Open Carry did not delay Police Response in Colorado Shooting (ref coward at salon.com)

gunwatch.blogspot.com ^ | 11/6/2015 | Dean Weingarten

[rktman]

The disarmists are claiming that the police did not respond to the shooter in Colorado Springs because the State has open carry rights, as do 45 states of the United States. From R Bruce Magee, a commenter on kpbs.org:

This past weekend. a man was seen wandering a Colorado Springs neighborhood brandishing a heavy weapon. Recognizing the man as a neighbor, a woman called 911. The dispatcher told her the police couldn't do anything about the man due to the state's Open Carry Law. Within a few minutes of that phone call, the man had shot and killed three innocent people and was headed downtown.

Except that is *not* what happened. Here is what the caller, Naomi Bettis said happened.

[rktman]

Okay, here's a piece by Dean Weingarten that puts to bed the BS salon.com piece of garbage. Thanks to Mark Twain. :>}

[mulnir]

“I’m gonna go and murder a bunch of people! Oh, wait, dang-it I can’t, I’m not allowed to open carry my gun, well crud, now what?” That is how the banning of open carry would have prevented this tragedy?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rktman.