Protester Defends Bringing Guns To Obama Rally

[harvey007]

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune



"I'm a pretty laid-back guy that loves his kids and his country," Hendrickson said.

He added, however, that he had just been released from jail a month earlier on an assault charge for pepper-spraying a customer at a Cub Foods in Brooklyn Center, where he worked as a security guard.

Read more: http://www.startribune.com/local/59288822.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU

[MineralMan]

1. Oh, great. The moron did 60 days in jail for pepper spraying

an innocent customer in a parking lot while working security at a grocery store. And he's carrying two pistols around with him all the time. I just can't wait to hear from the gungeon-dwellers on this one. What defense will they offer for a man with a serious anger management problem carrying?

Uff da!

[RamboLiberal]

2. How the hell does he have a license to carry

if he just got out of jail? Huh? Are the laws that lax there?

[MineralMan]

5. The assault charge was, apparently, a misdemeanor.

Still, he has a record of violence in other cases. CCW should be pulled. It may be that the misdemeanor isn't enough. It should be, in my opinion.

I want to see a photo of him so I make sure to avoid this moron. A supermarket rent-a-cop...who needs that?

[Winterblues]

36. Does it say he has a concealed carry permit, or was he wearing his guns on his hip

In many places it is legal to carry a gun openly and no permit is needed.

[RamboLiberal]

39. Yes it said he was carrying 2 guns concealed

and he has a license.

[MineralMan]

41. It's Minnesota. There's no open carry here, except for peace officers

and some security people. He was CCW.

[damntexdem]

3. But he needs guns for self-protection because ...

his personality keeps getting him into fights. ;-)

[MineralMan]

6. That's about it. Eventually, he'll shoot someone, and then it'll

be too late to pull his CCW permit.

[fascisthunter]

11. sounds like he can stand on his own

but has no problem starting trouble with people. (bully)

[ScottLand]

4. So why DO the rest of the people in the world

think we're idiots? Have we outlawed common sense?

[skypilot]

7. Ugh!!

Another fucking idiot. If these morons had an original thought it would die of loneliness. A bunch of other morons did this to make some kind of point and now this idiot is trying to make the same point that's already been made. Of course none of them has anything to contribute to the HEALTH CARE debate.

[onehandle]

8. Another proud moment for our gun culture. nt

[MineralMan]

9. Self-deleted

[kristopher]

10. A $450 Glock and a $300 Kel Tec

A security guard at a supermarket makes how much?

I wonder what his children had to do without?

[st8grad93]

34. They probably had to do without ...

$120 sneakers
$250 game console with 4-5 games at $50 each
$100 jeans
hundreds of dollars of other items that kids "need"

The average family can easily carve out $750 in savings if they really want to.

[kristopher]

35. Really?

On a supermarket security guard's pay?

I don't think so.

[st8grad93]

38. Yeah, really ...

How much do you want to bet that this guy's significant other works and that he has a cell phone (at least $360 per year) and cable / satellite (at least $480 a year). The article did not say that was his only job, just that he worked there. Maybe he has 2 or 3 jobs.

$750 in a year is nothing to cut out of a budget if you really want to.

[mac56]

37. Welcome to DU.

Let me be the first to tell you, "You're wrong."

[Deep13]

12. Why two?

Is a fire fight so likely that he will need an instant back-up if the Glock jams? If so, isn't there a duty to just stay home that day?

What an asshole.

[MineralMan]

16. Mall cops all carry backup weapons. They got a razor in their shoe,

too. You never know when you'll need that extra firepower to take down an old lady who parked incorrectly.

Mall cops got back! They got belly, too.

[Deep13]

19. I was a rent-a-cop once at a grocery store.

If we ever got robbed, my plan was to hide in the produce section beind the watermelon until it was over. I wasn't about to be somekind of goddamn hero for $6.50 an hour. "Sir, someone is eating the donuts without paying for them!" Yeah, and? Tell the manager. Call the cops. What the fuck do you expect me to do about it? I had no arrest powers.

[AuntPatsy]

42. lol too funny

[MineralMan]

13. Crickets from the Gungeon....

{chirp}

[Deep13]

21. I'm usually sympathetic to gun owners (being one myself) ...

...but this is just asking for trouble.

[AuntPatsy]

43. You and me both. what I can't stand about idiots like this is that he is doing his level

best to make us all look like nuts and if you ask me, it's people like him who I feel like threaten my freedom to carry and it's really making me furious...but then again...as I have stated before..half of those that took the class with myself I would never willingly put a loaded weapon in their outstretched hands..

I do think the laws need a bit of reforming to ensure the sane won't lose our rights because of people like the one above who is obviously attempting to make a statement but in a bad way..very bad..and someone is bound to get hurt especially when we are seeing the violence without weapons beginning again...

[obamachangetheworld]

14. Another Law-Abiding gun owner? n/t.

[mac56]

15. From the article:

"Now I'm going to be the guy with the assault record -- the gun-carrying assaulter of people who's outside the Obama rally," Hendrickson said, shaking his head.

Think you coulda maybe seen that one coming, huh, Einstein?

:nopity:

[MineralMan]

17. He added, 'I'm a complete moron. Now they're gonna take my CCW permit.'

"I need my guns, 'cuz I keep getting in fights."

[Deep13]

20. And I don't like these waiting periods either...

...after five days, I'm not mad anymore!

[MineralMan]

26. Well, natch! That's why he buys his firearms from his buddy.

None of that registration garbage for him.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Did someone squeeze the Charmin?

Seems to me that's more a pummel-them-vigorously-about-the-head-and-shoulders offense than a pepper-spraying offense.

[MineralMan]

25. No, I think the woman he pepper-sprayed didn't get her car

completely between the lines of the parking space. That's a major offense, doncha know? When he yelled at her, she reached for her cell phone to call 911, so he hosed her down with the pepper spray.

The funniest thing of all is that, while he was working as a grocery store rent-a-cop, he wasn't even allowed to carry a firearm. I've never seen an armed security guard at the local Cub.

Off-duty, though, and he's armed, you betcha. Goin' to see the PresenUnitedStates...hell yes. He's just gotta be armed. At any moment, some Volvo-driving Obama supporter's bound to strike him with a paper sign.

Moron!

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. Well, If he only carries while off-duty, that makes sort-of sense...

After all, there's probably a whole posse of little-old-lady CUB shoppers out to get him now. (They're little, but they're wiry.)

[polmaven]

22. I just can't imagine

how someone with such a gentle soul as he keeps getting into these messes! :sarcasm:....(do I really need that?)

[elocs]

23. The 2nd Amendment is not a blank check for intimidation. Freedom of speech is not absolute either.

There needs to be a federal law that restricts the carrying of guns within so many hundreds or more feet of any federal representative or official by anyone other than police, security, or Secret Service.

[Oak2004]

44. That'd put a dent in their potential hunting partners, as well as make target practice

at a public range impossible for them.

I do agree with your premise though. I just think you need to make it X-hundred feet away from a function, not a person.

[Deep13]

24. How would these teabaggers feel if...

...a group of armed Black men showed up at one of these anti-Obama rallies? Suppose they were just standing around keeping an eye on things "just in case."

[MineralMan]

27. What? Are you saying that black people can have guns?

When did that happen? :sarcasm:

[Deep13]

28. 1866

:hi:

[Zorra]

29. These fearful, insecure gun toters at Obama rallies have a need to compensate for

some powerfully self-embarrassing "lack" in their lives, and they don't have the slightest clue that everyone but other ignorant conservatives can see it.

"Haw-haw, oh boy, look at me, look what I got - ain't I special?"

You kinda have to feel sorry for people that have little or no self-awareness and/or understanding of their subconscious motivations.

[MineralMan]

30. That's part of it...

The other part is that they get to be celebrities for a day. All their winger buddies are going to give them the big WooHoo and punch them on the shoulder. From then on, they'll be the envy of the knuckle-dragger class.

[liberal N proud]

32. Laid back?

"released from jail a month earlier on an assault"

Yeah, laid back guys always go to jail for assault. :puke:

[MineralMan]

33. Yah, he assaulted a woman in a parking lot while working as a

supermarket security officer. He hosed her down with pepper spray for "reaching for an unknown object." He's a real laid-back guy.

[defendandprotect]

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