Especially if you’re in a private restaurant where the proprietors have every right to ask you to leave if you’re being an asshole. Which is something that Open Carry Texas needs to remember. These assclowns walked into a Chipotle in Dallas with AR-15’s and AK-47’s slung over their shoulders, or in some cases actively brandished, scaring the crap out of people who just wanted to enjoy a burrito in peace but instead had to wonder whether they were about to be murdered in their seats in the latest mass shooting incident. And then when the manager asked them to leave because they were scaring the other patrons, they whined about their “rights” being violated.
Look, you might have the right to carry a long gun in public in Texas. But that doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole on someone else’s property. That’s just being an ass. I mean, look at these clowns:
I lived in Arizona for some years. Open carry was legal in Arizona, and often when I was out hiking the back country, I’d come across people open carrying pistols. It was very common in rural areas. I never saw that in urban areas, because it would have scared people and that would have been being an asshole. But this was back in the 1990’s. Not today. Apparently at some point in the past twenty years people have decided that being an asshole is how you defend rights. Except, well, it isn’t. All it does is prove to everybody else that you’re an asshole, and makes them want to remove the right that you’re touting to shut you up because they’re tired of your assholery.
Look. The fact that you have a right to do something (in some states, at least), doesn’t mean you should do it. If you go on the People of Walmart site, you’ll see all sorts of very large women wearing very skimpy clothing. Uhm, yeah. Just ’cause they sell the clothing in almost your size, don’t mean you ought to be wearin’ it. Just sayin’.
On the other hand, there’s this modest proposal I stole from someone else that might resolve this once and for all. This modest proposal: Okay, so we’ll let you carry any firearm in public, anywhere — as long as it’s colored Hello Kitty pink with flowers and that kitty on it. Let’s see how often those two assholes above would be going out in public if they were forced to carry the Hello Kitty AR-15…
Uhm, yeah. Look. They carry big black ones ’cause they got tiny little white ones, yo. If they were forced to carry that pink rifle every time they did one of these demonstration thingies? Oh fuck no. You could hear their little testicles sucking up into their bellies just looking at the thing, nevermind touching it.
And in the meantime, those of us who are responsible gun owners and who are security in our masculinity (or femininity, whatevah) could go about our business without worrying about these assholes making all gun owners look like, assholes. Win-win, right?
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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You’re right, the smaller the winnie, the bigger the gun. It’s how the little winnie waggers impress the wimmen here in murica!
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As a teacher I was sometimes privy to hearing what the girls *really* thought about teenage asshats with that mentality. They were, like, “what an asshole.” They didn’t think those boys were “cool” because of their big black ones, they thought they were assholes. (Though some girls are attracted to assholes, so go figure). Thing is, a fifteen year old high school boy has an excuse. He’s a hormonal fifteen year old. Once you’re into your mid twenties there’s no excuse anymore.
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I assume you’ve seen the links to the smaller assclown’s Facebook page where he professes his love for “cush” and his weapons. New rule, if you’re dumb enough to post statements about your love of (illegal, in Texas, for now) drugs and guns, you aren’t fit to own any. It’s under the same umbrella of no drinking when carrying, it’s simple common sense.
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Did you notice that the “Hello Kitty” rifle is CA-legal?
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Nope, it violates the magazine size limit and has a pistol-type handgrip (under her hand) as well as being listed on the state list. Painting it pink doesn’t make it CA-legal.
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No, it doesn’t have a pistol grip. The grip is part of the stock on that rifle.
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Thanks. I can see that now. Probably they got around the magazine size limit part by screwing the magazine to the rifle so it takes a few seconds unscrewing a thumbscrew to change the magazine, a common work-around to the ridiculous California assault rifle ban.
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As a girl that pink rifle is cute. I was never a fan of black. Of course it would still have to be accurate and reliable as that what I demand of that tool. As to the size of their thing, seriously? I want to know if they can actually hit something besides the dirt next to the target. if they can’t then they are just another poser with fancy toys.
What I do want to know how do you carry that and eat a burrito? seems awkward.
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I’ve seen other pictures of their “demonstration”. They unslung the rifles and leaned them against their chairs as they ate. Very unsafe to have a loaded rifle just sitting there unsecured and barely supervised like that, but these assholes aren’t about safety, they’re about being assholes.
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Your post has made it to the gunnie blogs and they pretty much all agree with you.
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I think the pink Hello Kitty rifle is perfect for these assholes. They are just a big bunch of pussies anyway.
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Sooner or later, those asshats are going to enter a place where one or more folk are also armed, already angry about something, and a bit paranoid. ‘Stand your ground’ will be silently invoked with a shootout immediately following.
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I just wonder what would happen if a large group of black men started exercising their second amendment rights….
I don’t think it would be pretty.
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No need to worry, we already know what would happen. There would be a law within weeks outlawing open carrying. Sort of like why Governor Ronald Reagan signed the initial California gun laws into law — the Black Panthers had taken to patrolling parts of Oakland while armed to the teeth. Scary black people carrying guns? Oh noze, we need a law!
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Hell, we don’t even need black men standing around with guns to send the knuckle-draggers into ‘Danger Will Robinson’ mode. All we need is two guys standing in front of a polling place.
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Two *black* guys standing in front of a polling place. Why, the horror! Black men! Just standing there! Who knows whether they’re there to rape our womens and childrens? (cue the vapors and increased market for fainting couches, yo!).
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One of them looks like he couldn’t outrun a tree and the other is grinning with his finger poised near the trigger like he was in the middle of Afghanistan instead of Middle America. And I’ll bet that neither is or has been a member of a well ordered militia
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Good point, I need that guy with me the next time I’m in bear country. Remember, you don’t have to be faster than the bear, just one of the people you’re with! The plus is that either one just might stand there and try, emphesis on try, to shoot the bear with their “long arms”.
Big boy has a better chance with the open sights, but I don’t like the other guys chances to find the target charging him with that scope…
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A bear would laugh at Big Boy’s .223 bullets hitting him. The chances of a .223 hitting something critical in the giant mass of blubber and bone that is a bear before the bear manages to smash him into big boy mash would be pretty slim, bears are *tough*, and their skulls are thick and sloped so head shots will often just ricochet. Platform Soles Short Dude might have a better time of it with the AK-47 (that’s a peep mount BTW, so he can see under it through the open sights), which shoots a bigger bullet, but still, I really wouldn’t want to try taking down a bear with something that small. Give me a .30-06 minimum. Hell. give me a .375 (doesn’t matter which variety) or a .450 Marlin, when I got a bear charging me I want some goddamn firepower, not a friggin’ infantry pop-gun designed to wound rather than kill, yo.
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I think Willard is on to something.
JzB
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Hmmm, I have a CCW permit but the only weapon that I usually carry is a itty bitty NAA 22 mag revolver. What does that say, heh…
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I personally don’t think that says anything, but I know what the two asshats in the first picture would say… “ewww, ick, a girly gun!” ‘Cause it ain’t big and black and long and good for strokin’, so it ain’t a good substitute for their tiny shriveled pale little white ones. Just sayin’.
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Another thought is that Texas law does have a specific limitation on it about open carry of long guns and black powder weapons. They may not be carried in a manner “calculated to cause alarm”.
Now I’m no genius, but if there are calls about a possible hold-up, someone was alarmed. But no one was charged. People called about guys in traffic with guns approaching cars. But no one was charged.
Willard already knows the answer if it was a group of black men/women carrying those guns. Why does everyone insist our society is color-blind when they instinctively know better? This particular portion of the law was initially drawn up in 1973, just about the right time for some Black Panthers (code for uppity Negros) to be bothering citizens (code for “white folks”) by patrolling their neighborhoods with guns.
You have to remember the Texas Legislature only meets every two years, in odd numbered years. So the activity in 1968-69 would not have been addressed before 1971. And a full rewrite would likely take until the 1973 session. Just saying…
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