Chuckusaret
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To each his own on open carry, I don't care to. The young man is not an idiot as some have stated, he was exercising his rights just as I would have.
There most certainly is a "switch," which is a coloquial term for lever.
In a semi-automatic version of the MP-5 the "switch" moves through two positions -- Safe and Fire.
MLeake said:I am not a fan of deliberate setups such as this seemed to have been.
OTOH, some of the comments from supposed LEOs below the article linked in the OP were downright disturbing. For example, Nork should only have approached once other officers were set up in overwatch, with weapons covering the open carrier?
So I read comments like that, and I can't help but think some of these YouTube showboats have a point...
Manta49 said:Their is exercising your rights and having a bit of common sense.
Manta49 said:You find it strange that some people might be alarmed seeing someone walking down the street carrying a mp5.
Manta49 said:If you have the right to conceal a firearm why would you carry it openly.
Manta49 said:They were doing it deliberately to provoke a reaction ...
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Originally Posted by Manta49
Their is exercising your rights and having a bit of common sense.
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?
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.
Yes, yes he was, but he seems to have been exercising those rights in a very idiotic manner by searching for confrontation and then trying to incite it with some of his statements.
Please spare us the Rosa Parks comparisons. They're inaccurate and insulting. There's a big difference between being denied basic rights because of how I was born and getting mildly hassled because I might happen to make an unwise decision.Like sitting at a lunch counter or not sitting toward the front of the bus, carrying openly may seem unduly confrontational.