Open Carry police encounter

[Aguila Blanca]

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.

The young man may have been exercising a right, but he was doing so with the obvious intention of generating a confrontation with the police. He was going out of his way to provoke the officer, starting at the beginning of the video when he asked the officer, "Don't you want to park your car here so you can block traffic?"

Rights or not -- the kid is an idiot.

 

[zukiphile]

Rights or not -- the kid is an idiot.

Gratuitous rudeness to a PO is hardly ever a good idea.

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.

None of those differences bear on the comparison, which is to undertaking an action that may seem unduly confrontational. The similarity, the purpose for which the comparison is offered, is that each has a right he exercises for the purpose of establishing that he has it.

Like sitting at a lunch counter or not ["not" should be deleted] sitting toward the front of the bus, carrying openly may seem unduly confrontational.

In each instance, a person undertakes a confrontational act, one that doesn't make social comfort the highest priority.

For the purpose offered, the comparison is accurate. That you assess the merits of the actors causes differently should not lead you to believe you've been insulted.