Posted on 02/01/2024 12:42:45 PM PST by DallasBiff
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A video taken by a high school student shows an Indiana lawmaker flash a gun to students who were visiting the statehouse to talk to legislators about gun control.
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Lucas, a Republican from Seymour, and the group then conversed outside the elevator and one of the students filmed the interaction, as was first reported by the Statehouse File, a student journalism news site at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana.
In the video, Lucas told the students that people have to protect themselves and referenced failures of law enforcement to prevent mass casualties during school shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas,
In discussing places where firearms are banned, Lucas said people aren’t “truly free” unless they can defend themselves. A student off camera asked Lucas if he means carrying a firearm. Just over six minutes into the 10-minute video, Lucas said, “I’m carrying right now,” and holds open his suit jacket exposing a holstered handgun. It was not immediately clear what kind of gun Lucas was carrying.
“Nothing about someone carrying a gun makes me feel safe,” a student said off camera after Lucas lifted his jacket.
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Sorry snowflake whether or not you feel safe it’s not the goal of society. That man has the right to be safe from the maniacs who would come in and do harm.
Never discuss Fight Club...
being a jerk is no reason to ban guns...
especially around gurlie children
Including public servants who wear blue livery?
The author author's first draft read "Lucas was carrying a black and very scary looking gun" but, surprisingly, some editor toned it down.
We’re they “triggered?”
Tell that to families of the people who were killed or taken hostage in Israel.
How many students died in the incident?
How many needed grief counselors?
That “student” is a poltroon.
That’s right.
Minors have no business simping for school administrators. Isn’t this conspiring to deny people their civil rights? Haven’t cops been arrested for denying civil rights? Why can schools get away with it. Gun ownership is a civil rights.
The snowflakes are running for their safe rooms. The Indiana and Indianapolis subreddits are aghast and shocked that he brandished a weapon in front of terrified children, traumatizing them for ever. And they fall back on their feinting couches.
It was the teachers who were using the students as political pawns. Again. Another ‘spontaneous’ demonstration?
It’s so much better when you can openly discuss things. I was at a friend’s shop yesterday getting some work done on my truck.
I had a great discussion about politics and religion with another guy in the waiting room. He was typically ignorant about news besides what he heard on the soundbites but was very willing to talk. He’s black, I’m white. I even said “Wait a minute, aren’t we supposed to hate each other?”
Then I went to my buddy’s office and among other things, we talked guns. I didn’t show him my new one that I was carrying.
My neighbor, a state senator, has been noticed in several situations ‘concealed’ carrying. Not accidentally.
He should have been open – carrying!
If a good guy pulls a gun when a bad guy attacks, I wouldn’t feel good about possible stray bullets, but I would be relieved that the bad guy might be stopped.
Some morons can’t distinguish between revealing and brandishing.
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