Tell me again how wearing a mask is "fear"...

[ehrnst]

[LakeArenal]

1. No logic. They use no logic.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, wearing ill-fitting camo and carrying an AR15 will

certainly keep people away from you. Nobody wants to get anywhere near those assholes, except other assholes.

Masks are simpler, cheaper, and more effective, though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. A person who feels the need to take an AR-15 to the grocery store

must be a very fearful person indeed - either that or they are expecting to encounter terrorists in the produce section and hope to be hailed as a hero for splattering the bad guys' innards all over the cantaloupes.

I have never in my life been afraid to go shopping unarmed, and I totally fail to see the logic of bringing firearms to a protest against state-directed pandemic safety measures.

[MineralMan]

6. I haven't seen any armed people here.

I think Minnesota's open carry rules don't encourage such behavior in places like stores. Occasionally, I encounter someone who is carrying a concealed weapon. Poorly concealed, at that, or I wouldn't notice.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I've never seen an openly-armed person in a Minnesota grocery store

but they seem to be fairly common in some other states. Living as I do in the People's Republic of Minneapolis I doubt if I would ever see someone do that. I just don't get the notion that some people have that you have to bring a gun with you wherever you go; I suspect that some of it is just showing off.

[MineralMan]

8. I just checked. Open Carry in Minnesota is complicated.

It appears that you have to have a Concealed Carry permit to carry openly, and it's very easy to prohibit firearms in buildings. That's probably why we don't see it happening much in our state. That and urban Minnesota's general sensibilities about such things. Like you, I've never seen anyone carrying openly here other than LEOs.

[safeinOhio]

3. Strange thing last week at Michigan

protest. The only ones wearing mask were the armed ones.

[MineralMan]

5. They were masked to hide their identities, I'm sure.

Not because of the virus. Odds are they aren't even from Michigan.

"Have AR-15 and Camo. Will Travel."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Supposedly shelter-in-place drills don't traumatize kids but masks derange armed trumpanzees. . nt

[Pause]

10. SPEACHLESS

I live in Oklahoma City and no one
that I know is "opening" maybe, have
a friend over and watch a movie together.



Socialize with people you know and NOT IN LARGE GROUPS.




O no science.