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Moostache

(9,895 posts)
4. If more gay men and lesbian women and trans individuals were open carry...
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 11:35 AM
Sep 2019

the laws would be changed in a New York Minute...if it were minorities, the laws would be changed via time travel!

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)
5. IIRC, some of the original laws restricting open carry in modern times...
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 11:40 AM
Sep 2019

happened after the Black Panthers started showing up at black events packing weapons in protection mode to ward off the KKK types.

Funy how times have changed, right?

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
6. Yeah...I have seen the photos of open carry asshats packing AR-15's at an ice cream shop...
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 11:44 AM
Sep 2019

If a black man, even one LEGALLY authorized to carry did that, he would be shot by officers responding to 'suspicious armed man' call...

This country lost its soul at Sandy Hook and the rotting carcass is really hideous now...

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
11. It was a white soul.
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 01:55 PM
Sep 2019

That's why so many are running scared these days.

The times, they are a changing and many white folk will die before they accept it.

Please hurry!

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. Better yet, if that gay couple is packing and demands a goddamn
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 11:47 AM
Sep 2019

wedding cake, pronto? Who wins that argument?

dchill

(38,489 posts)
8. A white, gun-toting 30-something male is...
Sun Sep 1, 2019, 01:34 PM
Sep 2019

...for all intents and purposes, holy. Thou shalt not infringe upon his right to murder you. Thus saith Texas.

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