marshaul
Campaign Veteran
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Does it really matter if some OCers are looking for a lawsuit?
Doing so doesn't constitute an act of aggression, as the police are always free to, you know, respect the constitutional rights they are obligated to respect.
There is legal and illegal, aggressive and non-aggressive. It seems to me that trolling for lawsuits is neither aggressive nor illegal (so long as your lawsuits aren't frivolous), and so it's as perfectly valid a reason to exercise the freedom of open carry as is self-defense.
Hell, since it is a freedom and a right, I don't even need a damn reason. I can do it because I felt pink today. Having a good reason, like trying to keep the police in line, seems eminently reasonable to me.
In fact, it strikes me as far more reasonable than posting threads questioning the judgement of others in exercising their rights. It's our *right*; you have no call to be concerned or to question it until it becomes illegal or aggressive.
I don't like rap music, but nobody here would be impressed if I posted threads pondering whether rap music was art or merely "trolling for money". For, while rap may be both or neither, I have no cause to be concerned with how others non-aggressively exercise their freedoms in the first place.
Does it really matter if some OCers are looking for a lawsuit?
Doing so doesn't constitute an act of aggression, as the police are always free to, you know, respect the constitutional rights they are obligated to respect.
There is legal and illegal, aggressive and non-aggressive. It seems to me that trolling for lawsuits is neither aggressive nor illegal (so long as your lawsuits aren't frivolous), and so it's as perfectly valid a reason to exercise the freedom of open carry as is self-defense.
Hell, since it is a freedom and a right, I don't even need a damn reason. I can do it because I felt pink today. Having a good reason, like trying to keep the police in line, seems eminently reasonable to me.
In fact, it strikes me as far more reasonable than posting threads questioning the judgement of others in exercising their rights. It's our *right*; you have no call to be concerned or to question it until it becomes illegal or aggressive.
I don't like rap music, but nobody here would be impressed if I posted threads pondering whether rap music was art or merely "trolling for money". For, while rap may be both or neither, I have no cause to be concerned with how others non-aggressively exercise their freedoms in the first place.