Derpitude: Open Carry Group in Texas sues because they can’t approach motorists while fully armed

[TexasTowelie]

Two weeks ago, Open Carry Tarrant County in Texas threatened legal action and now they’re following through by suing over an ordinance they feel is directed at their group after they have approached vehicles on the street with rifles strapped across their backs. You see, scaring the living shit out of someone is their winning strategy.

Their ‘look at me’ protest with vehicles is to hand out copies of the Constitution, because they must think the public has no idea where to get one of those.



Led by Kory Watkins (in the picture above with his rifle pointed at his foot), the group just sued Arlington in Fort Worth federal court, claiming the ordinance redo is infringing upon its First Amendment rights to talk about the Second Amendment to passers-by (usually, while heavily armed), The Dallas Morning News reports.

Here’s Kory with his ‘fellow patriots’:

More at http://freakoutnation.com/2014/05/28/derpitude-open-carry-group-in-texas-sues-because-they-cant-approach-motorists-while-fully-armed/ .

[kysrsoze]

1. Is consider someone armed like that walking toward me assault with a deadly weapon

... and hit them with my car. WTF? Losers

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. My first automatic assumption would be 'carjacking'.

I can't see how their idiot idea results in anything less than 'inducing panic'.

[kentauros]

6. I would think the assumption of a carjacking

would be a legitimate defense against these wackos.

[flamin lib]

3. Where in the 2nd amendment does it say anything

about a right to be an idiot asshole bent on intimidating innocent people? I seem to have missed that clause.

[kentauros]

4. If they get into the road,

as pictured above, then I'd say that gives me the right to run them over.

[immoderate]

13. "Stand your ground" state. If you have fear -- take them out!

What could go wrong?

--imm

[kentauros]

16. Then that means I have a right to stand my ground with my car!

Or is that "roll my ground" and "grind your feet"?

Bill Hicks had the right idea:

[upaloopa]

5. This is a good representation of the mindset of gunners.

A complete unwillingness to see or care about the needs of the rest of us. They live in a gunner paradigm. It is not the one normal people live in. They carry their courage around like a little kid carries a stuffed animal. They are anxious and insecure without the gun like a little kid is anxious and insecure with out his teddy bear. We need to point out how fucked up their world is so maybe they will come out from behind the fear and paranoia put down their guns and face life with the kind of courage the rest of us have.

[kentauros]

7. Maybe we should hire a Marine DI

to get in their faces and prove to them how little courage they truly have

[Maedhros]

11. Their guns are fetishes in the true sense of the word:

physical objects imbued with spiritual power.

It's their courage, freedom and self-esteem all wrapped up in one package. And someone wants to take it away!

[hobbit709]

8. What if the guy they walked up to is armed and thinks he's being carjacked.

[immoderate]

14. Simple. He can take them out.

"Stand your ground," you know.


I think the 'invisible hand' of the free market gets involved somehow, and solves it.

--imm

[Turbineguy]

9. I see Kory Watkins is showing off his

testicles:

[Maedhros]

10. If one of these UberPatriots approaches me with a loaded AR-15 on the street,

am I allowed to shoot him in self-defense because I perceive him to be a threat and need to stand my ground?

[immoderate]

15. Yup.

--imm

[Maedhros]

17. It would seem to be in the best interests of everyone involved to pass laws preventing

people from openly carrying loaded firearms in public places to avoid such misunderstandings.

[immoderate]

18. Open carry + stand your ground = [not good!]

--imm

[Fred Sanders]

12. The inability of the public to distinguish the good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun until

the very moment the bad guy shoots you in the head must be very frustrating to these people, and very comforting to the bad guys.

[mbperrin]

19. That's the real nub.

These idiots are out in our neck of the woods as well.

As a lifelong educator, I despair.

[malokvale77]

20. Sometimes I wish one of these...

assholes would approach my car. There would be one less idiot openly carrying.

This shit is so childish.