How would you handle it?

 

1. Not sure about Wisconsin, but here in Colorado you would not be able to carry a weapon in your hands.  This falls under “brandishing” and is illegal.  Also, how many criminals do you know that would wear there weapon in the open?  Most of them are carrying illegally anyway, so they have to hide the fact they have a weapon to begin with.

   Colorado"s constitution protects open carry while not protecting concealed because when it was written oly criminals hid the fact that they were armed.

   Posted by Brass       05/18/2009  at  05:28 PM  



2. Drew, I have to disagree with you, here - open carry is by far the most realistic sign of a free society, and also a society least likely to have a high level of violent crime (the ‘wild west’ myth is just that, a myth).

   Now, if someone were to walk into a shop with a pistol in hand, the shopkeeper would be within his rights to react strongly, but generally open does not mean in the hands, but in a holster.

   Posted by Siddhartha Vicious       05/18/2009  at  06:43 PM  



3. A friend I knew (now deceased) who lived in Kansas City, Kansas had that problem with the KCK police.  They kept stopping him and harassing him for no reason.  A couple of times they laid charges which were later dropped (because they were fabrications and had no real evidence to substantiate them.) After putting up with this for about a year, he and his lawyer brought this before the courts, and won.  The KCK police were placed under a strict restraining order that unless they saw this guy actually committing a crime, they couldn’t stop him or question him.  (Isn’t that the way it should be ANYWAY?)

   This was a source of great amusement my friend, as it’s pretty difficult to get a restraining order against the police, but he did it!

   Perhaps that’s what the fellow in the story will need to eventually do.

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       05/19/2009  at  06:21 AM  



4. Drew, I have to disagree with you, here - open carry is by far the most realistic sign of a free society, and also a society least likely to have a high level of violent crime (the ‘wild west’ myth is just that, a myth).

   Now, if someone were to walk into a shop with a pistol in hand, the shopkeeper would be within his rights to react strongly, but generally open does not mean in the hands, but in a holster.
   

   Seconded. Strongly.

   Posted by cmblake6       05/20/2009  at  05:04 AM  

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