Man held his own

Don't you know the Secret Service is suffering. Protecting the current POTUS would be one hell of a busy detail. I cannot believe they would let this guy get to within 100 yards. Dollars for doughnuts they had more than a single set of cross-hairs on this guy the entire time. I applaud him for exercising his right to open-carry but wonder about his mental state. :oh:
 
RidgeRunner said:
Don't you know the Secret Service is suffering. Protecting the current POTUS would be one hell of a busy detail. I cannot believe they would let this guy get to within 100 yards. Dollars for doughnuts they had more than a single set of cross-hairs on this guy the entire time. I applaud him for exercising his right to open-carry but wonder about his mental state. :oh:
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im sure he is legit, but i bet he was nervous as all hell.
 
the only problem with guns at the schools around here has been with the Goose Creek City Police missuse of fireams at Stratford High School a few years back.
 
I bet some people at Columbine and at Virginia Tech wish that there was a regular citizen there with a concealed carry on them.

Walking into a day care with a side arm on is not really the point is it? The point is that Americans are the only people in the world right now outside the Swiss that have a legal right to own and use firearms for self defense and we need to protect it so we don't end up like a bunch of sheep and punami's like we have all over Europe and slaves of the state like we have over the rest of the world.

In the end the down fall of every country is the State, and the Statist's that put them in office. In this country the people were endowed with Constitutional rights by men with intelligence way beyond their peers before or since. The first was the right to free speech and assembly, the second, though some would argue the first in importance is the right to keep and bear arms.
This right though not exercised often in public is not the right to hunt, or to trap shoot, this right specifically involves the right of free men to take down a government that threatens their rights.
This is the point he is making, though I do not agree with the way he did it is that free men need to remind the Statist's and the sheep that feel that they know whats best for us that free men will do what ever is needed to prevent a omnipotent government from ruling us or going to far away from the Constitution.
That reminder is what got a lot of attention with the State controlled media, the reminder that there are still free men here and they will stay that way. One way or another.
 
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I am not understanding the logic in what you said.
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Let's say your morning routine is to drop your 2yr old and 4yr old off at daycare every morning before you go to work...you have walked them into the daycare building and while yer sayin' yer howdydos to the staff and kissing the loves of your life goodbye for the day, a guy walks in wearing a loaded handgun strapped to his thigh.

Some on this thread advocate it's OK to wear weapons on your person in open, public places. I'm just wondering if a daycare center is an appropriate place for one to demonstrate that right...just because he can.

And keep in mind, you don't know this person, don't know his background, training in gun-saftey or anything else about him.
 
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The real problem seems to be that people are not taught safety in all matters now and that common sense isn't the same anymore. I understand what reel is trying to say, but also look at the facts. How often do you hear of somebody committing these truely vial gun crimes in a an open fashion? People who do these kinds of things are the ones trying there best to conceal and hide there intentions until the last possible second. One of the reasons they do this is to try and make sure that armed citizens are NOT there to prevent them, or so they can target them first. It's an old saying but it is as true today as ever, "Gun's don't kill people, people kill people". And the people that use guns for crimes will continue to find guns to commit crimes, or they will find some other way to do what there twisted mind is going to do. To me the real problem is the lack of enforcement by society on people who commit these crimes. Many times the people that do these crimes give signs of there intentions or have been building up to it, but because people say they are just different or whatnot they're left alone until the unthinkeable happens. People like the one in question do not concern me, it's the ones you can't obviously see that do.
 
One of my best friends from high school was walking his 5 yr old son to the bus stop and holding his 2 yr old son, there were mom's and kids everywhere, a goofy neighbor with a history of issues speeds by the bus stop. My friend and others yelled to slow down. Guy came up out of the car with a shotgun, killed my friend as he shielded his son with his own body. I Believe in the right to bear arms. I will never be with out a firearm the rest of my life. I don't think open carry is a issue, as a kid I had a .22 on my side everyday. It is a constitutional right, second only to free speech, anyone wanna give up that right?


Man will spend life in mental institution for Meraux bus stop shooting

by The Times-Picayune Thursday October 30, 2008, 5:15 PM


A St. Bernard Parish judge found a man accused of killing a Meraux father during a shotgun-shooting spree at a school bus stop in 2003 not guilty by reason of insanity.
However, in his ruling Wednesday in state district court in Chalmette, Judge Manuel Ferndez also declared that Louis Schenck would continue to be a danger to himself and others and ordered Schenck incarcerated in the East Feliciana Forensic Facility for the remainder of his life, courts transcripts show.
Schenck, 51, was to stand trial on charges of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder stemming from the shooting in the Lexington Place subdivision in August 2003.
Danny Foto, 39, was killed by a shotgun blast. Foto's then 2-year-old son, who he was holding at the time, was critically wounded, as was another man, Steven Miller, whose foot had to be amputated after his ankle was shattered in the shooting.
At least twice, in November 2003 and June 2004, Schenck had been found unfit for trial at sanity hearings.
Schenck's attorney, Michael Fawer, said after the St. Bernard Parish District Attorney's office agreed not to seek the death penalty, Schenck waived a jury trial. Schenck also waived his right to seek release from incarceration in the mental hospital.
The District Attorney's office offered the police report from the shooting and the autopsy report as evidence. Fawer offered the results from the Sanity Commission.
"Every doctor who's seen him said he was nuts at the time of the crime," Fawer said.
The victims' families had been consulted and agreed to the ruling.
The St. Bernard Sheriff's Office said Schenck fired three blasts with a 12-gauge shotgun at the bus stop the morning of Aug. 19, 2003 after an argument with his parents, who lived next door to Foto. Someone at the bus stop had also yelled at him to slow down as he sped to his parents home, investigators said.
 
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though I understand what you are saying I don't think the reverse is true. the point is not whether he is in a day care place or a hospital or a church or what have you.
the point he is making is that the right to do so is there and does that mean some common sense should be avoided, no, but this post is about a fellow making a statement that had to be made.
as a lawman for 32 years I ran into people with guns all the time. in the peoples republic of NJ the only ones who get a permit to carry a concealed weapon are those politically connected ones, the rich and well to do, sort of like what the Statists in the democratic party want the whole country to be.
I would run into regular people frequently who stuck a pistol in their pocket for protection when they were in risky areas, or they had to carry money for their buisiness or were on the road a lot.
I would check them out and I would send them on their way. If the powers to be realized I and many other cops did that we would be charged and terminated.
The point is someone is standing up and making a statement. good for him. actually good for all of us.
Do I want to see a situation in which people are all walking around with guns slung over their shoulder, no, do I think there may be times when it is needed, ABSO****INLUTLEY. and will I defend the right of every American to do it? see above
 
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