Our enemies are like pedophiles who wonder why we don’t trust them with our children, take a look at this column by Alan Talaga: Madland: Open carry gun advocates play the victim
A few years back, some men went into a Culver’s on the east side of Madison with holstered guns plainly visible to the patrons around them, a stance known as open carry. Being dinner time at Culver’s, the place was naturally filled with old people. Those old people got scared, and called the cops, who went ahead and arrested the men. These men then sued the city and got $10,000 of taxpayer money.
Those guys were jerks. They were within their rights. They were still jerks.
Source: http://www.thedailypage.com/madland/article.php?article=42035
We’re the jerks? We’re not the ones who overreacted, called the police, then got arrested for exercising a constitutional right.
Now gun enthusiasts are feeling victimized thanks to the first-person tale related in an op-ed published by the Wausau Daily Herald. In it, an Iraq War veteran named Dereck Simonsmeier recalls his experience in getting kicked out of a Pick ‘n Save in Weston (basically it’s Wausau’s Middleton) for open carrying a gun in a side holster.
This isn’t like the Culver’s incident, as Simonsmeier wasn’t arrested. Since it was the manager who kicked him out of the store, his rights weren’t violated. A private business is deciding who it wants in the store, and getting booted for carrying a gun has nothing to do with illegal discrimination. Nevertheless, Simonsmeier is still playing the persecution card.
His rights weren’t violated? Sure they were, and while businesses are free to kick people out for behavior, the 2nd Amendment is an issue of identity for many of us.
Imagine if a bunch of people got together and started singing songs in the middle of a store. Management could kick them out, and it would not be a violation of their First Amendment rights.
That’s because such an act would be disruptive. Carrying a gun in your holster is not disruptive, cops carry guns in their holsters all the time as well, are you going to kick them out? Good luck.
These men are within their rights to carry guns around. But is it the society we really want to live in? Are we afraid of the people around us so much that the only way we feel we can trust them is if we have the ability to shoot and kill them at a moment’s notice? The Second Amendment is an important part of the Bill of Rights, but it’s not like the government is going to take away your gun if you leave it at home.
It’s the society the founding fathers gave us, or to be more accurate, the INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS they gave us. Are we afraid? No, I’m not afraid, I’m secure. I would be afraid if I didn’t have a gun, but since I have a gun I fear nothing. As for the government not taking away our guns, well, if a simple store manager can kick out an Iraq War Veteran for wearing a gun, I’m sure Big Government can come after my guns as well.
I’m also sure Alan Talaga would be perfectly happy if Uncle Obama abolished the 2nd Amendment, your anti-gun bias is quite obvious even if you try to disguise it occasionally.
