I don't OPEN CARRY or own a firearm. But if I legally want to eat an icecream in public, I will exercise my right to do so...
In many states, a citizen under has the right to open carry a firearm. Some don't allow it without a permit, but it is a legal activity that gets people calling 911 when they see someone do it.
I like chocolate ice cream. Eating a chocolate ice cream cone in public is also a legal activity.
There could be people that will get alarmed when they see someone eating a chocolate ice cream cone in public. Even if it is a legal activity and a constitutional protected right.
Really? Come on..
Maybe. You don't know..
If the police show up, and explain to me, that I was eating a chocolate ice cream cone, and they were getting calls, so they had to attend the situation and identify me... That would be a waste of police resources.
Now, I admit, it is not everyday that you see someone walking down the street eating a chocolate ice cream cone, and I understand how certain people can be alarmed by that..
So what should happen?
Should we ban ice cream cones? Should we make a city ordinance against ice cream?
Should any legal carrying of an ice cream be subject to police interview and detainment?
Whoa Whoa Whoa! Ice cream and carrying a firearm aren't the same!! Some might say.
Are they both legal? YES
Are they both constitutionally protected rights? YES
Well if someone is responsibly open carrying....
OR...
If someone is responsibly eating a chocolate ice cream cone on the side walk...
I do not see any difference.
It is obvious that we're a fear-based society, and it has gotten to the point, that people call 911 when someone is doing something legal these days. It's gone too far..
What it translates to.. if you see something not normal or is politically correct, call 911 and report the person.
That's sad. It's even worse that there is no repercussions for being stupid.
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I'm for the 2nd amendment to, but you can't blame people to be scared when they see somebody armed (especially in these days), with an icecream you can't harm anyone, with a gun yes. So it's natural that people could be scared and call the police, no one knows what you want to do with a gun.
I could stick my ice cream in someone's eye, with full force. They should be scared and call the police. No one knows if I want to eat that ice cream, or pop someone's eye out with it either.
If I take the pointy end of my ice cream cone and jam it in your eye... that should cause someone to be scared and call the police too.
90% of the open carry people are simply demonstrating that they have the legal right to carry a firearm, and we shouldn't be scared since they are exhibiting non-threatening behavior.
90% of ice cream people are simply interested in eating their ice cream too. But if you test freaks, there is 10% of them that can prove that a pointed cone can be quite harmful. :)
Or a rock, or a hammer, or a 2 by 4. If you wanna hurt someone, or a group of people, use a crockpot, or a vehicle, or you know... just about anything. If you have time to call the cops because you saw someone with a gun. By the time they got there, if that person was intending to do harm with said weapon, they would have already done it, not to mention you just wasted an officer's time by calling the police when they could have been doing something else productive.
I love this comment. Exactly. :)
:D I try, I try.
Hate will breed evil intentions, hateful people will be evil, the weapon they use does not give them the power they hold in their heart, but it is the hate they hold onto in their mind.
I agree with you, people are to soft on their kids these days so people grow up thinking because they are offended they have the right to disrupt someone else's life style.
Sorry, my life, my choices, your life, you have the right to leave.
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