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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1322278" data-attributes="member: 40736">Great article:<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/05/07/look_at_my_gun_why_nras_scary_open_carry_craze_is_not_about_freedom/" target="_blank">http://www.salon.com/2014/05/07/look_at_my_gun_why_nras_scary_open_carry_craze_is_not_about_freedom/</a>Fair use excerpt:For instance, in the wake of the new Georgia law which pretty much makes it legal to carry deadly weapons at all times in all places,<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/26/georgia-man-flaunts-gun-at-local-little-league-field-intimidating-parents-and-children/" target="_blank"> parents were alarmed when an armed man showed up at the park where their kids were playing little league baseball </a>and waved his gun around shouting “look at my gun!” and “there’s nothing you can do about it.” The police were called and when they arrived they found the man had broken no laws and was perfectly within his rights to do what he did. That was small consolation to the parents, however. Common sense tells anyone that a man waving a gun around in public is dangerous so the parents had no choice but to leave the park.&nbsp; Freedom for the man with the gun trumps freedom for the parents of kids who feel endangered by him. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1322278, member: 40736"] Great article: [url]http://www.salon.com/2014/05/07/look_at_my_gun_why_nras_scary_open_carry_craze_is_not_about_freedom/[/url] [SIZE=2] Fair use excerpt:[/SIZE] [I]For instance, in the wake of the new Georgia law which pretty much makes it legal to carry deadly weapons at all times in all places,[URL='http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/26/georgia-man-flaunts-gun-at-local-little-league-field-intimidating-parents-and-children/'] parents were alarmed when an armed man showed up at the park where their kids were playing little league baseball [/URL]and waved his gun around shouting “look at my gun!” and “there’s nothing you can do about it.” The police were called and when they arrived they found the man had broken no laws and was perfectly within his rights to do what he did. That was small consolation to the parents, however. Common sense tells anyone that a man waving a gun around in public is dangerous so the parents had no choice but to leave the park. Freedom for the man with the gun trumps freedom for the parents of kids who feel endangered by him. [/I] [/QUOTE]

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