it is clear you are not in a serious mood.

most of them can’t hit the broad side of a barn with a bazooka either. There ain’t a lot of real “Dirty Harry” types out there. The world, or at least the more rural and civilized parts of the World, was probably a much better place when we didn’t have standing police forces even in small, poor, rural counties and communities. When you had a pretty much universally armed citizenry, the sheriff could just deputize a posse to help him enforce the law; no standing police force, not police unions, no multi-million dollar retirement schems, no tricked out cruisers and uniforms that make them look like combat infantrymen, etc.

I suppose you do need standing police forces in the degenerate cities full of helpless metrosexuals and women afraid of big scary black things. In the parts of the Country I like, you’d better pray to God that the cops find you before some outraged citizen does and that outraged citizen doesn’t have to warn you about your rights.

this is a ruling by the Supreme Court. It was cited by the judge who threw out a suit by the families of the Columbine massacre who sued the police for standing by while 13 innocents were slaughtered by madmen.

If you even think your family needs protecting, you had better do it your self. You have no assurance the police will do so.

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And I believe all laws “infringing” on “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” are a nullity. And anyone charged with the “crime” of protecting themselves with a firearm should be able to challenge the constitutionality of that law in front of a jury.

I feel much safer here in Arizona, where I can carry openly if I want (I don’t) and concealed if I want (I have a CCW, and I do). In L.A. I knew many people who carried concealed without a government permit — well, let me amend that — I knew a lot of people who led me to suspect that they carried without a government permit. We had an unspoken understanding not to quiz each other about such matters. Why did these people desire to carry concealed? Because in L.A., a dangerous place, only the police, the thugs and the rich people’s body guards carry guns — the law abiding are told they can’t. So, some of those who can’t get a CCW are willing to take their chances to be judged by 12 rather than carried by six.

I didn’t see the civilian guys carrying openly this morning. Had I, assuming they were not acting like yahoos, I would not have felt threatened. Indeed, the presence of firearms usually has a calming effect on people. You’ve probably heard the old saying, “An armed society is a polite society.” I have personally stopped a crime that was about to be committed by several punks by merely mentioning the existence of a nearby .357 Magnum. Firearm mentioned. Firearm reached for. Before firearm can be displayed, the five hooligans beat feat as fast as they could run.

I’ve been to lots of public events on city streets here in AZ where I’ve seen people carrying openly. Again, it always makes me feel safer, assuming they are not dressed like gangbangers, and I’ve never really seen that.

I also saw the uniformed policemen carrying openly. Made me feel safer. And I saw a lot of plainclothes cops who were carrying concealed, I assume. Made me feel safer.

Frankly, while I understand our president should always remain safe, I’ve grown tired of the trend started by Carter, then continued by Slick Willie and Her Thighness (”I visited 80 countries as First Lady!”), and now continuing with Teleprompter Boy and ‘Chelly, that our Commander-in-Chief seems to think it’s an appropriate use of the trappings of his office to constantly fly around our country and the world and basically get a free tour of the world for themselves and their entourage at our expense. Teleprompter boy chose to come to Arizona today. We’ve got open carry. And concealed carry. If he doesn’t like it (and he doesn’t), too bad. Stay home. I refuse to surrender my rights just because he wants to give a speech somewhere. I don’t leave my First Amendment, Fourth Amendment or Fifth Amendment rights at my door when I leave my home, nor should I have to leave my right to keep and bear arms, that the Second Amendment commands shall not be infringed, at my door.

I watched the two videos on YouTube I could find of a young black man with an AR-15 at the protest today. He wasn’t bothering anyone, near as I could tell. And he was nowhere near where Teleprompter Boy was entering and exiting the Convention Center. I commend him for dressing neatly and bravely expressing his view that he was simply exercising one of his rights. Our rights are muscles; they atrophy when they are not used. He chose to exercise his rights to keep and bear arms today, and, for him, his rights got stronger today. Would that more conservatives would exercise their rights to keep and bear arms more often and in greater numbers.

On the other hand, if the guy had dressed up in fatigues and started waving his AR-15 around like a madman while chanting something like “I’ve got a right to this and I dare you to take it,” then I’d agree that he was not using common sense. And creating an unnecessary, unhelpful picture of how our rights to keep and bear arms should be exercised and the kinds of people who tend to cherish those rights. But I saw nothing like that in the two video clips I saw. Just a nicely dressed, calm, thoughtful person who happened to be carrying a rifle.

Here in Arizona, that earns you a shrug and a “big whup.”

Assume, on the other hand, that Arizona had very strict laws regarding firearms. Severe penalties for carrying concealed. No open carry. I would not have felt nearly as safe today. Because if some deranged leftist wanted to kill as many “right wing extremists” as possible at this gathering this morning, he would have been able to cause a massacre. Can you say “fish in a barrel?” Very unlikely that scenario will play out in Arizona because of our laws — and, if it did, far more likely the guy would meet his maker before the police arrived and responded.

Thank you.

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just because it is a scary black gun; in my case it is a very tricked Mossberg 500 12 ga. I have a Mini-14 that is every bit as lethal as a legal AR-15 and uses the same ammunition. It, however, has a nice, warm, friendly wooden stock and looks like the innocuous “hunting rifle” the communists say they think is OK. I probably wouldn’t carry it openly right downtown, at least not during the summer tourist season or when the Legislature was in town, though I have seen people carry openly there. I would and have carried it and other weapons including my handguns both openly and concealled pretty much everywhere else around the area. I often have a couple on the rack in my truck, including the ugly black Mossy. There is ALWAYS one or more weapons on the boat. Nobody seems to notice except the Coast Guard always asks if there are weapons on board if they approach your boat.

weapon that simply looks scary because it looks like an M-4/M-16 miltary weapon. As I said elsewhere, my Ruger Mini-14 uses the same ammo, the same size magazines, and fires at roughly the same rate; as fast as I can pull the trigger and pay for the ammo. I keep my Mini in its original full wood stocked condition for the simple reason that it isn’t one of the scary black guns that freak out the bed wetters.

There’s lots of less menacing looking guns than an AR-15 that are far, far more lethal. The 5.62/.223 round was basically created to wound in combat and thus consume more of the enemies resources in having to deal with the wounded. It is combat effective because it is an automatic weapon, though it can also be used as a semi-auto, or fire three shot bursts. The AR-15 is a semi-auto version that can only be made into an auto with great skill and difficulty and which is illegal for most of us to own. In semi-auto, they really are just a very high velocity .22. If you really want to kill a bunch of people, or anything else, with a semi-auto, you need a minimum of a .30 caliber weapon with some real knockdown power.