police report:

Airport police Sgt. Karla Ortiz said the man either took out the gun or a gun carrying case around 9 p.m. Friday.

the headline leaves no doubt about the illegitimacy of the act of being a gun owner.  No details about how many people responded to the person who transferred some valuable and sensitive personal property from luggage where he was required to place it by law, to somewhere else that made more sense to him.

I can easily sympathise with this fellow.   I have carried a gun dozens of times though numerous airports in the United States, including Reagan International on the very edge of the District of Columbia.  The only place where I met utter panic and official incompetence was in California.  I had to educate  the officials there on the law and their responsibilities.   I cannot speak for New York City, I have managed to avoid them.

I doubt that this fellow did anything wrong, or that he had any indication that he was marked for persecution by one of his fellow air travelers.  

The point, of course, is to make the public exercise of second amendment rights a shameful thing, not accepted by "right thinking" members of the public, backed up by the use of force to demonstrate the power of the state over such "outmoded" concepts as constitutional rights and the rule of law.



©2013 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
Link to Gun Watch

[marktwain]

The desire is to de-legitimize the gun culture and drive it underground, where it can gradually be destroyed through attrition and indoctrination in the schools.

[ronnie raygun]

And when the riots start like in Londodn all these panzies will be ordering bats from amazon.com

[Travis McGee]

Holder’s brainwashing against guns is working, at least in ‘rat zone LA.

[Arm_Bears]

What happened to the story about the TSA shooter at LAX from 2-weeks ago? It sure disappeared quickly.

[FAA]

So, it sounds like some passenger was checking a piece of luggage for air transport and in the process had to take the firearm out of the luggage for inspection and tagging prior to loading?

[marktwain]

No, It appears that he was checking it to be sure it was still there after he arrived.

In the story, it says that he properly declared it before he boarded.

[ConservativeInPA]

This story just seems too foreign to me. I get it that some people are afraid of guns, but I feel like I live in different world. Just yesterday my neighbor walked down the street with his AR and a new barrel when he came over to my house to use my torque wench and barrel nut tool. He was late coming over because he was stopped twice by other neighbors on the way. They didn’t stop him out of fear, they wanted to talk guns.

[marktwain]

As predicted, the gun owner in LA was cleared of any wrongdoing.

Here is the update on Gun Watch:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/11/caap-pushes-gun-panic-at-lax.html

[ConservativeInPA]

Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad officers searched the man’s luggage before clearing the scene. The man was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon but was later released for not meeting the criteria of the brandishing charge, Ortiz said. He was cleared to carry the handgun.

Just think how much better our nation would be if after 9/11 the response was to allow law abiding gun owners to carry their weapons onto airplanes ... a hell of a lot less expensive that the TSA.

[MileHi]

Never did hear any more about that guy.