Just curious if you’d be Ok with the gangs walking around with high cap semi auto rifles? It would be their right after all.
What exactly do these cowboys think is going to happen? Are they really that scared?
It's not about being scared. It's about exersizing a constitutional right, and normalizing it in the eyes of the public.
/johnny
so it’s ok to legally conceal carry, but not ok to legally open carry. is it ok for me to carry a 10-.22? or how about a Yugo 24/47? or a muzzle loader? where would you draw the line? where would you have the government draw the line? is it ok to conceal carry a .41 rem mag? or a .40 cal? or a bond derringer?
you guys are just like the government, wanting to impose your beliefs, will, upon others.
Not posted to you /johnny, u r just handy. :-)
As long as the bangers aren’t prohibited persons, I’m perfectly groovy with them or anyone else being strapped overtly or covertly.
As for your scared characterization...C’mon, scared? Really?
Well, you said “it is their right”.
SO it doesn’t matter if I like it or not. They can do it. And they should not be arrested for doing something they have a right to do, just because it makes others uncomfortable.
There was a time black people got arrested walking down a street because their very presence made white people uncomfortable. There are times when a guy with a bible gets harassed by police because he is too close to a muslim event.
We need to have open carry be so obvious, and so ubiquitous, that people get used to it.
Of course, I don’t actually buy your assumption that gangs have a right to have guns. My guess is that, being “gangs” indicates that they are probably underage, and most likely have a criminal record already. Otherwise, they are just clubs.
My answer: yes, I would be okay provided the following is true:
A) They are not felons, have no outstanding warrants, and are not brandishing the weapon but carrying it in a safe manner (muzzle down, not in "ready" position)
B) They are not in the presence of felons or in possession of any prohibited substances, are sober or otherwise unimpaired in their judgement, and are well regulated in their use of that weapon
Just because you don't like the idea of a perceived gangbanger in possession of a weapon, doesn't mean that person is immediately guilty of a crime or unlawfully carrying.
Free men, men who live a life of liberty, do not hide their rights under their shirts. You call these men cowboys, I call them free men. They have the right to openly carry, and they exercised that right. It's law enforcement and the citizens with whom they came in contact who need to be taught about the rights of free men.
If members of the gang did LEGALLY, they have the right to do so. Yeh, like gang members do this all the time. Come on..