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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome guy walks around Memphis brandishing a rifle. No problem.
This is insane.
https://wreg.com/news/local/report-of-armed-man-near-school-causes-stir-in-midtown/
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)You from around these parts?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,876 posts)Im betting it was a white guy.
If a black man did the same thing the cops would have taken him down in moments.
A film crew did an experiment of a similar situation and put it up on YouTube.
brewens
(15,359 posts)could have been better was if it had been the same cop. They made it real clear what a black man's second amendment rights were worth.
Diamond_Dog
(40,602 posts)I wish someone in law enforcement would have confronted this guy and asked him just wtf does he think hes doing. Besides scaring the bejeebers out of everyone.
Docreed2003
(18,714 posts)Concerned citizens were told that it wasn't a crime until a shot was fired, seriously.
TheRealNorth
(9,647 posts)Then you don't have the same 2nd Amendment "rights" as the Oaf Keepers.
Docreed2003
(18,714 posts)When I saw this story break locally, I knew immediately that this wasn't a POC, even though it happened in Memphis.
Arthur_Frain
(2,363 posts)This shit happened all the time in Utah. At the state capitol, while the legislators were in session no less.
Emile
(42,314 posts)Fla Dem
(27,640 posts)So the RW Politicians baced by gun manufactures voted for gun freedom.
maxsolomon
(38,747 posts)Brandishing is threatening others with a gun. He was just exercising his rights.
Why do you hate freedom?