I mean, not really. You don’t really have to question it, as I’d say the definitive answer is right there - in the negative.
Well, it ain’t funny. Best case scenario, someone is carrying around a gun like this because they’re hoping to inspire panic, fear, anxiety and/or assert their own power. That’s problematic. Living in a society where you live in constant fear of gun violence is problematic. Having to sit there and watch someone who might be a mass shooter, waiting for the instant when they suddenly start killing everyone around them, legally unable to do anything until that moment (at which point you might be dead), that’s fucking intolerable.
Yep, it’s a pretty effective way of taking over public spaces. I was reading about a park where kids were playing a little league game. A guy shows up with a gun, starts waving it around, telling people they can’t do anything about it. They call the cops. The guy has a permit - he’s right, they can’t do anything about it. Their only choice was to leave.
Oh, it was deliberate - he was recording it. Probably not so much hoping he’d be detained, but of creating a mass panic (that he could legally get away with).
It entirely depends on your state. In Michigan, you can carry openly in an otherwise gun-free zone (stadium, day care, etc) but only if you have a concealed carry permit. Private owners of these venues can still ban open carry as well, but publicly owned places are often barred from banning guns by another state law.
there are laws against harassment and intimidation. the police just have to want to arrest white men for breaking those laws. and they really don’t want to
And even if he isn’t, he should be treated like he is. What’s the point of carrying a big weapon like that if you don’t intend to use it? Just carrying it is a threat.
“This is Missouri,” the statement quotes Andreychenko as saying. “I understand if we were somewhere else like New York or California, people would freak out.”
I get what you’re saying. By the numbers, the shootings rise with increasing “vigilance” of the drills. I’m just going by what my kids have had going on at their schools, so this is strictly anecdotal, but they really didn’t have regular drills until Parkland.
