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August 24, 2012, 12:46 PM | #26 | |
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August 24, 2012, 01:29 PM | #27 |
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Quote. How would you change the common sense (the sense of the community) of what behaviors are normal, not to be viewed with alarm and suspicion, without engaging in them.
You find it strange that some people might be alarmed seeing someone walking down the street carrying a mp5. If you have the right to conceal a firearm why would you carry it openly. They were doing it deliberately to provoke a reaction and were disappointed when the officer acted professionally. PS I don't think stunts like that do anything to help the open carry cause. |
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I agree with the general premise that an armed person should not cause alarm. However, there's a spectrum of what random people know about firearms. And I would suspect that most people who see a MP5 clone associates that image with a select fire weapon. There's a difference in cops being called on someone OC'ing a handgun, which they have no lawful reason to question, and in this case someone OC'ing something that they do have lawful reason(specifically in this case in OR) to stop the person.
OC activism definitely takes different flavors. I cannot categorically say that people who go looking for encounters with LEO are silly, but I would say that in most cases it brings attention to the cause in negative manner and does not serve the greater good. It's one thing to go about your business while OC'ing and have a recording device, it's another to go out specifically looking for an encounter. I would be very surprised if the person making the film didn't think that the general perception would be that he was carrying a select fire weapon, and chose that specific model to attract attention. I do regard situations with suspicion when I see LEO carrying something other than their pistols(whether it be rifle, shotgun or sub machine gun). Why? Because in most cases, they have them out for a reason, and that reason usually involves me not wanting to be in the area. |
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A lot of what say makes sense. I don't know how you change the the communities attitude to firearms. I don't think stunts like the one in the video help.
PS. Reminds me of a innocent happened to me 20 years ago in N Ireland. I was walking home after doing some shooting near my home i was carrying a air rifle with a telescopic sight on it. A army patrol pasted me in a jeep i heard the jeep stopping and the words stop or i will shoot. As you can imagine that stopped me in my track's the police were called and the mater cleared up. After that even tough i had the right to carry in the open when going shooting i thought putting it in a cover might make more sense. |
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August 24, 2012, 04:43 PM | #33 |
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And yet I know more than a handful of Texans who wouldn't think twice about openly carrying their hog-hunting rifles, which might well be ARs, AKs, or Mini-14 types. Your neighbors could have a whole bunch of legal problems, Zincwarrior, if they just decided to open up on them.
(My friends are pretty good shots, too, so your neighbors might never actually still be around to have legal problems, in such an instance.) Acting on incomplete information, and attacking somebody who hasn't broken a law, let alone provided a credible threat, is not smart. (Edit: My friends wouldn't be walking down a city street with such. They might well walk out to their vehicles in a suburban area, carrying them, though.) |
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first off- kudos to officer Nork for handling that situation the way he did. im big on gun rights but im glad that he stopped someone walkin down the road carryin that. (as long as he handled it the way he did). that could have been more then just some idiots tryin to educate officers in the constitution.
having said that. i am not for police stopping people just for open carrying. but a guy walkin down the street with what looks like an MP-5 should be stopped imo. stunts like this imho are bad for us pro gun/ pro constitutionalists. they make us seem cocky and extremists which will make the public scared of us and guns instead of curious and interested in firearms. I understand that alot of police officers need to learn the laws and the rights that us citizens have but there is a better way to do that then deliberately trying to stir up a confrontation. |
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In a perfect world it shouldnt matter if people are offended or not, a right is a right.. In reality it matters alot.... It will remain so until SCOTUS finally spells it all out as a civil right.
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The camo dressed guy who carried a Draco in a TN park comes to mind: He lost his concealed carry permit over that exciting episode. Good work officer Nork. |
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August 24, 2012, 06:25 PM | #37 |
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What impressed me was the difference in this officers approach than those of the California cops who do not know nor apparently care about whither or not a weapon is legal.
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The guy taking the video isn't an activist. He's a guy looking to score points with an audience by antagonizing law enforcement.
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August 24, 2012, 09:16 PM | #39 |
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I open carry almost exclusively...have for over 40 years. I have never been hasseled, I have talked to a couple officers while carrying...questions like, What is it?...Nice gun...hunting?...when are you going to join our gun club?...never been asked for my CPL or any other ID.
It is all in the manner in which you carry. Personally, I do not think the officer should have started this encounter. There was no reasonable reason to suspect that the guy was doing anything but looking for a confrontation. Why accomdate him? Those up to no good do not put their firearms out on display anyone (especially LE) to see...they hide them. That is the whole idea behind the concealed carry prohibitions. That it may be a crime? I don't think so. Just like you need a CPL to carry a loaded pistol in a vehicle here in WA. You may specifically carry (open or concealed with a CPL) in public transportation, but if the arm is loaded you do need a CPL. So now (this will never happen with me, there is no public transportaton in my county) let's say I am visiting Seattle and waiting for the Seattle City bus with my openly carried pistol. Is the possibility that pistol MAY be loaded (in which case I need a CPL) a reasonable reason to detain me and demand my CPL? and maybe inspect my weapon? I say no... |
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AWESOME rendition of PROPER police work... What a PRO!!! He sure makes many LEO's I have encountered look all the worse!!!
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