Fun With Guns: My Gun is Bigger Than Your Gun Edition
There’s a story that claims the first two and only cars in Chicago had a wreck. I doubt it’s true, but it makes a good story.
Speaking of wrecks, here’s Georgia.
A “misunderstanding” between two armed men in a Georgia convenience store led to an arrest on the very day that the state’s new expansive gun rights law went into effect, according to The Valdosta Daily Times.
Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress summed the incident up for the newspaper.
“Essentially, it involved one customer with a gun on his hip when a second customer entered with a gun on his hip,” Childress said.
According to the Daily Times, the first man, Ronald Williams, approached the second man in the store and demanded to see his identification and firearms license. Williams also pulled his gun from his holster, without pointing it at the second man. The second man responded by saying that he was not obligated to show any permits or identification — then he paid for his purchase, left the store, and called the police.
That’s not a misunderstanding. That’s a showdown.
The first damn day, y’all. They couldn’t even wait for the ink to dry on the Governor’s signature.
Thanks to Sandy for the heads up.
Unfortunately, when all these “good guys with guns” start shooting at each other – some of us are going to get caught in the crossfire.
1@ Cheryl: physics, stupidity, and probability are on your side.
2And Target has issued a statement that firearms are NOT permitted in ANY of their stores!!
However, there is a little cafe in Rifle, CO where the waitstaff all are packing … male and female … and their cute little motto is: Nothing goes better with a Smith & Wesson then a smile!
A Big Sigh!!
3Didn’t even get a chance to say, “Let the games begin”.
4Hands up everyone who’s surprised…. Nobody? Yeah, thought not.
5They were tired of pissin’ matches. Now they can have shootin’ matches, which will make things much more interesting.
6I consider Georgia a red zone. It should be a state that worldwide travel advisories warn against. Of course, there is Florida–until they get rid of Scott, Texas until they get a democratic governor, and my own state of Ohio until they annex most of the southwestern parts of the state and get rid of our idiot Sec. of State, Jon Husted.
Uh oh . . . on second thought there are a whole lot more I could mention.
Nevermind.
7Well, at least TARGET got embarrassed enough to ban open carry in their stores. I hear they are also run on GOP style policies. Any other suggestions for where to shop? I don’t go to WalMart. And anyone coming to our house with a gun oughta just leave it home.
8Marge, at this point I’m just working with some small businesses and mail/Internet ordering.
9I guess Georgia forgot to include issuance of the GoodGuyWithAGun t-shirts for everyone to wear. Oopise!
10@ Marge Wood-Make the effort to look for locally owned, locally produced. It will be difficult for some items but worth the effort better than further enriching the Walton family and the Chinese government/oligarchy. Too bad my long-time friend ex-Army Ranger cannot be more places anyone showing a weapon in his vicinity is apt to have it taken away from them and an impromptu colonoscopy performed with it.
11I’m still waiting for the first lawsuit where both sides claim Stand-Your-Ground.
12JT, it was so much easier in the movies when they all wore black or white hats.
I live in the librul gun-hatin’ state of NY so it’s not really an issue for me, but I would tend to make it a rule to assume that EVERYONE carrying a gun into a fast food restaurant, Target, or community softball field is a bad guy and get the hell out of there!
13A friend of mine had this to report about a man who attempted to express his 2nd Amendment rights at their local restaurant. As the gun toting customer walked in the front door, the owner held up her hand and said:
“We already killed the meat, Walter. Bacon, burgers, chicken, they’re dead. You want to be sure, order em well done.”
14Rick, did Walter slink out with a red face or just continue on it, sitting down and ordering? I do like the owner’s comment for sure 🙂
15Here’s a little more of the story from my friend Jack:
The restaurant owner said:
“Give me the rifle and you can have it when you’ve finished your breakfast. But I can’t have the Wild West here with families and tourists.”
In the end Walter’s politics took 2nd fiddle to eggs and bacon and his usual chicken fried steak. And Walter never brought his Winchester in the Diner again.
16We are putting the responsibility of gun control in the hands of business owners and front line staff. The open carry laws have tied the hands of law enforcement, so Hurray for people like the guy in Rick’s story.
17leenie-is that you from the mudflats?
18I live on the fringe of Washington D.C. and I have yet to see anyone open carry except for the cops. The stores here are so dang competitive it would hurt your teeth! They also know that anyone can shop on line rather than in your face. As for the 2nd Amendment bozo who declared that Target would lose hundreds of thousands of customers over their ban on open carry, he obviously know nothing about on line shopping. Probably still thinks pigeons carry messages. What a maroon!
19I was a street cop in Georgia in the mid 70s and it would seem nothing much has changed, it’s just legal.
20Dontchuknow Charles Darwin is somewhere watching these two in GA and others elsewhere and LHFAO.
21Teh Gerg @ 12
Hopefully, they’ll both do it while dead.
22Teh Gerg, I believe that etiquette dictates that only the surviving party gets to claim “stand your ground.” The lower just gets the standard 6 feet of ground.
23Maybe the dumbass who called the police will think twice before openly carrying a gun next time. Nothing good will happen with all these new open carry and concealed gun laws. When it is easier to get a concealed weapon permit than it is to register to vote logic has left the building.
24I read an article about this incident that
25My computer messed up. Sorry.
I started to say that the police chief was quoted as saying that according to the law no one, not even him – the police chief – could ask to see the carry permit. If true – what a law!
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