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Only in America: Gunman waits outside town hall meeting for Obama - and police say it's OK
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 12, 2009

Posted on 08/12/2009 4:34:27 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A 9mm pistol holstered clearly to his side, and holding a placard that references spilling the blood of patriots, this gunman is waiting for none other than Barack Obama.

But instead of being wrestled to the ground by police and taken away to prison, William Kostnic is left untouched - because it is legally OK to carry a weapon in New Hampshire so long as it is not concealed. Even American commentators were taken aback at the sight.

'Just to be clear,' a baffled MSBC anchor said to the reporter on the scene.

'You're saying a guy has a gun in the open - where we already know there are concerns about every president's safety, but certainly this president... and the guy's just being allowed to stay there? Is that right?' The reporter replied that the chief of police had told him that 'the law allows this man to be here'.

Kostnic was waiting for the U.S. president before a town hall meeting in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday. He stood in the grounds of a nearby church, which was private property, and police had no objections to his presence, MSNBC reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bhotownhalls; kostnic; kostric; newhampshire; opencarry; townhall
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1 posted on 08/12/2009 4:34:27 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

But, the sight of armed police don’t seem to concern them. Bunch of wusses.


2 posted on 08/12/2009 4:35:56 AM PDT by doodad
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

cool!

So why worry about this man with a gun but not the other men with guns.


3 posted on 08/12/2009 4:37:30 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

British weenie roast.

Their $65 million diamond heist used guns too..


4 posted on 08/12/2009 4:37:47 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Good thing they didn’t know about the Geek Seeking robot bullets in the guys gun.


5 posted on 08/12/2009 4:38:18 AM PDT by wolfcreek (KMTEXASA!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
There are always a very large number of guns surrounding the president. Including the high-powered rifle sighted in on the guy with the LEGAL open-carry gun at his side.

What if someone tried something and a legal carry citizen PREVENTED an assassination attempt? Isn't that just as possible?

6 posted on 08/12/2009 4:40:56 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Carrying guns openly sure goes a long way to create a much more polite society.


7 posted on 08/12/2009 4:41:01 AM PDT by taxtruth (STAND UP OR BE STOOD ON!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And the prez. is going to enter thru the front door?? Gimmie a break.


8 posted on 08/12/2009 4:41:08 AM PDT by Waco (Libs exhale too much)
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'You're saying a guy has a gun in the open - where we already know there are concerns about every president's safety, but certainly this president...

Hum...

Guess "The One" is special...

To be honest, given the fevered pitch of the rhetoric against him and the mental health of these so inclined, I think that would apply more to Bush than Obama.

Of course Bush wasn't "the chosen one"

9 posted on 08/12/2009 4:41:39 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (There's something socialist in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call? MITTBUSTERS!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Love the title. Makes it sound like the guy was waiting in ambush. LOL


10 posted on 08/12/2009 4:42:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He got the main part wrong- “watering the tree of liberty with the blood of Tyrants and Patriots....” No need to obviscate the labels....


11 posted on 08/12/2009 4:45:46 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret) "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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I’m fairly sure that the MSNBC twit that asked that stupid question would have probably tried to hide the fact of an armed citizen around the president if Bush was still in office.


12 posted on 08/12/2009 4:49:03 AM PDT by Larry381 ("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Gunman waits outside town hall meeting for Obama-and police say it’s OK.”

The other side of the coin is that subversive liberals are walking around with power and shooting from the hip, not caring what damage their elitist arrogance does.

They go on to project their own dangerous attitudes onto the man who lawfully carries a gun who is posing no threat to anyone. Their main gripe seems to be with the harmless display of the “dangerous” words of Thomas Jefferson.

Maybe they don’t like to tremble because that’s what Mr. Jefferson’s beautiful and profound words do to tyrants.

IMHO


13 posted on 08/12/2009 4:55:25 AM PDT by ripley
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Shouldn’t this headline read “Man exercises both First AND Second Amendment Rights”. God given rights confuse the God-less.


14 posted on 08/12/2009 5:01:50 AM PDT by 762X51
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Shouldn’t this headline read “Man exercises both First AND Second Amendment Rights”. God given rights confuse the God-less.


15 posted on 08/12/2009 5:01:56 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: Waco
“And the prez. is going to enter thru the front door?? Gimmie a break.”

I would be willing to bet a steak dinner that somewhere in the background there was a sniper who constantly had his cross hairs on this dude - waiting for any ever so slight threat movement - then pop, history....

16 posted on 08/12/2009 5:04:35 AM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: doodad

GB police are not armed with anything other than billyclubs.

No guns.


17 posted on 08/12/2009 5:06:32 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He was probably carrying the gun in case he got approached by Democrat thugs. After all, he was displaying the same “Don’t Tread on Me” flag that got somebody beaten.


18 posted on 08/12/2009 5:07:25 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Brits in a proverbial snit over open carry? Not surprising. They’ve blazed the trail to destruction via political correctness. Now, we are along for the ride.

It’s time to take back the country.


19 posted on 08/12/2009 5:11:12 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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If MSNBC is so intellectually dishonest that they won’t report on an innocent person getting beaten by SEIU thugs, why should we take their reporting of this guy seriously?


20 posted on 08/12/2009 5:11:22 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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