Re: Cool Cop v.s. Citizen Open Carry of MP5 Clone 22LR
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: victory</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JelloStorm</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't know guys. While I can agree that it's bad form, he really did nothing wrong.
I truly believe that LEO needs to be educated about open-carry laws.
NOW, on the same argument, I do understand the opponents view. If some homeboy is walking down my development with an AK-47 slung to his side Somalia-style, then yeah I would be a bit nervous. <span style="color: #FF0000">Racist much?</span>
This is a hard topic to pick sides on, as I don't think anyone can argue one way or the other (intelligently) without seeing the other side's point of view. </div></div>
I don't see how anyone could see this jerk offs point of view. He did what he did to cause a problem and start an argument with a cop with the hopes of getting him to infringe on his rights. He wasn't someone who was open carrying and was stopped, he went out with the point of getting stopped. He tried to remember as much as his pea sized brain could hold so he would have talking points on video.
I'm not a big fan of open carry, but if you want to do it, it is your right. Doing it just so you can try and catch someone messing up decision that is made pretty much on the spot is ridiculous. I don't know what your job is, but I am guessing it doesn't involve choices that can end your life if you make the wrong one. There are good cops and bad cops just like any job out there. Trying to contrive a scenario like this just so you can record it is dangerous and idiotic.
</div></div>
I'm not racist, but I do live in an area that is plagued by gang/drug violence so that was the best analogy I could come up with.
If I'm in Walmart and see some old guy packing a 1911 he's had for 40 years vs. some gangbanger / punk / trash carrying a gun... yeah you'd be nervous too.
I don't agree with the idiot's methods, but you have to admit that it does bring up a good talking point on a right that most of us have, yet few will exercise due to social consequences.
I 110% believe in open carry within reason, but "within reason" is subject to one's interpretation.