Update: Carrying gun(s) around schools didn't work out quite as man hoped

[fried eggs]

Update to the story posted a few days ago: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3711308

The man said he was making a point about gun rights, offering condolences to victims of gun violence and trying to demonstrate that gun owners aren't by and large evil people. It's not the first time he's open-carried around the schools, packing either a shotgun or handgun.

On Thursday, he was carrying both.

It turns out, his mother is a teacher at Century High. He said she doesn't know it was him carrying the gun, and that she'll likely be upset when she finds out.

Still, although it was inadvertent, he said he thinks he might have made Hillsboro schools safer.

Video at link: http://www.katu.com/news/local/Carrying-a-gun-around-schools-didnt-work-out-quite-as-man-hoped-224634911.html

Unbelievable.

[Hoyt]

1. Yep, most gun toters think they make other people safer. What a crock.

Or, at least they try to make that argument to cover up for their lack of decency in a civilized society.

Last think I want are Zimmerman wannabees trying to make us safer.

[bunnies]

2. What a dickhead.

He takes those guns with him because it "makes him feel safe". To hell with the kids you're horrifying eh, shit for brains?

[HockeyMom]

3. What I said to my gun toting husband of 40 years

I am an adult and have been for decades, and many years before I married you. As that adult, it is MY responsibility to take care of myself. You are under no duty or obligation to protect another adult person, thank you very much. It shocked him, but he eventually saw the logic and agreed.

[RetroLounge]

4. What an asshole

Call the cops and say you feel threatened.

Get his sorry ass arrested.

RL

[SCUBANOW]

6. Not in his area.

There is another thread over this subject, what he is doing is not against the law in his area.

[Hoyt]

7. It is an affront to society and decent people. It's immoral.

Ok, don't call police if that is how you feel, but at least call him an ignorant, immature fool, or whatever.

[etherealtruth]

8. terrorizing a school is how I would characterize it

A school needing to "lock-down" because of a man with a gun strutting around the periphery of the property ... can you imagine (acknowledging very recent history) how the staff and students felt ... I would imagine terrified and terrorized

[oneshooter]

9. He is required by law to stay 100 yards from school property.

He used a GPS to plot out a course that kept him 110 yards away.

[etherealtruth]

10. Is that not purposeful intimidation

why do this? Everyone in the US knows what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary .. why do something that would terrorize innocent people like this?

[Recursion]

12. He's trying to demonstrate that the mere presence of a gun shouldn't be a source of terror

He's doing it badly, but that's his purpose.

[etherealtruth]

13. It has had the opposite effect

I am not quite sure why he would assume that strutting around the periphery of a school would have any effect but the one it had....?

[Recursion]

14. I agree

I am not quite sure why he would assume that strutting around the periphery of a school would have any effect but the one it had

It's a tribal thing. Some people are viscerally uncomfortable in the presence of guns, others aren't. Neither "side" really addresses that disconnect.

[RetroLounge]

16. So he's an asshole on purpose?

Please, proceed.

RL

[Warren DeMontague]

15. And it's not against the law for me to call him a monumentally insensitive, stupid sack of shit.

Even the monumentally insensitive stupid sack of shit acknowledges that what he did- incidentally, sending 4 schools into lockdown- may not have been such a great idea.

[RetroLounge]

17. Still an asshole.

and a douchenozzle too.

RL

[jpak]

5. Walks like a douchebag, talks like a douchebag... etc.

yup

[Robb]

11. He won't stay anonymous long.

He's going to be quite the celeb in the gun enthusiast circles here in a bit, I expect.