Interesting Open Carry Reaction/Story from NH

Pretty hilarious, found it on www.opencarry.org.


vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qgl7K2CJkA

lmao @ "This never would have happened in Massachusetts!!"


Thought I would post up with the friendly responses to the concealed carry on bike thread. :smile:

 

People are such idiots. I half ass conceal when I carry and get some funny looks sometimes

 

JB and I personally both believe in and exercise our right to open carry. While you may get strange looks normally people do not behave so inappropriately.

The owner of a local gas station in St. Helens actually stopped JB once to talk to him about open carrying (he had his 1911 on his hip). He fully supports it as he is a CWP instructor, was just curious if he ever got in trouble.

 

F'n Massholes.

 

so eloquent drewl

 

I believe that only the police and military should be carrying guns in public. But that is just my opinion. I'm glad that if you were in my country you would be arrested for carrying a loaded gun in public. It would definately be unnerving to see regular citizens carrying openly. What you do in your country is your right, I'm just glad it's not in mine. That's just my opinion.

 

I feel a great sense of pitty for any one who fears their fellow citizens for openly arming themselves. After all, these citizens aren't attempting to hide anything- that's what criminals do, right up until they want to take something from you. Apparently in Canada, the criminals have already taken your sense of security- and replaced it with fear.

 

Fear is what causes people to pack in the first place. I have been all over the world and ended up in quite a few less than desirable and unstable places, identified as such by the US State Department. I've been through all of the State Department training and i've still rarely felt the need to carry a weapon. It is factually documented that a large percentage of people who carry weapons, either openly or concealed, end up having that weapon used against them when push comes to shove. It's your right to pack, if you feel the need to do so, then do what you have to do.

 

Carrying a gun is not only inspired by fear. In our country our rights are slowly being taken away, including the right to bear arms. While they cannot simply ban guns, politicians find backdoor ways to make them harder and harder to get (at least for honest people). Simply a right un-exorcised is a right lost.

What a coincidence that areas with the highest gun restrictions have higher crime rates.

 

Yeah, and we all know what just an absolute bastion of crime Canada is known for. People the world over are afraid to go there. Mass killings are nearly every day, people afraid to leave their homes, it really has just gone to hell in a hand basket up there. Maple syrup muggings at an all time high (OK, I made that one up) :tongue:

Unlike here where we have some of the highest rates of violent crime anywhere in the "civilized world", a higher percentage of our population in jail than nearly anywhere, civilized and third world, and we buy more than half the guns sold in the world.

 

I don't intend to enter into this gun/no gun discussion because everyone has their own views on the subject, and the are all very passionate about their views. But you mentioned people in jails. We here in Canada do not put a lot of people in jails. One of our former Supreme Court Justices here in BC, Wally Opal, studied and came to the conclusion that the US jails are proof that incarcerating people is not a deterrent to Crime. This same Supreme Court Justice is now our Attorney General of BC and he is crying the blues that the sitting judges are not handing our stiffer penalties.

While I agree that incarceration is a poor deterrent at best, at least when the bastard is in jail, he is not committing a crime against our society. So you guys down there do have this one right. Do the crime, throw the bastard in jail. And the day cannot come too soon where Canada follows your lead and elects judges. Maybe then they will start serving the public interest by handing out appropriate sentencing.

I have always amazed me that here, Defense attorneys, Prosecution Attorneys, and judges all go to the same schools of law, where they learn how to get their clients off. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this concept.


Randy's rant returns.:soapbox:

 

I thought it was common knowledge to all that it's just too damn cold in Canada to commit a crime. All one's energy is used up just trying to stay warm. (J/K)

 

Yeah but we get our damned cold from your Colorado Low Pressure systems. Go away! I shoveled the Drive twice today and it started to snow again.:smow: It will be Hot Buttered Rums on the menue today.:cheersaf:

 

My sincerest apologies for your Colorado inflicted plight! The nerve! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!

 

To the best of my knowledge, I have not suffered the loss of any of my personal rights, at least none that would require me to openly carry a handgun in retalitation for the loss of said rights. Could you do me a favor and clarify any specific rights that you have had strippped from you and what adverse effect the loss of those specific rights had on you personally? Was this loss of your personal rights somehow balanced out by openly carrying a sidearm? I would be interested to see what I have been so lucky as to have missed out on. Maybe I should be packin' a gun due to the loss of personal rights that I was not aware of.

I would also like to see the data concerning the higher crime rates where the stiffer gun regulations are enforced, I am very interested in these facts and their relative applicability, as I have not had the privilege of seeing them firsthand. Can you post this data for me? I would be interested to see it, and maybe I might learn something. Does this data have some correlation to an elevated crime rate in rural Oregon? Thanks for any data that you might provide.

 

Interesting. I grew up as a diplomat's kid in Cairo,Damascus, Bagdad, Pretoria and Curitiba. We always had security personel assigned to us, and sometimes armored vehicles. And yes, they were heavily armed. I'm sure you were protected in some way. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

I was not a diplomat and was not accustomed to such hospitality. Consider yourself respectfully corrected.

 

I don't have the data off hand, but I believe that cities that have the strictest gun laws, like DC, Detroit, NYC and New Orleans, have a high crime and murder rate, commited buy criminals with illegal guns. I believe legal gun owners are not responsible for the high crime statistics. Also these cities with very strict gun laws, prevent the law abiding citizen to protect themselves. And the criminal element knows that, taking advantage of the fact.