If you can be arrested for exercising your rights, your rights have been eroded to the point of being non-existant.
This young man deserves an award for defending his Constitutional rights.
1 posted on
07/11/2012 11:52:46 AM PDT by
marktwain
To: marktwain
He shouldn’t look so young.
2 posted on
07/11/2012 11:58:19 AM PDT by
arrogantsob
(Obama must Go.)
To: marktwain
Go for a trial by jury....
A bench trial is a slam-dunk on the wrong end of the court
(pun intended)
3 posted on
07/11/2012 12:03:47 PM PDT by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: marktwain
Hope he gets a walk and a nice parting gift from the city.
4 posted on
07/11/2012 12:10:55 PM PDT by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: marktwain
How do you possibly brandish a Garand while it is “strapped to your back”?
Slung over his shoulder possibly?
Still wouldn’t be brandishing.
To: marktwain
"Home rule" cities cannot over-ride the Constitutions protections for our Individual Rights.
Anyone suggesting that they can should be shot.
Enough is enough.
6 posted on
07/11/2012 12:18:38 PM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: marktwain
Leftists believe that rights are only rights until you decide to exercise them, then they are at the discretion of the government.
7 posted on
07/11/2012 12:38:52 PM PDT by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: marktwain
"City ordinances must follow constitutional law," Barron said. "(However), Home Rule cities have specific authority to enact ordinances in the interest of the city." And the ordinance is that he has the right to openly carry, and that he does not have to show his papers. Go ahead, enforce the ordinances, and arrest the cop for overstepping his authority. And being that the cop is obviously out of control, TAKE AWAY HIS GUN.
The LAW is the LAW boys, the black robe does not make you a dictator, it makes you a public servant.
10 posted on
07/11/2012 12:48:43 PM PDT by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: marktwain
Quick prediction. The “brandishing” charge is dead in the water. The failure to show identification will stick because of the obligation of the officer to insure that the person carrying the firearm was an adult and articulable suspicion under the Terry Rule is enough to stop, frisk and inquire.
This is socially approved profiling. Had the kid been brown the officer would have had the fall back of determining if he were a citizen. When these subtle definitions are inserted in the law, they have consequences.
Just a prediction unless the kid has gray hair and wrinkles.
12 posted on
07/11/2012 12:59:47 PM PDT by
Steamburg
(The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
To: marktwain
From what I have read on here and in the news he was 18 and his state is an open carry state. I don’t see any reason they should be trying him. He was legal.
I hope him and his lawyer slaps down the anti-gun pukes and sends them running away with their tail between their legs.
13 posted on
07/11/2012 1:05:31 PM PDT by
History Repeats
(Drink plenty of TEA, but avoid the Koolaid.)
To: marktwain
He was arrested for looking so young....
14 posted on
07/11/2012 1:15:04 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: marktwain
He was arrested for looking so young....
15 posted on
07/11/2012 1:15:33 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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20 posted on
07/11/2012 2:49:46 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: marktwain; Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
23 posted on
07/12/2012 9:29:08 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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