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General Categories => Newsworthy => Topic started by: Chuck Matson on September 11, 2013, 04:20:29 PM
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http://www.knopnews2.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=8740 (http://www.knopnews2.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=8740)
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I don't see the controversy ?
Sure, folks reacted a bit strongly but at the end of the day it looked like no big deal ?
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When people get "uncomfortable" with other people expressing their Constitutional Rights we have serious education problems to overcome.
So, how far do we let this lowest common denominator of "un-comfortableness" go? Some people are extremely fearful and squeamish. It doesn't take much to make them "uncomfortable". If they get "uncomfortable" when you exercise your 1st amendment rights of freedom of religion or of speech do we stifle that right? It's nothing more than another flavor of "political correctness" run amok.
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Idiot.
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Idiot.
I concur.
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Lots of activities are constitutionally protected, but still pretty stupid to do.
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The guy is a moron and gives open carry/2A advocates a bad name. To arm oneself in that fashion, near a school, is asinine. A pistol on a belt draws a whole lot less unwanted attention than a "tacticool" shotgun and a bandolier of shells slung "Rambo" style does...and you still would be exercising your 2A rights. The "I'm a badass, don't I look cool" gloves don't help.
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Having seen a picture of the individual in question, I suspect that the residents were as uncomfortable with the individual, if not more so, as they were with the firearm.
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Having seen a picture of the individual in question, I suspect that the residents were as uncomfortable with the individual, if not more so, as they were with the firearm.
I have no idea what you mean! In this picture from his Facebook profile he appears to be a paragon of the best practices in both firearms handling and public relations (second from left):
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/644562_338199529610012_41816069_n.jpg)
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And he has bad taste in beer, to boot.
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Is that a Nebraska football helmet on the shelf behind them?
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Taken in a trailer no less...
Greg58
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unless the guy on the right in the blue has a 7 foot arm, something is wrong with this pic. One too many right arms.
Photoshop??
66bigblock
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unless the guy on the right in the blue has a 7 foot arm, something is wrong with this pic. One too many right arms.
Photoshop??
66bigblock
No. For ease of description, if we label them from left to right as Idiot #1 through Idiot #6, Idiot #5 has his right arm (holding bottle) around Idiot #3.
Fly
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(http://www.knopnews2.com/media/k2/items/cache/1f46b32b47fa5dd34034dc69815c14ff_M.jpg)
Having this firepower to walk into purchase convenience store items, is asking for trouble. Is this mentality the failure of parents, schools, churches, or just who???, I do not know.
I say if this guy is this aggressive, place him on a plane and let him wander around in Afghanistan serving. Put him to work.
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A favorite Tee Shirt is:
If you mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park!
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/644562_338199529610012_41816069_n.jpg)
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In the original photo, what hat is he wearing?
Google images says it looks like a flag of Kurdistan?
Wierd bunch of dudes fo sho.
66bigblock
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It's really hard to tell from the photo, lots of people think Iraq, it's a red, white and black striped with Arabic words in green in the white stripe. The bottom stripe could be black with the flag having a green boarder, you just can not tell from the photo.
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Tubby Jones standing there in the middle with the hat cocked to the side standing in front of the Confederate Flag seems a bit confused.
All of them are F'n idiots.
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This is the Kurdish flag:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Flag_of_Kurdistan.png)
I would say either Iraq or Syria.
Iraq (as of 2008):
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/220px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png)
Syria (Assad Regime):
(http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/world-countries-flags/syria-flag.gif)
The newest version of the Iraqi flag was distributed in large volumes, in various sizes and media, beginning in mid-2008, using your tax dollars. This was done in order to facilitate a "National Pride" campaign that was synchronized with the standing up of pro-U.S. militia organizations (funded, including their salaries, by your tax dollars) known as the "Sons of Iraq," in many rural areas(especially border areas where IP and IA forces were lacking) in order to prevent the influence and infiltration of Iranian JAM agents and deny AQI a safehaven.
Anywho, these large quantities of hats, shirts, flags, etc were overstocked. I still have a few, including a hat that looks just like that one.
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Ok so he looks a bit unconventional......But so what? This is America. It's suppose to be a free country right?. Who are we to judge? He wasn't hurting anybody he was simply exercising his rights. Glad the police didn't make an arrest so kudos to them for respecting the right.
As far as for the school going on lockdown: That was an action they took based on perception and not reality. Would locking the place down have really made them safer? Or would they still be the same sitting ducks they were before they locked the place down? Did the locked doors stop Adam Lanza in the Newtown massacre?
Until school officials and politicians use their brains and decide to arm themselves there will continue to be no hope for the clueless. Sad but true.
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If someone is walking down the street in my neighborhood like that, who I don't know, I'm calling the cops too. I wouldn't bat an eye at a holstered pistol or a long gun slung over the shoulder, but a tacticool get up like that (and I have tacticool toys too) is just asking for extra attention.
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Yes, he was within his rights, but here is my problem...
As much as it sucks, we 2A supporters are under considerable scrutiny. We can't afford to be seen as "nuts". As distasteful as this may seem, a majority of us must look like average, reasonable people to blend in with the others. Once the non-gun folk get to know us, we can expose our beliefs in the 2A and that will make those people realize we are not all on the fringe.
Unfortunately, only those radicals that go to an extreme, such as the guy in this story, get their name/picture in the media. This type of exposure sets all of us back because even a majority of us gun folk consider this extreme and unnecessary.
My other problem, is the facebook photo that he posted. Guns, alcohol, and the confederate flag in a trailer. How does that make the rest of us look? Staged photo or not. Unloaded guns or not. IMHO you do NOT do that. Never. Period. It gives me the eebie jeebies to see guns pointed at people in a photo such as this.
So I'm not just looking at the news story, I'm trying to absorb the whole picture and what we have now doesn't look good.
Fly
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The guy is supposedly from kearney . One of many problems I have with this nitwit is, why he doesn't go do this crap in his own town and quit acting like a idiot in theirs ? I'd call the police on the jerk also.
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I agree with OnTheFly on this one. Although he is within his legal rights to carry the weapon, it doesn't mean he should do so. I have the legal right to do many things, like be naked in my house with the blinds ope, but out of respect for my neighbors I don't.
Well, that and they would all be laughing so hard at the sight.
Basically just because you can doesn't mean you should.
"Hmm, this speedometer goes up to 150..."