Posted on 01/18/2013 8:28:55 AM PST by Daffynition
RIVERDALE — Pictures of a man carrying a rifle inside a big box store in Riverdale are raising a lot of eyebrows. The woman who took them tells KSL the man had no business bringing the gun where he did.
It was supposed to be just a regular trip to the JC Penney. Wednesday night, Cindy Yorgason was in line to return something when she saw a man with some pretty heavy fire power.
"He had the assault rifle over his shoulder," Yorgason said. "He had a handgun on the right side of his belt along with at least one additional clip."
She got out her phone after she said "a couple of other customers started to raise their eyes and look at this guy like, ‘Is he crazy?'"
She never felt threatened, but she believes a place like JC Penney is an inappropriate place to bring a weapon.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksl.com ...
A confident person doesn’t need to go to this extreme to say “Look Look at ME!”. Concealed carry provides protection without making businesses put up MORE RESTRICIONS because of these not too well thought out actions.
Why not?
How do you know that no one will ever do a mass shooting in JCP? This dude openly carrying makes sure that it would not happen while he's there.
Not like if he opened fire would hit anybody......
JC Penney is DEAD since decided to ditch everything and
go teenbopper and Homosexual.....
It doesn’t appear that she has a mag inserted which brings up another question where does she have it.
To which I say, "Bring it!"
You're knee-jerking this, Bob, and I doubt you're going to find many on this forum who are sympathetic to your beliefs.
Millions of men in American history openly-carried their rifles, shotguns, and pistols, and I bet you couldn't muster more than 100 incidents CAUSED by those carriers.
Carrying a rifle in a mall is a deterrent, IMO. No punk kid, no emo or goth kid, no ghetto fabulous thug is going to approach that man and attempt to take that rifle or even JOKINGLY come up behind him for any reason. It's that sort of normalization that I'm talking about.
Inner city kids and thugs go up to innocent, peaceful Americans in almost daily-documented cases "playing" the "knockout game" or otherwise accosting them. Do you HONESTLY think that they'd even contemplate something like that against a man openly-carrying a rifle and a pistol?
If you want to be limp-wristed in the exercise of your rights, go for it. Personally, I will proudly walk the mall, the grocery store, and through any establishment that allows me to carry my weapon. If they have signs posted stating that they're a gun-free establishment, I shop elsewhere. It's that easy.
I he were holding hands with another man would anyone have complained about the guns?
If he were...
I'd love to see tooled leather holsters and slings come back as fashion accessories. Not to mention gold inlay, scroll work engraving, etc...
Long gun. Pistol. Broadsword. Chainsaw... Individual Right, individual choice.
The more people realize that "man with weapon" is not automatically an "OMGWTFBBQ" situation, the more people will see it as normal.
This is a good thing.
I think it’s a NY legal mag.
I raffed out roud...
More good guys than bad guys out there. We'd soon run out of bad guys.
This is not bad for society.
Wow! How old are you, sir? I’m 32 years old, and I’ve never seen it in my day, but I’ve seen pictures of my father and my uncles with their rifles IN SCHOOL. No school shootings back then. I have a picture of my uncle at a gas station putting fuel in his boat with a revolver on his hip.
This was NORMAL just 50 years ago. Now people like you are “afraid” of an “incident” in a mall or a store.
And the whole “Gun Free Zone” argument is a canard. If they want to ban guns, then do it. We’ll patronize businesses that are gun-friendly. You should think the same way, regardless if you carry or not.
Stuffed into the front of her bikini bottom, of course. ;-) Well, in actuality, it's probably in a pouch affixed to the sling. Either way, those Israeli ladies must have the coolest tan lines ever.
Of course not.
But then again, neither does my business.
If enough people held to principle, it'd be a self-correcting problem.
While I’ve pleasured greatly in looking as closely as possible to tell, is there a magazine in that rifle?
I'm older (and wiser LOL) than you. I come from the time we had gun racks in back glass in our unlocked trucks at school. Yeah, 50 years ago it was different. What has changed? People. We have too many of them. And too many screwballs. It is better to be discreet than to go around bragging by showing off. Pride goeth before a fall. And the fall will come when too many show-offs do what you say because either (1) the gun holder reacts when confronted by store-owners/police or the (2) the police over-react to Mr. Harmless not raising his hands quick enough. You're courting disaster unnecessarily.
Also, why is this guy a “BOZO?” You’re using a LOT of defamatory language to refer to someone exercising his RIGHT to carry a firearm.
The Second Amendment says nothing about concealed carry. It says “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Open-carry is as much “bearing” those arms as is carrying concealed.
Likewise there’s no law about being “quiet” about unsavory elements of society in the press. “If it bleeds, it leads.” So why castigate lawful gun bearers when you likely yell at your TV on a regular basis for journalists being idiots?
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