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In reply to the discussion: Wal-Mart wants Texas workers to verify open-carry gun permits [View all]Sanity Claws
(22,216 posts)28. Your post assumes that only people with licenses will open carry
That's not accurate.
Your post also assumes that there must be logical explanations for a criminal's actions. Take a look at the militia occupying the bird sanctuary in Oregon. They are openly defying the law, i.e. being criminals. Under their mindset, they are proving a point. It is not a rational point but, in their minds, it is a point. Persons who carry openly without a license have the same kind of mindset, attempting to make the same kind of point.
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He should have been arrested immediately and his guns consiscated for life. (nt)
stone space
Jan 2016
#19
Laughing at the murder of an Iowan by an Open Carry Ammosexual is disgusting.
stone space
Jan 2016
#30
If this Open Carry Ammosexual had been arrested after terrorizing folks at Costco, ...
stone space
Jan 2016
#32
Been over a year, still waiting for that first open carry shoot out everyone predicted
DonP
Jan 2016
#11
Would you have felt better, or Hapham's victims been less dead, if he was carrying concealed?
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#44