Does Open Carry Include Rifles?

[Rhino]

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We all must learn what our Ancestors knew: Laws & Courts cannot replace ethics, responsibility, & religion, to keep order in society.

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Yeah, when any entity bans the discussion of rel!g!on within reasonable boundaries, it undermines the very foundations of the freedoms the Founding Fathers believe were necessary and which underwrote the laws protecting our rights to own and carry (keep and bear) the arms which we appreciate...

Just as a reminder:

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other...

Letter from John Adams to the Militia of Massachusetts, 1798

Founders Online: From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

founders.archives.gov

The morality necessary to maintain the government we were given, and to keep people from mis-using firearms, was predicated on the moral guidance of the Scriptures as taught by the churches in the colonies.

 

[leVieux]

Yeah, when any entity bans the discussion of rel!g!on within reasonable boundaries, it undermines the very foundations of the freedoms the Founding Fathers believe were necessary and which underwrote the laws protecting our rights to own and carry (keep and bear) the arms which we appreciate...

Just as a reminder:

Letter from John Adams to the Militia of Massachusetts, 1798

Founders Online: From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

founders.archives.gov

The morality necessary to maintain the government we were given, and to keep people from mis-using firearms, was predicated on the moral guidance of the Scriptures as taught by the churches in the colonies.

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Correct on every point !

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[Axxe55]

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Correct on every point !

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so are you going to boycott tgt because discussing religion is prohibited here?

 

[Rhino]

so are you going to boycott tgt because discussing religion is prohibited here?

If the mods are generous enough to leave my previous post here alone, I can live with the general rule, though I find the morality of responsible gun ownership and usage to require some form of moral, and therefore “religious” argument and it seems a tricky thing to fully exclude it in the discussion of morality. It’s exclusion is not actually neutral.

 

[Axxe55]

If the mods are generous enough to leave my previous post here alone, I can live with the general rule, though I find the morality of responsible gun ownership and usage to require some form of moral, and therefore “religious” argument and it seems a tricky thing to fully exclude it in the discussion of morality. It’s exclusion is not actually neutral.

well for whatever reasons has prohibited religious discussion i have seen threads locked because some tried to circumvent the rules,personally i don't seewhere religion has anything to do with gun ownership and morals are not exclusive to religion!

 

[Rhino]

well for whatever reasons has prohibited religious discussion i have seen threads locked because some tried to circumvent the rules,personally i don't seewhere religion has anything to do with gun ownership and morals are not exclusive to religion!

Only if you define religion narrowly and arbitrarily. Atheism is also a religion that is promoted by banning those other religions with deities, for instance. Every moral argument appeals to it’s highest authority, which then tells you who is the deity.

 

[easy rider]

It's amazing! There are some folks that advocate for gun rights, yet don't want people to show their arms, or think you should only carry sidearms.

What if all someone can afford is a rifle or handgun? Should they not defend themselves because they decided a (military style) rifle was better protection?

I'm sick and tired of the public at large basing their decisions on feelings. I'll be damned if I'll disarm myself because it hurts your feelings.

 

[Gordo]

I miss the days of gun shows down town at the convention center.
Parking was across the street, and when it was set up day, I would park there, #1 son and I would load our arms, and shoulders up, take the garage elevator down to street level, cross the street over to the convention center.
There were always tourists on the way, and I think some of them wet their pants when they met a middle age man, and under age boy, heavily armed, on the way to set up.

 

[edub]

Apparently there was a guy in a local Walmart walking around with a rifle (and looks like a 6 pack of Bud Light tall boys). Seems to have caused a lot of panic. Does constitutional/open carry include something like this?

This was taken by someone who was there.

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[edub]

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[easy rider]

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

*sigh* Whatever floats your boat.

 

[Axxe55]

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

umm okay whatever!

 

[V-Tach]

How many times has it happened that OC folks were shot first?

Anyone have a stat on it?

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

How many times has it happened that OC folks were shot first?

Anyone have a stat on it?

It's another myth just like the streets will run red.
And shootouts like the O.K. Corral.

 

[rotor]

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

Your right to carry as you see fit. Your right to carry to protect others. I don’t agree with you but do as you want.

 

[easy rider]

It's another myth just like the streets will run red.
And shootouts like the O.K. Corral.

Yeah, his (edub) quote: "Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first." was the reason for my sigh. While he may believe that, it's written as a fact.

 

[Axxe55]

How many times has it happened that OC folks were shot first?

Anyone have a stat on it?

a lot of people like to use that as a strwman argument for concealed carry

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

do you have proof or evidence that supports your assessment or just parroting amythas being factual!

 

[majormadmax]

I will never open carry. Any malevolent shooter will target OC people first and eliminate them first. CC all the time to protect others!

Bless your heart!

Also, thanks for playing 'Tell me you're from Austin without telling me you're from Austin!'

 

[TheMailMan]

It's another myth just like the streets will run red.
And shootouts like the O.K. Corral.

There are a couple of videos out there where people have taken the gun from an OC and shot them. A lot more videos of people stealing guns from someone OCing with an improper holster.