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Posted on 02/22/2010 6:35:44 AM PST by marktwain
COVINGTON -- Duncan Dohmen wants people to notice the pistol he carries.
He isn't a police officer and tells people that when he's asked. He likes these chances to educate people about a right afforded them 219 years ago -- a right he fears could be stripped.
"Rights not exercised are rights lost," said the 68-year-old resident of Covington in King County. "... I was walking around for 18 years with a pistol secretly concealed and it alarmed nobody. Then I realized that (openly) carrying a pistol might cause questions."
So for the past two years Dohmen has openly worn his Smith & Wesson 1911 model .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. He's an active member of the Open Carry movement and takes any chance he gets to talk about the right to bear arms under both the U.S. and Washington constitutions.
(Excerpt) Read more at tri-cityherald.com ...
Say WA? Evergreen State ping Causes a stir, eh? What did the other customers do? Did they go running to management, saying, “Mommy, Mommy, please get rid of that awful man with that big handgun?”
No, that was when the police showed up! *sarcasm off*
Yep, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
She's probably back in her double-wide or project apartment thinking, "Yeah, I taught that sumbitch a lesson, didn't I?"
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum57/38256-2.html
Lots of inside information that was not in the article.
That’s because a majority of liberalism is a genetic defect. There’s something missing. When a conservative engages a liberal in a debate, we are speaking a language they can not understand, talking about concepts that they can not grasp. That’s why I don’t waste my time talking to liberals anymore.
Funny how the so called “right to privacy” does not extend to our guns & ammo!
When I was a deputy sheriff in a rural county we would be, and usually were, a long way out. People would call and wait for us while dogs were killing their livestock! It just amazed me. I’d tell them to buy a rifle and next time get to work. Some of them would stare at me slackjawed as though I were insane.
Most folks took care of business and didn’t waste their time calling us. Some folks just insisted on being taken care of.
I wonder if McD has a corporate policy.
Regardless, as much as open carry is a right, so is
a private property owner entitles to control what
happens on his private property.
Prosser is a stop on I-90 heading toward Spokane/Idaho
and points east and is a pretty busy place.
I do think that when a private property owner/manager requests an individual to leave, the person should exit immediately with no back talk, threatening, proselytizing or handing out brochures. I don't know what really happened. I might try to get to a hearing/trial if one is in the cards.
duh! thats right, its past Yakima, out in the ‘wine country’.
And Leftists always say they are the enlightened, intellectually superior ones!
Bears repeating.
I'm all for legal open carry, and ALL sides should be respectful of the law and the other person's rights, responsibilities and duties.
Martinez wrote that Dohmen "was extremely verbal and was very upset I was taking the firearm from him."
"I said, 'You do not have my permission to do that,' " Dohmen said of the officer taking his legally carried, loaded gun.
This would not have been my personal, preferred response when being legally stopped by uniformed officers.
Seems a bit odd also that when the police arrived, drawn and ready for the worst, that the wife's reaction is to try to get into the car in order to hand the officers some brochures.
Gail Dohmen, 63, said she was upset as she watched what was happening to her husband. She said she tried to grab Open Carry brochures from the car to give the officers but was told to move away or face arrest.
There's a time and a place for this sort of thing, and the middle of a stop like this is not it.
Many people do not do what we would consider the right thing at the appropriate time when in these sorts of situations.
It is either because they are extremist whackos, stupid, or not thinking clearly because they have never been on the wrong end of an encounter with the police. If you have been a law abiding citizen all your life and are suddenly being treated as suspect it tends to create a bit of an uproar.
I agree with your first paragraph. I also know that that specific law is BS. What may bother you, doesn’t bother me and vice versa.
I do not like police reports that have subjective garbage in them like “extremely verbal” and “very upset”. If I were his sergeant, his report would have been sent back with instructions to cite specific examples that show “very upset” and “extremely verbal.” Otherwise it is fluff, and a decent lawyer would eat him for lunch.
Simple philosophy. If it isn’t in the report it didn’t happen.
Points taken. Agreed and well-stated, thank you :-)
Thank you.
There is another story about the state supremes’ decision that states the 2nd amendment applies to Washingtonians.
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