Posted on 11/16/2013 1:10:26 PM PST by Jean S
A man in camouflage who alarmed Madison neighbors when he walked down a street with an uncased shotgun Saturday morning turned out to be a hunter thwarted by city parking.
The Madison Police Department said in a statement that the man, a University of Wisconsin student, had been hunting outside the city and was unable to find parking close to his residence. He decided to walk home from his parked vehicle with an uncased shotgun, police said.
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Some people think simply possessing a firearm in public is a good enough reason for police to shoot them down like a dog.
crazy
Makes ya wonder who the real ‘prey’ is,, and in Madison or all places
This was 1961. I was 9 years old.
Today, that would attract a SWAT team and a herd of do-gooders trying to get me away from the candy and cigarettes, plus life in prison for my parents.
What used to be a fun afternoon has been turned into a dozen crimes.
The shogun to be reported by left-wing fear monegring reporters as being a AK-AR Glock Assault high cap ‘Gazooka’ and a weapon of mass distruction with a swiss army attachment and a compass built into the stock!
Reminds me a few years back I was giving a woman from Madison a ride in our country side. Keep in mind I live in a sparsely populated state with a population of less than a million and 50,000 is a large city.
Anyway, we were out in the middle of nowhere when she noticed a school bus and asked me what it was doing out here.
I said picking up kids for school.
Her reply was: “Kids live out here and go to school in these small towns, that’s child abuse.”
She was dead serious. I just shut up.
Incidents like this one are what point out the drastic changes in American life over the last 70 or so years. I, and many others, used to walk around Northern CA carrying rifles, shotguns and holstered pistols all the time without one cop being called or one person having a panic attack over it. Now the mere sight of a gun sits off several panic attacks per 100 yards. The news media and the lefies have done a great job brainwashing the public about the “evil” guns.
The wussy ones just shoot their dogs.
You should have kicked her out and made her walk. With any lick shed have been eaten by coyotes.
Last year someone called the cops on my son because he had a plastic toy gun from dollar general and was wearing a camo shirt.
Geez! They didn’t kill him??!
Has Madison gone crazy (for them)?
Last winter I am driving down a dirt road coming back from checking on a house job. A man was standing in the road with a shotgun. Did I:
freak out and speed up
poop my pants as I crashed into the woods
Stop and hello to my brother-in-law who was rabbit hunting.
Our coyotes do not eat manure.
Yea, I was reading the comments to the article.
That stupid moron Mary Martha is just the kind of idiot who makes trouble all around with her dizzy headed buffoonery.
Those types are the ones needing psychiatric help. And in a BIG damn way.
1960s, high school, 2:45 pm. Me and about 3 to 4 other guys went to our cars, put on the over cloths, took our shotguns out the trunk, and headed to the gym.
The gym teacher got his duds on, took his piece out of his locker in his office, and the whole bunch of us walked through the school, out the front door, and across the street to a REALLY BIG FIELD. (You could get a bunch of birds and rabbits out that damn field on a daily basis!)
The principle had only one iron clad rule: all shotguns were either broke open, or the pump action back with the chamber exposed.
(Since we were just poor farm boys, none of us, except the gym teacher, could afford a pump. All we had were single and double barrel barn guns.)
No one, NOT ONE PERSON, thought anything wrong.
My cousin lived in Philly. He and his buds used to take the trolley to the great North East and shoot their .22s.
When gettin on the trolley, the driver would only look to see that the bolts were either out or open.
Imagine that, young boys riding a trolley through Philly with a rifle. No case, who could afford that?
And it wasn’t only white kids then. Black kids did it too. No one raised an eyebrow.
Things have changed badly in a scant 50 years.
Yes they have!
Bustard!
You almost made me spill my saturday night DRINK with that one!
LOL
Notice I said ALMOST. No one is EVER gonna accuse me of alcohol abuse.
Wonder how many people even know what that cartoon means!
What games were played with balls in Jefferson’s time?
Sad but true.
Just about every boy I grew up with had a .22 rifle at a young age.
I’m waiting for the 9pm news. I’m sure it’ll be a top story here in Madistan, LOL!
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