Watch This Open-Carry Activist Taunt Cops Outside A School: ‘I'M TALKING TO YOU TOUGH GUY’

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A gun owner triggered a brief lockdown last week while demonstrating his open carry rights outside a Michigan high school. Police spotted the man, who they recognized from previous encounters, walking about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday near Lamphere High School in Madison Heights. Officers called administrators when the man approached school property, and they locked down the school for nearly an hour.

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The man approaches officers and asks why they’re following him, and he tells police he won’t answer any of their questions.

He asks one of the officers to remove his hand from his holstered weapon and demands to know whether the officer will shoot him.

“I’m talking now,” the man says, interrupting one of the officers. “That shiny little badge he has on his chest doesn’t give him any more rights than I have. Actually, you all work for me and the taxpayers, right?”

“You come over here with your hand on your gun, that’s reason for me to think that you feel ill will towards me,” the man continues. “If I were to do the same thing, you’d probably pull your gun out and point it at me, am I right? I’m talking to you, tough guy.”

The man continues taunting the police as other officers arrive and get out of their cruisers, asking if they saved anyone recently or just wrote tickets.

An officer tells him he is on school property, and that administrators want him to leave, but the man asks whether or not the school is funded by taxpayers.

The man continues arguing with police, who finally leave as the gun owner walks away from the school muttering complaints.

Guns may be openly carried on school property by those with a valid concealed carry permit, although police did not appear to ask the man for one.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/watch-this-open-carry-activist-taunt-cops-outside-a-school-im-talking-to-you-tough-guy/

[Inkfreak]

1. I like what he's saying.

Open carry near a school seems like a cry for attention. But he's not harming anyone and I kinda like seeing cops squirm a bit....cause, fuck them.

[Hoyt]

2. I think police demonstrated remarkable restraint with this gun toting yahoo.

[Logical]

9. True, usually they shoot unarmed people. Nt

[Hoyt]

13. No, he's your usual gun flasher, showing his . . . . . ., like these jerks.

[immoderate]

3. The Scum Bag Instruction Set

--imm

[Politicalboi]

4. Yea Gunz!

What a backwards world we live in where guns are allowed in schools.

Guns may be openly carried on school property by those with a valid concealed carry permit, although police did not appear to ask the man for one.

Our only hope is for more "morans" to threaten cops with their precious guns. The cops are going to get tired of this shit fast.

[jberryhill]

5. Why does he initiate a conversation with them?

They are as free to drive around and watch him as he is free to walk around with his gun.

[aikoaiko]

6. That open-carry demonstrator is an asshat.

[Vinca]

7. Lucky for him he's a white guy.

[steve2470]

10. yep you nailed it nt

[LeftinOH]

8. Open carry demonstrations are performed by deranged men

who seriously need to have their "right" to own a gun examined.

This is just abrasive public theatre which has nothing to do with gun rights - but plenty to do with low emotional intelligence (and bad manners).

[Orsino]

12. Walking ED medication commercials are what they are. n/t

[cwydro]

11. What a complete jerk. nt

[DisgustipatedinCA]

14. Come on, Cops. THIS was the guy reaching for his waistband.

I saw that he had aspirations of reaching for his waistband. You guys know what to do--just pretend he's a black kid.

On a more serious note, I'd keep my kids out of school until the school could guarantee that there wasn't a crazy teabagger around brandishing a gun.