Posted on 01/29/2013 4:39:32 AM PST by Ratman83
His crime was being stupid enough to post the image on Facebook. Really.
Open carry is legal in GA if you have a GA gun license. I like to wear mine in places where I know liberals hang out, but I haven't yet gotten around to doing so in a Starbucks. Thanks for reminding me to put that on my to-do list.
Open carrying in Starbucks may be a one time experience for me, because in GA the operator of a place of business can deny access to licensed gun carriers if they choose to.
Yeah the 1st Amendment thing is so blasé.
The grandmother just called and pointed out the picture...what motivated her was likely that she was enraged that an inner city man would dare spend time with his child.
Well they are here to serve and protect. /s
Note to the maternal grandmother: I will be amazed if you are EVER again allowed near your granddaughter. If such a frivolous complaint were filed against me, I would cut you completely and totally out of my life, my child's life, and any other contact with impressionable children that I could end. Some acts are so meddling and so petty that forgiveness comes eventually but at a very steep price that does not include forgetting.
Please explain the "stupid" part.
Is it stupid to put any photo on the net?
Is it stupid to put on a photo of a gun?
If a person who owns a gun puts a picture of it on the net, and it is possible to prove that the same person has custody of a child, is that "stupid"?
The risk to the child in the picture is no greater just because the child is pictured. Nor is the risk greater because the gun is pictured.
Does this mean that is is "stupid" for any person who owns a gun and has custody of a child to post a picture of themselves?
What is "stupid" is the notion that child protective services do not appear to operate based on "probable cause" and the necessity for a warrant swearing to the existence of that probable cause.
I don't see how any judge justifies not releasing this person immediately. Failing to do so is not only "stupid", it is tyranny.
All of the "stupid" in this case belongs to the government.
Mom and Dad are not married and are sharing custody. Dumb grandma will not be restricted by her daughter.
Know what my favorites are? The ones that say, “Oh well he had some sort of ‘prior’ so anything they did to him was justified.”
Gag city.
Obviously not an illegal immigrant!
Probably caught running a stop sign - easily justifies life in prison if not immediate execution without a trial
I am surprised he was not shot on the spot, while holding his daughter.
Yea an illegal would be out and given money for the inconvenience.
Stupid as in they will use any excuse to take your gun. Now that he has an arrest in his record goodbye any chances of ever owning a real one.
My brother predicted that they will start with trickery first. This is what he meant. Get a speeding ticket, turn in your guns. Fall behind on child support, guns gone. etc. File taxes late, by bye weapon.
An arrest doesn't disqualify one for gun ownership.
This man has committed no crime. The police who arrested him should have known this. The man has an excellent case for false arrest.
Tell that to a friend of mine. He still haven't gotten his rifles back. Bogus arrest and charges dropped.
Can he pass the background check and purchase some replacements? I wouldn't let confiscation leave me disarmed unnecessarily.
It is in NY so I have no idea now. His lawyer claimed that since he was unemployed at the time he would have a hard time convincing the judge to get his guns back.
I have no idea why that was even an issue.
If he is up-to-date, upstanding citizen, and he walks.
This may not be sufficient to explain the "stupid part", but I'll give it a shot. I'll admit that it might have been more appropriate for me to have said that it was not a good idea to post the picture at the time he did. Anyway he didn't commit any crime and the really "stupid" part of the entire affair is the part in which he was arrested and is being held in custody for simply doing something that is not a crime by any cop's or judge's interpretation of the law.
If the young man had posted the photo before the Connecticut school shooting it would not have been stupid, However, it just seems to me that in light of the general public's incredibly emotional reaction to the school shooting it was stupid of the guy to post a picture of himself holding what would probably appear to most people to be a real gun while also holding a small child. If he had posted the photo prior to the school shooting and the unprecedented hyper-emotional reaction of the American people, most of whom have already been brainwashed to fear guns and gun owners, I doubt there would have been much, if any, outraged reaction to the poor guy's picture.
For all I know he may have a higher IQ than most rocket scientists, but I still think it was was stupid of him to post that picture while the public's overly emotional reaction to the Newtown school shooting was at it's highest point. What he did was certainly not a crime, and it is outrageous that he was arrested for doing something that is not a crime by any interpretation of Ohio's laws. On the other hand, if he actually posted the picture before the school shooting took place it wasn't stupid to do so and I'm the stupid one for not checking out that possibility.
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