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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 11:52 PM Apr 2013

Was In A Local Store In Westminster, Colorado Yesterday And This Gun Nut Was Openly Carrying A Gun

My wife saw it but I didn't. She said it was an old white guy with big frown.

I wonder who he thought he might be wanting to protect. Maybe he thought a robber was near by. We have a lot of gun nuts in Colorado who believe that they should be armed any where they go.

I do not believe the Second Amendment really gives you to the right to carry a fire arm everywhere you go. It's interpretation has been so twisted and distorted.

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Was In A Local Store In Westminster, Colorado Yesterday And This Gun Nut Was Openly Carrying A Gun (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Apr 2013 OP
Scared and angry....a Fox News watcher NightWatcher Apr 2013 #1
My Wife Said She Kept Watching Him And He Definitely Looked Disgruntled. TheMastersNemesis Apr 2013 #3
Dour old white guys are highly likely to have a gun nearby. Hoyt Apr 2013 #2
I've seen them open carry at the supermarket. bluedigger Apr 2013 #4
My FIL had a conceal/carry permit and was a gun nut. Laffy Kat Apr 2013 #5
2A only applies to governmental entities, not to private businesses nt msongs Apr 2013 #6
I Don't Think These Gun Nuts Care They Insist On Carrying Openly Everywhere TheMastersNemesis Apr 2013 #7
It's a sad state of affairs. BalancedGoat Apr 2013 #9
Really no different than a wand waver. Loudly Apr 2013 #8
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
3. My Wife Said She Kept Watching Him And He Definitely Looked Disgruntled.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:03 AM
Apr 2013

I am not sure what I would have done had I noticed it. But we have a lot of pissed old guys in Colorado who want to play sheriff or something. And we have a lot of RW students who want to carry on campus at our colleges.

If I were a professor I would not want to teach a person who wants to carry a gun all the time. If you gave the person a bad grade things could get dicey. The country definitely seems to be getting out of had.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. Dour old white guys are highly likely to have a gun nearby.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:02 AM
Apr 2013

Public toting is over the line in my opinion, not that it means much. Too many guns is also an issue.

Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
5. My FIL had a conceal/carry permit and was a gun nut.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 12:21 AM
Apr 2013

He was also bipolar and was suffering from dementia. His wife put the guns in the safe and had the locksmith change the lock, but my FIL would ask for his guns whenever he was angry at someone. This was in Littleton, CO. I shutter to think what could have happened. Colorado is terrible with guns. I'm close to Westminster and see old white guys carrying guns ALL OF THE TIME.

BalancedGoat

(261 posts)
9. It's a sad state of affairs.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 02:35 AM
Apr 2013

Within the past two years both jobs I work at have posted signs explicitly prohibiting the possession of firearms on the premises.

Perhaps it's a liability thing. But I can't help but thinking that we've somehow arrived at a point where it's presumed that you're allowed to carry a gun unless told otherwise.

If a business owner wants to allow their customers to carry a gun on them, whatever. It's on them. Let them post a sign that says "we welcome open carry" or something like that. The idea that business owners feel the need to post signs explicitly disallowing weapons on their property is just wrong to me. THAT should be to standard assumption. It's all ass backwards to me, and it's a sad reflection of what we've come to.

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