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Sonora Rebel wrote:
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Ai-ai-ai.... Do you quite comprehend that the guy was NOT carrying... nor attempting to carry for self defensive purposes? Have you ever been in 'Vegas? Or any of the casino's? Do you understand at all the dynamic of the security situation? Empty holster = implied gun... somewhere?Where is the gun? Loose gun? Who has the gun? Where is the gun? This is not an instance of 'Rights'... it's a grandstand for attention... by a goof. There are hordes ofgoofs in 'Vegas. The goof in question is a New Yorker...
This is NOT the east coast... or Virginia. The closer y'all get to DC the crazier it gets. 'Must be the water.
If the casino wanted to ask him to leave, that is fine, it is private property after all.
You seem to think that I have to give up my rights to enter a state because of the casinos they have there or what? I'm not sure what location has to do with this at all. OC is legal. Wearing a holster with a gun in it is legal. Wearing a holster without a gun is legal. Don't OC participants frequently promote the idea that the police should not detain anyone that is doing a legal act?
I'm not sure how you determine what is a "grandstand for attention" and what is "activism for the second ammendment". To me this was activism. If you don't want to support activism, you don't have to participate, but to slam the people who do is not very supportive.
To me...this could be potentially a good example of activism. People used to get the same treatment in VA over opencarrying, but as people OC'ed, the harrassment got less and less until it is barely an issue anymore.
If in Nevada right now it is legal to OC but you will get harrassed, you have to start somewhere. Maybe that somewhere is to OC an empty holster as a political statement, and when the police/casinos get used to that...take the next step and OC a pistol.
It boils down to, a right un-used is a right denied. The right to OC is currently being denied in Vegas. This guy is doing activism to potentially make the situation better and people here are slamming him for it. With that attitude, don't expect anything to change in that arena. You have to work for freedom to get freedom, you don't get it by posting all day on the internet slamming people with the courage to do activism.
Maybe we are crazy here in Virginia, but we don't get harrassed nearly as much about OC because of the people who came before us who did activism. Crazy? Crazy about freedom maybe. May your chains rest lightly upon you.
Your personal insults add nothing to this conversation, neither does your condescending attitude.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." —Samuel Adams