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In reply to the discussion: Professor Has Simple Way To Deal With Open Carry Activists(VIDEO at Link) [View all]AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)93. Protecting themselves from whom?
Hey.... the Russians may show up at any moment!
(actually heard such arguments from ammosexuals)
GUN -
NUTS!
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Professor Has Simple Way To Deal With Open Carry Activists(VIDEO at Link) [View all]
Tripper11
Jan 2016
OP
So his plan is to steal from restaurant owners and servers to make a political point
Lee-Lee
Jan 2016
#4
Cops get away with killing people by saying "I felt my life was threatened."
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2016
#179
Obviously, the person carrying the firearm into a family restaurant is afraid of the world.
Fuddnik
Jan 2016
#68
Right? That's living in fear 24/7. But being afraid of the gun is irrational????
arcane1
Jan 2016
#253
Gun nuts are the ones afraid of the world, pal. People who don't want to be around guns are...
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2016
#121
No, the lawyer is correct and you are wrong. But that wasnt hard to figure out.
randys1
Jan 2016
#159
Talk to the lawyer. If I wanna know what a rash is, I dont ask an auto mechanic.
randys1
Jan 2016
#162
You could make it simpler by not comparing human beings with deadly weapons.
stone space
Jan 2016
#202
I'm orders of magnitude more likely to be killed in a car accident on the way to the restaurant
jberryhill
Jan 2016
#185
I'm sorry, but you gunners are so fucking weird. It isn't your guns that scare me . . .
Ed Suspicious
Jan 2016
#73
That does seem to be the only option available to the myopic or small mind
LanternWaste
Jan 2016
#110
to show that a(n) Amendment was factually based on slave patrols in Georgia, Virginia....
AlbertCat
Jan 2016
#99
If that amendment were based on slave patrols, why did those same folks go back to their own states-
X_Digger
Jan 2016
#171
I'm not compelled to act like these people are normal. There's nothing that will make me do so.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#91
Funny how that works. A cop can shoot any blavck person who "Goesfor a gun" even when there is not
Vincardog
Jan 2016
#142
People who open carry are proclaiming their ability to kill me with one finger.
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2016
#178
"a resident saw a man carrying a rifle on her residential block prior to a deadly gun rampage"
arcane1
Jan 2016
#252
a fire is an unsafe condition and demonstrably so. A firearm in a holster is not such a condition
Lee-Lee
Jan 2016
#37
Let's see: gun fantasy guy versus practicing attorney. Whose side should I choose?
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#96
Threats? Are you trolling or just willfully ignorant about the 911 system and basic civics?
branford
Jan 2016
#214
"a resident saw a man carrying a rifle on her residential block prior to a deadly gun rampage"
arcane1
Jan 2016
#254
thank you jberryhill for interjecting example and the law for gunhumpers. nt
bonniebgood
Jan 2016
#87
The notion that waiting for a check means you are held hostage to a gun-toter with unknown plans
jberryhill
Jan 2016
#97
So you want me to risk my life so some wanna be gun slinger can pretend his penis isn't as tiny
Augiedog
Jan 2016
#7
the odds are not "ridiculously low". Because besides mass shooting there are 'ACCIDENTAL' shootings.
KittyWampus
Jan 2016
#69
Accidental shootings don't all end in homicides, they often end in injuries.
KittyWampus
Jan 2016
#80
Not sure there are enough incidents of "armed clown walking into a restaurant"
Bradical79
Jan 2016
#146
Well, isn't that grown-up of them. Just the sort of people who should carry guns.
Demit
Jan 2016
#54
You can inform the business that you will settle the bill in a safe place outside the establishment
Tikki
Jan 2016
#79
So his plan is to steal from restaurant owners and servers to make a political point
AlbertCat
Jan 2016
#88
Some fucker with a gun walks in, I'm not going to wait around to see what he does.
Arugula Latte
Jan 2016
#132
When I was growing up, I lived for about three years in a rural town where everyone hunted.
haele
Jan 2016
#138
I lived for several years in a small town where a lot of poeple would open carry.
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2016
#180
Same here. Even in small towns, if they didn't know you, you couldn't open carry without challenge.
haele
Jan 2016
#195
I would let the courts decide on thousands of cases of people with families
alcibiades_mystery
Jan 2016
#27
He is reinforcing to not pay before you leave. That's more important. He may
MillennialDem
Jan 2016
#243
That's the best idea if you ever see anybody open carrying because you cannot dscern intent.
MohRokTah
Jan 2016
#84
Sound idea, MM. I like it. And no, I'm not being ironic, I simply agree with you on this. nt
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2016
#100
But of course. Did people really wait for the good Professor to say this before they got this clue?
lonestarnot
Jan 2016
#109
Which is the same most sane people would do if they saw a rattlesnake on the premises. K&R
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2016
#131
yes... At first I would just run... now I'd run and then call the police and pay afterwards
uponit7771
Jan 2016
#259
What i like about this thread is the gun folks who are NOT participating. Who may
randys1
Jan 2016
#154
If someone walked into a restaurant and loudly proclaimed "I can kill you all with one finger."
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2016
#177