Open Carry Texas
Well, we have open carry in Texas and this is what we can look forward to. Warning: This video has foul language and abominable behavior toward police officers in Abilene, Texas. The scary part is that Open Carry Texas is proud of this video.
This is what our state legislature is so proud of.
The day that some damn fool can stand on the sidewalk in front of my house armed to the teeth screaming at police officers is the day I resign from Texas.
This guy is an obvious pussy that has to have a gun on his person to feel like a man. Sorry excuse for a human.
1“The day that some damn fool can stand on the sidewalk in front of my house armed to the teeth screaming at police officers is the day I resign from Texas.”
Too late.
2If they keep that kind of confrontational crap up, sooner or later bullets will fly. And that may cull the herd a bit, which would probably be a good thing. It’s like telling little kids not to do something — they will keep doing it until they get hurt. Like it’s the only way stupid people learn anything.
3I love Texas,and was very happy when I lived there. What the H@LL has happened to this once great State? I will go visit my son and my BFF who both live there. But,I could never live there again as long as these eejits are ruling the roost. What is wrong with people? Theses kinds of tools really are pushing for an armed revolution,aren’t they?
4If this guy really has a concealed carry permit, there is obviously no mental health requirement for getting one. He’s just what we all need, isn’t he: A pugnacious jerk with a humongous chip on his shoulder, not to mention a whole bunch of loaded firearms. It’s going to get really hot this summer wearing a bullet-proof vest every time I go to the supermarket!
5Well, if you want to avoid that sort of lunatic behavior, you should not move to Kansas.
6I look forward to the reaction the next time a black person yells “don’t gimme that crap” at a police officer.
7JJ.. I’m seriously… really…. really seriously… trying to decide between two possible future scenarios:
(1) Do I want whomever delivers my eulogy to have to include the words “innocent bystander” or “collateral damage”?.. or
(2) Do I just want to spend my remaining days… house bound?
These people scare the crap out of me.
8These two, or at least the one screaming at the officers, is looking for action for sure! I simply cannot understand why they need to carry their manhood outside of their clothes. It sure doesn’t look manly to me!
9“I’m on public property! What’s your problem?
OK, NOW I’m on public property!”
Three guys who think they know their rights, but don’t even know where they are, with loaded weapons. What could go wrong?
10I just wasted five and a half minutes of my life. I would have busted the sob’s ass for interference with official acts and hauled him to Mexico and handed him over to the police there to handle.
11As a Texas Concealed Carry License holder, I can categorically say that the people shown in the video are psychopaths, and should be restricted from owning guns of any type. They are the extreme fringe, the 1%’s of the gun owning public, and they scare us as much as they scare you. Sane people do not behave the way that they do.
12Many of the ‘open carry’ psychopaths carry rifles because they are legally banned from getting gun permits, either for mental or criminal records.
Worse than open carry is ‘stand your ground’.
I can’t wait to see how the cops react to groups of young black men armed to the teeth.
13Forget the tourists who won’t come here anymore AND their $$$$.
14Unfortunately the crazy is not limited to Texas. The nuts with guns crowd likes to travel. Admittedly they don’t show up in the numbers they boast, but really does it matter if 100 unhinged guns humpers show up or 10? Sooner or later some wag will toss a firecracker in their direction and there will be an answer to: “what could possibly go wrong?”
Speaking of their travel and all that free time the humpers seem to have, maybe we should look at the government cheese they’re consuming. Or, at least serve them their cheese in padded rooms.
15I can’t even watch it.
16We can use you in Florida. Some semblance of order is beginning to manifest. Send the invoice for moving to Goober rickscott. Bubba’s law lic will port.
17What Unbound says…
18I always wanna ask these ammosexuals if carrying around a gun like that makes their tiny little tallywhackers any bigger.
19I’m with Ralph & Mary: if these greasy pantloads would’ve been black, they’d be dead.
20@EPO
RE: “hauled him to Mexico and handed him over to the police there to handle.”
There is a police urban legend that I heard growing up around Hunt-Hopkins-Lamar counties that an unnamed Texas Ranger (or former Texas Ranger) had maybe taken criminals, those who just seemed not destined to serve their fair share of time for crimes committed but not provable, to Mexican jails, where they were left for many years. Scary story at 16. Not believable at 62. But …..
21That police officer should move to Baltimore. They could use him up there. What a professional. His only mistake was not cuffing this moron and dragging him in for a psych evaluation.
22Tranquilizer darts, blown from a long tube like some vets use. That’ll work. Then off to a rubber room and a psych eval.
23One of the many problems with carrying loaded guns around in public is that the people most likely to do it, and yell and scream about their right to do it, are the people that any sane person least wants to have loaded guns in public.
And yes, if this guy were black and carrying a gun in public and mouthing off and refusing to do what the cops said, he would have been dead inside of ten seconds. Or five.
I like someone’s suggestion that if you see anyone carrying a gun in public, assume they’re dangerous as hell, call 911, and let the authorities sort them out. When are we supposed to know they’re not another massacre waiting to happen– when they *don’t* start shooting?
24These doo shhhh bags must think they have equal standing with professional law enforcement officials. They clearly were creting a public nuisance and a threat to other citizens. Have the judge take their weapons away until they learn to obey law enforcement officers. There must be any number of trivial regulations to harass these tools with.
25I will only patronize businesses that display signs banning open carry on their premises. If enough consumers do this the business owners will get the message and Open Carry Texas (OCT) will start to fail.
26Good idea Angelo_Frank!
27I couldn’t watch the video. I already scream abuse at my computer and internet provider on a regular basis, and didn’t the situation to escalate.
Tonight when I entered Ft. Snelling National Cemetery (Minneapolis Minnesota), to visit the grave of my recently departed man, I noted the sign that said “No weapons permitted”, just inside the gate. Of course, a normal person would wonder why the hell such of sign would need to be posted in a cemetery, especially in this sane blue no carry state, and then I thought of TX. I could imagine those nut jobs, most if not all of them, who most likely never served, going crazy over it. And then there’s the enormous irony factor.
28Couldn’t watch all of it. Please tell me the video lies when it says the APD apologized and said they’ll get more training for their officers. IN is nuts but so far not that nuts.
29@capitol Dave: no bigger, just stiffer 😛
302 points…
311…the dude is alive only cuz he is white.
2…These gun laws are totally stupid!! This potentially psychotic dim can carry a gun that kills many people at long range, but if a cop finds a switch blade (which despite the BS is mostly harmless) on me I’m arrested. Or if I carry a battle ax I will be arrest and a blade or ax can only harm anyone with in reach so they can run away, try running away with a gun pointed at your back!!!! STUPID!!!!!
Couldn’t resist!
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32W just had one if these assholes pull this stuff at the Atlanta airport. He walked in with an assault rifle. Was rude and arrogant with the cops and they had to let him go because our insane state govt made this stuff legal. They made it specifically legal to “open carry” at the airport.
33As a former citizen of Abilene and a regular visitor there, I am simply bamboozled that we all haVe to worry about going to the fairgrounds, sports arenas, or any other space likely to attract gun carriers which are now, as we all know, legal. I simply don’t have words for it except i’m sorry. You can’t ban gun carriers in Texas cuz it’s legal. Something may be legal without being right or appropriate.
34I grew up with the 2nd Amendment being fully operational, but guns weren’t considered a part of a civilized society, and don’t recall being concerned about being killed. Now there’s Open Carry insanity, and I worry for all our people.
35Is the only alternative to arm EVERYONE and let the Magic Spaghetti Monster sort them out?
I think the first person harmed by this should start a class action suit against Greg Abbott and his NRA cronies. I would sign up. This is a direct terroristic threat against my safety. Maybe we should all show up to the next Texas politician rally armed to the teeth and aiming at their fat heads. Apparently as long as we are white, the cops can’t say boo about it.
36Wa Skeptic, I also had the same idea which I related on another blog only to be told I sounded like snob. I can only envision what this jack wagon looked like hiding behind a very large can of beer. There I said it. I guess that really does make me a snob!!!
37BTW:
If police on the “@ the ready” side fired on the citizens exercising their libidos, there was a significant probability of accidentally hitting their fellow officers. Somehow, whining notwithstanding, I doubt the officers were doing anything more threatening than standing with their hands on a preferred position on their bodies.
Now if those fools had been non-aryan…
38Are you Gun nuts crazy? Do you understand the danger you have put your nation in? We in Vancouver, Canada had a very big hockey riot. Millions in damage, hundreds arrested. NO deaths. We have few guns. The police didn’t shoot either. A CANADIAN.
39This is a perfect example of how a WHITE man can get away with something that would get a person of color into world of serious consequences. Police officers do have the legal right to detain a citizen while conducting an investigation. The dumb ass ranting is exactly the type of idiot thaqt should never be allowed to own carry a weapon. Also any idiot would know that it is best to STFU when you are confronted by police. “Am I free to go?”…” I wish to remain silent”… Instead of shutting his trap he admitted that he had walked on the complaiant’s lawn..The police could have used his own words to arrest him, but they semed to give him a great deal of slack. I notice his compadres where pretty quiet.. I’m not usually a big fan of cops…but I wish assholes like him would try that kinda crap with some Chicago cops
40These two are fortunate they didn’t run into a long-time friend of mine. ex Army ranger who’d likely take their rifles from them and perform
41an impromptu colonoscopy with them.