The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: ericire12 on November 18, 2009, 01:32:10 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxP9yaEcNm0
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'Please make ignorant members of the public feel better about their ignorance.'
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yeah, OCing in the bay area... the cops are not going to stop you... ::)
IMO this guy was looking for a confrontation.
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What gave it away TAB? The camera?
Brilliant observation...
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A right unexcersized is a right denied.
(Spell check can't handle that one )
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A right unexcersized is a right denied.
(Spell check can't handle that one )
We get the meaning. Besides, you're in good company. ;D
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Why would Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat...
(That is the sound of folks losing an argument).
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here is an interview that he did recently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYWz7BEEg1k
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Um, ok.
So you can open carry as long as the gun's empty? ???
I watched the vid up to the point where the cop started suggesting to the gun owner to let anyone who "Freaks out" that the gun is unloaded. (I figured it was gonna go downhill from there.)
Up to that point both side seemed professional and polite to each other.
Both were able to speak without interruptions. The cop wasn't hostile in performing his duties and the gun owner wasn't defiant in reaction.
If the gun owner had said, "Sure, sure." to the cops advise, even if he didn't mean it, that'd be the end of it and everyone would be on their merry. (From the replies under the vid; it doesn't seem like that happened.)
Anyone that open carries should expect a cop to stop them and ask questions. Cops are supposed to check out things that are out of the ordinary and, right now, open carry on public streets in urban and suburban areas is out of the ordinary. Plus most plocie officers have a quota of people they are supposed to talk to in a month, just like they have a ticket quota, so a person walking around with an open carry is a great excuse for the cop to walk over and say hi.
Hell, the cop might actually love the idea of you open carrying and just wants to admire your side arm.
As long as the cop doesn't act beliggerant and Gestapoesque, it's all good. It is another opportunity to share the positive points of open carry and the exercising of our second amendment rights.
Now the thing that really concerns me on the vid was the part were the cop had to ask the owner how to decock the fire arm and then you hear a sound of a dry fire! :o A cop should have the skill and knowledge to decock any firearm that has an exposed hammer without dry firing it. ::)
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Things have changed in CA in the last thirty years. Granted, I was in the Eureka/Fortuna northern part of the state but back then, we could go anywhere, anytime with a firearm on our hip. Pretty regular stuff, no one would give you a second look. I never considered carrying concealed, don't even know if there was any laws on the books at the time requiring it.
Kind of silly though, might as well carry a rock.
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Pretty stupid to carry an unloaded gun openly. ::) Thats a right I can live without.
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Pretty stupid to carry an unloaded gun openly. ::) Thats a right I can live without.
2How, you miss the point, they have already lost the right to carry a LOADED gun.
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2How, you miss the point, they have already lost the right to carry a LOADED gun.
they can carry loaded concealed.
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Look up their laws. TAB had to move to a different County to get a permit. When I lived in the Bay Area, (where this report is from ) getting a permit was easy, just show what a liberal would call a legitimate need and pay the Sheriff $3,000.
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New name for CA..
"Cali-force-a-ban"
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Since my divorce I generaly go with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication"
Having a woman judge I know I certainly got Californicated. :o
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Since my divorce I generaly go with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Californication"
Having a woman judge I know I certainly got Californicated. :o
If she didn't kiss you when she was done, it's called "rape"!
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B!tch didn't even shake my hand.
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Um, ok.
So you can open carry as long as the gun's empty? ???
I watched the vid up to the point where the cop started suggesting to the gun owner to let anyone who "Freaks out" that the gun is unloaded. (I figured it was gonna go downhill from there.)
Up to that point both side seemed professional and polite to each other.
Both were able to speak without interruptions. The cop wasn't hostile in performing his duties and the gun owner wasn't defiant in reaction.
If the gun owner had said, "Sure, sure." to the cops advise, even if he didn't mean it, that'd be the end of it and everyone would be on their merry. (From the replies under the vid; it doesn't seem like that happened.)
Anyone that open carries should expect a cop to stop them and ask questions. Cops are supposed to check out things that are out of the ordinary and, right now, open carry on public streets in urban and suburban areas is out of the ordinary. Plus most plocie officers have a quota of people they are supposed to talk to in a month, just like they have a ticket quota, so a person walking around with an open carry is a great excuse for the cop to walk over and say hi.
Hell, the cop might actually love the idea of you open carrying and just wants to admire your side arm.
As long as the cop doesn't act beliggerant and Gestapoesque, it's all good. It is another opportunity to share the positive points of open carry and the exercising of our second amendment rights.
Now the thing that really concerns me on the vid was the part were the cop had to ask the owner how to decock the fire arm and then you hear a sound of a dry fire! :o A cop should have the skill and knowledge to decock any firearm that has an exposed hammer without dry firing it. ::)
You might ask Haz about the competency of some LEO's in handling firearms. I'm not sure if he got the hole in his ceiling fixed yet, or not.
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You might ask Haz about the competency of some LEO's in handling firearms. I'm not sure if he got the hole in his ceiling fixed yet, or not.
Was that LEO old enough to have an adult beverage????
Didn't seem to hand it back to him UN-Cocked, and than fiddled with it after it was back in the owners holster.
Perhaps the owner should have asked if the LEO would drop the hammer please...before re-holstering.
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That's what happens when LEOs only get trained on the idiot proof Glock. If these guys where actually competent to handle firearms in the first place they would know how to operate the safety on one of the most popular firearms on the market. And by popular I am only referring to how many are in circulation. But if I was a cop in the "people's republic of" California I would probably be too afraid to go near a gun because of how "dangerous" they are and how many people "they" kill.
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I seem to recall a DEA agent shooting himself in the foot some time back on youtube with a safe action pistol of a perfect variety.
Herein lies the crux of it, I personally have handled about thirty different types of handguns and probably as many long guns in my 52 years. That freckle faced LEO may have only handled the issued sidearm he had holstered and HE IS MORE QUALIFIED to carry a gun than I would be on the streets of Califorceaban!
I get the reason of "use or lose" the rights but don't expect the LEO to have any more of a clue about how to safe a weapon...
People of CA, take a moment and consider leaving the state. Hell, even MA is better than you are and WE SUCK!
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People of CA, take a moment and consider leaving the state. Hell, even MA is better than you are and WE SUCK!
Having lived in both MA and CA................... I'll still take CA over MA.
but only for the weather!
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+10 on the weather. I'd like to have seen it before the people got there ;D