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Cops Gun Down Man For Legally Carrying Firearm

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john-galt

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Not sure if anyone posted this story yet. It's not in Virginia but I thought it would be worth reading & discussing. Kind of my worst fear of open carrying.

"Erik Scott was a West Point graduate who went on to serve honorably in the Army, get his MBA from Duke and establish a lucrative career in real estate and as a sales rep for a medical device company. He was 38 years old when he was gunned down in portico of a Las Vegas area Costco store by officers from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. While it was 7 bullets from the only people we’re supposed to trust with guns that snuffed out Erik Scott’s life, what really killed him was an irrational fear of firearms – hoplophobia...."

http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/cops-gun-down-man-for-legally-carrying-firearm/?cat_orig=us

http://americanvisionnews.com/3642/cops-gun-down-man-for-legally-carrying-firearm

Thoughts?

Note: This is apparently an older story being reported by wnd.
 
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PistolPackingMomma

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This was already posted in another sub forum and Grapeshot locked it due to there being multiple threads about it already.
 

MAC702

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... Kind of my worst fear of open carrying...

He wasn't open carrying. He was concealing and it got seen, which is FAR WORSE, because now you look like a criminal (in their eyes.) Remember, traditionally, good guys carried openly, and only bad guys had a need to conceal their guns.

I am in NO WAY saying there was ANY justification whatsoever for his murder by our police.
 
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