Imagine how traumatizing it’d be for a child to survive a school shooting (or for the parent of a child who didn’t) — only to go to Target and see this. pic.twitter.com/OHlGZzN546
In Australia (Port Arthur), UK (Dunblane), New Zealand (Christchurch) immediate bipartisan action was taken. To date, there have been no repeats. In the USA …
We don’t have a “gun culture” here. So much so that I felt quite comfortable telling a security guard I was refusing to serve him unless he returned to his car and locked his weapon away. We had a temporary standoff while he argued he needed to be armed as he was “moving money” (so why was he shopping?) and I argued that if he felt he needed a gun for “protection” then I feared for the safety of myself, my staff, and other customers. Just who was going to attack him in a Newsagency?
One thing I miss after returning from living in New Zealand is the friendly face of short sleeved unarmed police officers on patrol. And the distinct lack of gun crime.
Yeah, that I envy. It sure would be lovely if instead of too few (often bad) LEOs plus mountains of guns we had lots of effective peace officers and no guns at all.
In his second tweet, LakotaMan1 asks “My international followers are asking why we Americans needs guns to do our shopping and for the first time […]” I am confident this family would respond to that by saying, probably loudly, that they have the right to carry them, so, they carry. They have the right to go lots of things, which they aren’t bothering to do. They could be carrying knives, or power drills, or flags, or flowers, but they don’t bother. They are making a point to carry guns and only guns.
I wonder if they would be able to articulate a reason beyond that. I can imagine a couple: we carry in case shooting breaks out wherever we happen to be. But if there is a gunman bent on shooting that location up, wouldn’t he simply shoot their family first? Or maybe they constantly feel unsafe. Doesn’t that imply they are less brave than the others that don’t arm themselves? I think after some back and forth, the only reason left to them is that they want guns because guns, dammit.
Those guns look like plastic toys to me, but a lot of them do nowadays. Anyway, I was wondering if it was legal to carry into a Target store and found this >> https://corporate.target.com/article/2014/07/target-firearms-policy So it’s possible that those guns are real. :(
I have visited America for short stays, but if If I lived there, I would probably open-carry. (I am a trained soldier.) My choice of open-carry weapon would be a no-muckin’-round bazooka. Good for sorting out any supermarket, playschool or other situation, and arguably covered by Amendment #2, as it falls into the category of arms; ‘right to bear.’.
And I am sure the NRA lawyers would back me up. Otherwise NRA members and gun enthusiasts would be confined to flintlocks, and probably to single-barrel models at that.
For example, down there in Texas, it is legal to buy and carry a semi-automatic assault rifle without a license.
It is not, however, legal to carry a knife with a six inch blade. That could get you a fine. Gun up all you want, but you better be in the kitchen if you have a knife.
In my state, anyone can get a license to carry a handgun. It is not ever legal, however, to carry a slingshot. You could see six months in prison for carrying a slingshot.
C’mon, she’s not wearing a vest, clearly no I’ll intent features here…
Is the lady on the right strapped too?
In Australia (Port Arthur), UK (Dunblane), New Zealand (Christchurch) immediate bipartisan action was taken. To date, there have been no repeats. In the USA …
We don’t have a “gun culture” here. So much so that I felt quite comfortable telling a security guard I was refusing to serve him unless he returned to his car and locked his weapon away. We had a temporary standoff while he argued he needed to be armed as he was “moving money” (so why was he shopping?) and I argued that if he felt he needed a gun for “protection” then I feared for the safety of myself, my staff, and other customers. Just who was going to attack him in a Newsagency?
One thing I miss after returning from living in New Zealand is the friendly face of short sleeved unarmed police officers on patrol. And the distinct lack of gun crime.
Yeah, that I envy. It sure would be lovely if instead of too few (often bad) LEOs plus mountains of guns we had lots of effective peace officers and no guns at all.
In his second tweet, LakotaMan1 asks “My international followers are asking why we Americans needs guns to do our shopping and for the first time […]” I am confident this family would respond to that by saying, probably loudly, that they have the right to carry them, so, they carry. They have the right to go lots of things, which they aren’t bothering to do. They could be carrying knives, or power drills, or flags, or flowers, but they don’t bother. They are making a point to carry guns and only guns.
I wonder if they would be able to articulate a reason beyond that. I can imagine a couple: we carry in case shooting breaks out wherever we happen to be. But if there is a gunman bent on shooting that location up, wouldn’t he simply shoot their family first? Or maybe they constantly feel unsafe. Doesn’t that imply they are less brave than the others that don’t arm themselves? I think after some back and forth, the only reason left to them is that they want guns because guns, dammit.
Those guns look like plastic toys to me, but a lot of them do nowadays. Anyway, I was wondering if it was legal to carry into a Target store and found this >> https://corporate.target.com/article/2014/07/target-firearms-policy So it’s possible that those guns are real. :(
I have visited America for short stays, but if If I lived there, I would probably open-carry. (I am a trained soldier.) My choice of open-carry weapon would be a no-muckin’-round bazooka. Good for sorting out any supermarket, playschool or other situation, and arguably covered by Amendment #2, as it falls into the category of arms; ‘right to bear.’.
And I am sure the NRA lawyers would back me up. Otherwise NRA members and gun enthusiasts would be confined to flintlocks, and probably to single-barrel models at that.
The peculiarities of American arms laws are many.
For example, down there in Texas, it is legal to buy and carry a semi-automatic assault rifle without a license.
It is not, however, legal to carry a knife with a six inch blade. That could get you a fine. Gun up all you want, but you better be in the kitchen if you have a knife.
In my state, anyone can get a license to carry a handgun. It is not ever legal, however, to carry a slingshot. You could see six months in prison for carrying a slingshot.
That’s odd, Papito, because even though slingshots are not in the Constitution, they’re in the BIble. This has to be an oversight.