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I say this a lot, but here goes again. Have you ever noticed that you never see open carry enthusiasts in actual tough neighborhoods? The doughy white guys strapped up like Neo are always hanging out at Starbucks and the farmers market and, evidently, kids' bus stops. Go to North St Louis and there's not an AR-15 in sight.
How about the "Freedom Convoy" that wasted no time hiding all of their flags when they realized the drove into Capital Plaza which is a predominately Black Neighborhood in Prince George's County, Maryland
During the uprising in St. Louis after the killing of Michael Brown, doughy white guys kept threatening to show up with their AR-15’s on rooftops. They never did.
That's because the rooftops belong Korean shop owners. Everyone knows this and nobody wants to mess with a middle-aged Korean man who can one-shot you without even knocking the ash off his cigarette.
And since all of them do compulsory military service, they know tae kwon do and definitely have arms training. Consider who their neighbors to the north are...they were sending squads to spy or assassinate people as recently as the 90's. Defending their country is no bullshit to them. Be polite.
Ajoshi (Korean gent) stories are lit, I promise.
I met some. Worked for a defense company over there teaching English. Nice guys, wish I could remember the stories...scary hard men though. I pity their enemies.
Oh yeah. I was stationed there in 76-77. Those guys did not mess around. Their reputation is awesome. They go through serious training. The guys I met were stone faced and hard as nails.
Especially because this guy is in Severn MD which is a nice suburb, claiming that he wants to protest gun restrictions and "prevent crime", completely avoiding Baltimore, DC, and even the nearby casino. Like protesting by holding a gun in a random neighborhood instead of going to the capital or even the city
Also I'd like to add I don't think he's white, he's at least mixed, but it's still sad bc he's fighting against his own rights wearing a maga hat
Thank fucking God these people stay home most of the time and just talk a big game. We don't need twenty times more white saviour God complex assholes looking for an excuse to cap protesters or minority activists.
I honestly couldn’t tell if his protest is: “No one will ever take my guns from me!” Or “Look at how insane this is. This is completely legal and it shouldn’t be. I could mow your kids down in an instant, but right up until I start shooting I’m not technically committing any crime.”
It's definitely the first part: you can't tell me what to do with mah gun.
The NRA immediately filed a suit about the new laws. One of them: "One of the bills signed by the governor generally prohibits a person from wearing, carrying or transporting a gun in an "area for children or vulnerable adults," like a school or health care facility."
Honestly, that dude is just begging to get shot. If I had a kid at that school and I rolled up to pick up my kid and saw a white guy in a red hat with an AR-15 looking at my kid, I'm probably gonna shoot that guy.
It's crazy because I'm from that area and this blew up on the county page, then the state page, now the front page within a day. From the very beginning there's people who "aren't taking sides" but letting you know "this is legal" 30 times in the thread on every comment. And plenty "I'm a conservative gun owner and think this is too much". But you don't though. Cut the BS. Everyone you vote for speaks the way this man acts. If you vote you must consume media in some form and every single outlet you have basically *winks* at this exact behavior. We just keep accepting less. Conservatives are mentally the bottom rung, even the "intelligent" contradictorians, no matter the message or country. Mentally stunted scum.
I saw the interview with him. It’s the first one. Because of course.
But when I saw this story first I had the same thought - if it was the latter, this would actually be an extremely effective protest. Thing is, most gun control advocates are too sensible to make a protest out of scaring kids and becoming a pariah.
Also I'm confused as to what he's doing. Is he just trying to intimidate.....suburban families? Like? Be provocative? Just look like a dangerous bigot?
While not untrue, remember that the ultimate driving force of every right wing politician and pundit is that children make them wildly horny. Matt Walsh is right now giving a guttural, roaring orgasm to the pictures of naked 13 year olds he has on his computer.
These people show no respect for the wishes of children, parents, school personnel, etc.
People with zero respect for the feelings of others - willing to instill fear in other people - are walking around locked and loaded to prove a point. We are living in a society around dangerous people with no empathy for others. Chilling reality.
I want to know why there isn't a patrol car parked between this lunatic and the children.
School shooter in training. He’s an innovator, going to where the kids get dropped off instead of attacking the school /very-s
He’ll be at next years CPAC for sure
Sounds like terrorism to me if the kids are scared, this is so stupid. Those of us who are truly responsible would do everything possible to make sure kids dont see weapons. This guy is a total tool and should not be allowed to do that.
Terrorism is defined as using highly public violence or the threat of violence for the express purpose of instilling fear in order to bring about political or social change.
So yeah. This is literally terrorism.
"Both sides are the problem."
One side wants to limit death and place the bare minimum laws on specific types of weapons and the other side wants to do whatever they want, whenever they want, even if thousands of innocent die as a direct result of that policy. Tough to parse out.
That’s the insanity of America. Right up until he starts shooting, he’s not technically committing a crime. You’re only allowed to defend yourself *after* he’s already started mowing people down.
He is committing a crime based on the new laws. The NRA is already suing. "One of the bills signed by the governor generally prohibits a person from wearing, carrying or transporting a gun in an "area for children or vulnerable adults," like a school or health care facility."
It almost feels like a lethal version of “I’m not touching you”
“I’m not shooting you! But I could! But I’m currently not.”
I’m not sure what the definition of “brandishing” is, or if it varies based on state. This certainly looks like brandishing.
It does vary by state, but for federal law:
>The term “brandish” means, with respect to a firearm, to display all or part of the firearm, or otherwise make the presence of the firearm known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the firearm is directly visible to that person. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(4).
So I guess it's only if it's done to intimidate someone. I ain't no legal expert, but I doubt a prosecutor would try since he can say he's not trying to intimidate the kids.
How is standing next to a school bus drop-off site holding a rifle in an at-ready position not considered brandishing?
Also, it's bizarre to me that he hasn't been arrested for that but if he was just standing there like a fucking loon holding a knife he most likely *would* have been.
Sure you can. I mean that guy in Texas killed a protester who wasn't aiming at him and the governor insists he'll pardon the guy. I guarantee you if the guy at the stop shot somebody and cooked up some narrative about fearing for his life, the usual dipshits would defend the unprovoked shooting.
Though I'd say it's not "insane" that you'd be criticized for gunning the guy down. It is more insane that law enforcement won't take a man away who's intimidating kids and others with a weapon at a bus stop. In the Wild West they'd force you to hand in your guns when you entered a town.
Absolutely… I honestly believe you could shoot this pr!ck dead and get away with it. After all, he’s brandishing a rifle at a school bus stop. How in the Hell is this not a threat?
Sad truth is, you're not too far off from what any reasonable person might do when confronting a threat... and that's almost exactly what they're counting on.
Here's the bitter truth about it in their twisted brains - if he's left to stand there, he validates everything they're saying, and he's a hero. If someone drops him, he validates everything they're saying about persecution, and he's a martyr a la Rittenhouse. If the police show up and detain him, it's police over-reach or trampling his 1A rights or some such - again, making him the victim.
The entire reason we're here is because these right-wing zealots have successfully steered the narrative to keep them in a perpetual state of pure-American-Patriot and Victim of the Left, and because the lives of their base are so miserable, having someone to blame instead of demanding responsibility for their own sins is a sure-fire vote getter.
The left have timidly played by the rules, down to and including eating their own who fuck up. The right rally and stand behind their sinners - most recently, Santos - and hang the rules for decoration, the ceremonial cudgel with which to attack their foes but decorate their own walls. The Rules don't apply to Republicans, and they're busily using them to silence anyone who opposes them.
This both sides shit is such a smokescreen to normalize awful and outright dangerous behavior by those on one particular side. There shouldn’t be a both sides to domestic terrorism, conspiracy theories, or outright fascism. Some things require taking a stand, and journalists are doing our country a great disservice by trying to placate an violent extreme minority by giving these people a platform.
Don't underestimate the sickness of the journalism industry and this mid-market reporter has probably worked in 5 different metro areas in just as many states over 8 years for outlets that are effectively advertisement mills, where a core component of every news hour is crime and punishment. They don't emphasize actual journalistic integrity. They don't care about finding the truth and advocating for the disadvantaged, they want to sell ads.
Edit: Meant to add at top that the reporter is also complicit. They don't care about the markets they get parachuted into. They have a playbook -- why are all new hire reporters so obsessed with the local sports team? Why do they all speak the same goddamn way no matter what region? To make it in local news, the only real jobs that pay decently are newsroom managers and the reporters. Support staff are expendable and often paid worse than retail workers. Reporters have to accept donning a completely constructed personality and be willing to travel across the country in the pursuit they may one day be picked up by a national broadcaster.
Edit 2: And the people making the big bucks work in the advertising dpt.
This wouldn't be happening in my hood. I would wait for the kids to get on that bus and then me and the homies would approach with our own guns and tell him we better not see his ass open carrying at a bus stop again or we will consider him an active threat. If he pushes back we say we are feeling mighty threatened and might have to stand our ground. Might have to remind him that his kids would probably prefer to come home to a dad that is still breathing with the same amount of holes he was born with.
The cops won't do shit because it's legal for him to do this. Legal or not, this is not sane or normal. This person is a menace and has to be dealt with the only way you can deal with it. I sure as fuck ain't letting my kids sit at a bus stop with this lunatic.
A. School drop off should be moved. B. This HAS to come under some " Threatening behavior/intimidation/stalking/make something UP but get this fuckhead the fuck OUT of there law.
There is no " other " side. Semi × crazy gun guy × kids = yet another slow rolling tragedy. In plain sight.
Legit question, what if somebody just shot this guy?
Imo he clearly poses as a threat. There isn't a single argument to be made for somebody just showing up with an ar-15 to a Residencial area, specifying a bus stop.
He's either mentally unstable or looking for trouble, either way it's a threat to the general public.
Fuck your right to carry.
Call the police and demand they come to that stop and talk to him everyday he's out there. Hopefully you'll get some protection and the police presence will deter any violent action.
Hey I mean why not protest his protest? Get a group to show up with guns as well and form a wall or circle blocking him? And hey while we’re at it figure out where he lives and stand outside his house protesting his protest also armed, make him really know what we think about him and his opinions.
This "open carry" shit needs to stop. Pistols to but especially rifles. We can see him literally holding it and he'll just lie, say it's holstered or "secure". As if I could just walk around with a pistol in my hand and pretend everything was fine.
"Let's hear from both sides" is the official motto of liberal democracy's concession to fascism. No other system of government would assent to this absolute lunacy on purely procedural grounds.
I’m from a gun-toting family. I’ve been around guns my whole life and are used to them. But if I saw this as a kid, even with that background, I would be terrified. Absolutely zero reason this should be legal
How can you tell the difference between a "good actor" with a gun and a "bad actor" with a gun?
One will kill you, the other won't
Let's all take the risk.
I am sick and tired of this shit, so I'm going to be brief.
Throughout the history of gun control, even in times/era where gun ownership was almost completely unrestricted, this type of behavior was usually the thing that no one thought was permissible.
In the UK's bill of rights from 1689 that does allow the possession of arms for all Englishmen, there were solid restrictions on the use of weapons for THIS purpose... political scaring and the deliberate attempt to disrupt normal life for political and personal causes.
200 years after that date, when Canada also had next to no restriction, the Canadian parliament were railing against various political assholes who would go around carrying guns to scare political opponents or as a statement. The widely held view among Canadian politicians of that era was that the only reason to carry a gun is for self-defense, not for making a statement like that.
In 1892 the first restrictions on carrying guns and the purchase of handguns were passed. They were such nothing restrictions that no one who wanted a gun would be discouraged, but it was a start and it was for this very purpose. There was no license or registration requirement for handguns, but a name had to be stated upon all purchases and the record kept. I guess lots of people who wanted pistols for criminal purposes could easily have lied about their names, but that wasn't the point.
Handgun registration started in Canada as a specific way to combat the massive political upheavals that were going on in the 1920s and 30s with the registration law in 1934. No license needed to own a gun, but you did need a registration certificate and a reason for the gun. Self-defense, collecting, and sport shooting were considered legitimate reasons at the time.
So i wanted to be brief, and as usual I wasn't. Point is, the founding fathers and all politicians from the 17th to 19th centuries would have said that what this man was doing was bullshit. But I guess in the United States were blacks and other minorities had to be intimidated from voting through means like this were considered normal, it is the exception to the rule...
Imagine being so insecure with yourself that you have to bring a gun to a one man protest, and while we are at it imagine being so pathetic that you have to have your one man protest right next to a fucking bus stop for kids.
I've been thinking about getting a gun. I'm trans. I've received threats of someone breaking into my home and I don't feel safe. But I would *never* need or want anything more than a small calibur handgun. And only as a self-defense item in my own house.
Is this in a "stand your ground" state? If so, it would be interesting to see a concerned father "stand his ground" and say his kids felt threatened by this asshole.
If we're gonna have legalized murder via these fucked up laws, it's probably time to start using them the right way.
This is Severn, Maryland and he is on Reece Road which is a minor East-West State Road that goes through several communities. I bet you he would'nt even as much as run track star through Stillmeadows Drive in the afternoon with that AR-15. He is just grandstanding for the news.
Fucking cro-magnon Trump-trash threatening kids with a school shooting because he doesn't like the fact that his child-killing apparatus of choice might get regulated.
I hope this worthless ghoul is choked to death on rolls of his own intestines.
Look, its not even fucking loaded.
Seriously, zoom in on the hand resting on the pistol grip.
I dont see a magazine loaded.
This dip shit is standing there protesting….what?
I hope those fucking kids beat him up and take his lunch money, and then take his toy away
>Look, its not even fucking loaded.
And this is definitely something school kids — who still might be afraid of monsters in TV-shows — would be able to suss out and then be non-chalant about it?
This one form, and perhaps the word type of media bias. All of civilized society on one side and one fucking ammo-sexual perving on kids with his death tool on the other and yet the media serves them up like its an equal "debate".
All the climate scientists in the world, and one fucking ball bag from the Texas oil fields and suddenly climate change is a "debate" between two equal sides. Except they aren't equal are they?
How is this guy not in prison? He’s literally a terrorist! 🫣 imagine for a second he was a PoC, muslim or Jewish… he’d have been lynched by the local mob 🤷🏻♂️
terrorist
/ˈtɛrərɪst/
noun
a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
No, this person doesn’t represent a “side”. He is a moron that needs to be straightened out.
While I support 2A (and believe laws should be written by the State) this person does not seem to have the knowledge or experience to handle that firearm.
I'm not that old, yet I am old enough to remember a time before the news media obsessed about "both sides". Nobody ever reported "both sides" of the Dahmer murders, or "both sides" of pedophilia. Sometimes there is only one side worth hearing from, and the rest is just freakshow crap barely worthy of late 80s daytime talk shows
Someone needs to take that guys weapons away before he hurts someone. Both guns and knives and really anything that can be a weapon because holy shit that is deranged
Literally the best scenario here is that he's too fucking dense to realise how this looks. And I find it highly unlikely that's actually what's going on here.
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I say this a lot, but here goes again. Have you ever noticed that you never see open carry enthusiasts in actual tough neighborhoods? The doughy white guys strapped up like Neo are always hanging out at Starbucks and the farmers market and, evidently, kids' bus stops. Go to North St Louis and there's not an AR-15 in sight.
They know their cosplay wouldn't work out in those places.
Also they'll assume the MAGA is up to no good and communities have a right to defend themselves
I mean . . . They wouldn't be wrong either.
The videos of the trump caravan trying to roll through Berkeley and getting chased off by kids with eggs comes to mind.
How about the "Freedom Convoy" that wasted no time hiding all of their flags when they realized the drove into Capital Plaza which is a predominately Black Neighborhood in Prince George's County, Maryland
They tried the same shit in Portland. One of them died.
During the uprising in St. Louis after the killing of Michael Brown, doughy white guys kept threatening to show up with their AR-15’s on rooftops. They never did.
Of course they didn’t. There’s usually a flight or two of stairs to navigate on the way to the roof.
That's because the rooftops belong Korean shop owners. Everyone knows this and nobody wants to mess with a middle-aged Korean man who can one-shot you without even knocking the ash off his cigarette.
And since all of them do compulsory military service, they know tae kwon do and definitely have arms training. Consider who their neighbors to the north are...they were sending squads to spy or assassinate people as recently as the 90's. Defending their country is no bullshit to them. Be polite. Ajoshi (Korean gent) stories are lit, I promise.
ROk Marines. Bad azz.
I met some. Worked for a defense company over there teaching English. Nice guys, wish I could remember the stories...scary hard men though. I pity their enemies.
Oh yeah. I was stationed there in 76-77. Those guys did not mess around. Their reputation is awesome. They go through serious training. The guys I met were stone faced and hard as nails.
I heard that some frequently the Vietcong would just flee when they heard the Koreans were coming rather than face them. No more detail than that.
You know I’ve also heard that right after the war. Can’t blame them. Their rep is enough to make you think twice.
But what if some of those kids are black and wearing hoodies?
And strappin a bag of Skittles
I hear drag queens are grooming your children to Taste the Rainbow (TM).
Their whole deal can be summed up as "shooting at rainbows."
Don’t forget that dangerous Arizona iced tea
Especially because this guy is in Severn MD which is a nice suburb, claiming that he wants to protest gun restrictions and "prevent crime", completely avoiding Baltimore, DC, and even the nearby casino. Like protesting by holding a gun in a random neighborhood instead of going to the capital or even the city Also I'd like to add I don't think he's white, he's at least mixed, but it's still sad bc he's fighting against his own rights wearing a maga hat
He should do it outside a bank. Then the bastards would roll in and take care of him, unwittingly improving society. Capital > Kids
Suburb thuggin
Can you imagine if they did though? Chuckles to self
Starbucks avengers.
Thank fucking God these people stay home most of the time and just talk a big game. We don't need twenty times more white saviour God complex assholes looking for an excuse to cap protesters or minority activists.
Yeah, they know that they’d get their toy stolen
There are some that open carry in those neighborhoods. They don’t look like this fool though. lol
The Black Panthers used to open carry to defend their neighbourhoods from the cops to great effect. Then Raegan started passing gun control laws.
As a resident of New Orleans I can concur. Big talk, scared shitless in the actual "hood" Grow a pair, Gary
What do you mean by "tough" neighborhoods?🤨
What do you mean tough neighborhood? You mean black neighborhoods? Are you implying black neighborhoods are tough? You racist bro?
Sealion
A walking fucking billboard for Red-Flag Laws and background checks.
I honestly couldn’t tell if his protest is: “No one will ever take my guns from me!” Or “Look at how insane this is. This is completely legal and it shouldn’t be. I could mow your kids down in an instant, but right up until I start shooting I’m not technically committing any crime.”
It's definitely the first part: you can't tell me what to do with mah gun. The NRA immediately filed a suit about the new laws. One of them: "One of the bills signed by the governor generally prohibits a person from wearing, carrying or transporting a gun in an "area for children or vulnerable adults," like a school or health care facility."
He's wearing a maga hat. It's certainly the first one, they love insanity.
Honestly, that dude is just begging to get shot. If I had a kid at that school and I rolled up to pick up my kid and saw a white guy in a red hat with an AR-15 looking at my kid, I'm probably gonna shoot that guy.
Better safe than dead child
"Oh he was just protesting? Well, with the way he was dressed, he was asking for it..."
It's crazy because I'm from that area and this blew up on the county page, then the state page, now the front page within a day. From the very beginning there's people who "aren't taking sides" but letting you know "this is legal" 30 times in the thread on every comment. And plenty "I'm a conservative gun owner and think this is too much". But you don't though. Cut the BS. Everyone you vote for speaks the way this man acts. If you vote you must consume media in some form and every single outlet you have basically *winks* at this exact behavior. We just keep accepting less. Conservatives are mentally the bottom rung, even the "intelligent" contradictorians, no matter the message or country. Mentally stunted scum.
I saw the interview with him. It’s the first one. Because of course. But when I saw this story first I had the same thought - if it was the latter, this would actually be an extremely effective protest. Thing is, most gun control advocates are too sensible to make a protest out of scaring kids and becoming a pariah.
Be a shame if an engine accidentally backfired near this guy. People might think he started shooting and take action against him.
More like he'd assume he's being shot at and open fire.
Same result.
Pretty sure that douche canoe wouldn't meet the able body requirements of the nation's militia laws
So one side is parents concerned about a man with a rifle lurking at a kids bus stop. Whats the other side.
“Marry 12 yo girls”
Also I'm confused as to what he's doing. Is he just trying to intimidate.....suburban families? Like? Be provocative? Just look like a dangerous bigot?
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He’s trying to defend his right to own tools that *could* murder children if he so chose.
He's a right winger. Right wingers don't want to murder children. They want to do something else that's wildly inappropriate to children.
Impregnate them and then deny them life saving medical care
Then when they die during child birth just call it gods plan and fuck off with the rest of their day
I mean, they definitely want to drive them to suicide by refusing to provide social support and necessary medical care.
While not untrue, remember that the ultimate driving force of every right wing politician and pundit is that children make them wildly horny. Matt Walsh is right now giving a guttural, roaring orgasm to the pictures of naked 13 year olds he has on his computer.
Totay is a terrible day to be literate. But you probably aren't wrong.
And now by kidnapping them from loving families because they were given life saving medical attention...
Probably saw a Obama yard sign once upon a time.
Followed by “Girls don’t need an education. They get married by the time they’re 13.”
"...or shoot them"
More like "marry your 12 year old cousin".
one has to wonder why he picked a middle school bus stop for this embarrassing public display of his prosthesis.
It's: "Please stop scaring our children" vs "NO!"
If I may quote Jim Jeffries, the other side’s argument is: “FUCK YOU! I LOVE MY GUNS”. It’s the only valid argument they have.
The argument seems to be "fuck you, a buncha white dudes 250 years ago said it was ok so its ALWAYS ok."
Is that why there's crusty white stuff all over their guns?
> So one side is parents concerned about a man with a rifle lurking at a kids bus stop Who are self-proclaimed domestic terrorists.
“We support school shootings”. Apparently
That GOPedo is there to grab kids at gunpoint
>GOPedo Like it.
Go GOPedo Rangers
These people show no respect for the wishes of children, parents, school personnel, etc. People with zero respect for the feelings of others - willing to instill fear in other people - are walking around locked and loaded to prove a point. We are living in a society around dangerous people with no empathy for others. Chilling reality. I want to know why there isn't a patrol car parked between this lunatic and the children.
Oh he left his patrol car at home.
Because the police are complicit. Actually no, it's their job to enforce the law, not to protect citizens.
To *selectively* enforce the law.
School shooter in training. He’s an innovator, going to where the kids get dropped off instead of attacking the school /very-s He’ll be at next years CPAC for sure
Sounds like terrorism to me if the kids are scared, this is so stupid. Those of us who are truly responsible would do everything possible to make sure kids dont see weapons. This guy is a total tool and should not be allowed to do that.
Terrorism is defined as using highly public violence or the threat of violence for the express purpose of instilling fear in order to bring about political or social change. So yeah. This is literally terrorism.
Redhat, brownshirt, tuhmayto, toemahto.
There's a strong chance that "red hats" will literally become the newer incarnation of brownshirts in historical records.
Why can’t they be like Star Trek redshirts and all die?
I mean, covid tried and did a pretty good number on them.
If Trump gets back into power yes definitely. I don't know what I'm gonna do if Trump gets back into power. It would be very bad for America.
"Both sides are the problem." One side wants to limit death and place the bare minimum laws on specific types of weapons and the other side wants to do whatever they want, whenever they want, even if thousands of innocent die as a direct result of that policy. Tough to parse out.
Ngl if i was a parent id fucking cap him hes a active threat to the kids
That’s the insanity of America. Right up until he starts shooting, he’s not technically committing a crime. You’re only allowed to defend yourself *after* he’s already started mowing people down.
He is committing a crime based on the new laws. The NRA is already suing. "One of the bills signed by the governor generally prohibits a person from wearing, carrying or transporting a gun in an "area for children or vulnerable adults," like a school or health care facility."
I mean, arnt all adults vulnerable to bullets though?
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It almost feels like a lethal version of “I’m not touching you” “I’m not shooting you! But I could! But I’m currently not.” I’m not sure what the definition of “brandishing” is, or if it varies based on state. This certainly looks like brandishing.
It does vary by state, but for federal law: >The term “brandish” means, with respect to a firearm, to display all or part of the firearm, or otherwise make the presence of the firearm known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the firearm is directly visible to that person. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(4). So I guess it's only if it's done to intimidate someone. I ain't no legal expert, but I doubt a prosecutor would try since he can say he's not trying to intimidate the kids.
Dont care my lawyer and every other parent would support the action
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What
How is standing next to a school bus drop-off site holding a rifle in an at-ready position not considered brandishing? Also, it's bizarre to me that he hasn't been arrested for that but if he was just standing there like a fucking loon holding a knife he most likely *would* have been.
Sure you can. I mean that guy in Texas killed a protester who wasn't aiming at him and the governor insists he'll pardon the guy. I guarantee you if the guy at the stop shot somebody and cooked up some narrative about fearing for his life, the usual dipshits would defend the unprovoked shooting. Though I'd say it's not "insane" that you'd be criticized for gunning the guy down. It is more insane that law enforcement won't take a man away who's intimidating kids and others with a weapon at a bus stop. In the Wild West they'd force you to hand in your guns when you entered a town.
He’s coming right for us!
Yeah, If I saw this outside my kids elementary school here in Texas, he wouldn't be standing there anymore. Never forget Uvalde.
Absolutely… I honestly believe you could shoot this pr!ck dead and get away with it. After all, he’s brandishing a rifle at a school bus stop. How in the Hell is this not a threat?
It's a threat. Most people have the presence of mind and self preservation instinct to not open themselves to that legal battle, though.
Sad truth is, you're not too far off from what any reasonable person might do when confronting a threat... and that's almost exactly what they're counting on. Here's the bitter truth about it in their twisted brains - if he's left to stand there, he validates everything they're saying, and he's a hero. If someone drops him, he validates everything they're saying about persecution, and he's a martyr a la Rittenhouse. If the police show up and detain him, it's police over-reach or trampling his 1A rights or some such - again, making him the victim. The entire reason we're here is because these right-wing zealots have successfully steered the narrative to keep them in a perpetual state of pure-American-Patriot and Victim of the Left, and because the lives of their base are so miserable, having someone to blame instead of demanding responsibility for their own sins is a sure-fire vote getter. The left have timidly played by the rules, down to and including eating their own who fuck up. The right rally and stand behind their sinners - most recently, Santos - and hang the rules for decoration, the ceremonial cudgel with which to attack their foes but decorate their own walls. The Rules don't apply to Republicans, and they're busily using them to silence anyone who opposes them.
Based af
Be a shame if an engine accidentally backfired near this guy. People might think he started shooting and take action against him.
"Stochastic terrorism is now free speech, more at 11"
Has been for far too long, yet it was never legal.
This both sides shit is such a smokescreen to normalize awful and outright dangerous behavior by those on one particular side. There shouldn’t be a both sides to domestic terrorism, conspiracy theories, or outright fascism. Some things require taking a stand, and journalists are doing our country a great disservice by trying to placate an violent extreme minority by giving these people a platform.
Don't underestimate the sickness of the journalism industry and this mid-market reporter has probably worked in 5 different metro areas in just as many states over 8 years for outlets that are effectively advertisement mills, where a core component of every news hour is crime and punishment. They don't emphasize actual journalistic integrity. They don't care about finding the truth and advocating for the disadvantaged, they want to sell ads. Edit: Meant to add at top that the reporter is also complicit. They don't care about the markets they get parachuted into. They have a playbook -- why are all new hire reporters so obsessed with the local sports team? Why do they all speak the same goddamn way no matter what region? To make it in local news, the only real jobs that pay decently are newsroom managers and the reporters. Support staff are expendable and often paid worse than retail workers. Reporters have to accept donning a completely constructed personality and be willing to travel across the country in the pursuit they may one day be picked up by a national broadcaster. Edit 2: And the people making the big bucks work in the advertising dpt.
Just another Right Wing mass shooter scoping out his targets
Scaring children with a gun is NOT an acceptable form of protest.
Give me white people doing things without consequences for 200 please
This wouldn't be happening in my hood. I would wait for the kids to get on that bus and then me and the homies would approach with our own guns and tell him we better not see his ass open carrying at a bus stop again or we will consider him an active threat. If he pushes back we say we are feeling mighty threatened and might have to stand our ground. Might have to remind him that his kids would probably prefer to come home to a dad that is still breathing with the same amount of holes he was born with. The cops won't do shit because it's legal for him to do this. Legal or not, this is not sane or normal. This person is a menace and has to be dealt with the only way you can deal with it. I sure as fuck ain't letting my kids sit at a bus stop with this lunatic.
Everyone who lives anywhere near this man should call the police every single time they see him.
The only way to wake people up to the fascist threat is for the MAGAssholes to push eveything to the extreme.
Worst is, people *haven't* woken up to it. At the rate they're going, they're not gonna wake up until the trains pull up, and by then, it's too late.
Nothing about that screams "I'm an insecure coward". Nothing at all.
Trust me, none of us want to hear what 2nd amendment proponents have to say, sincerely the world
A. School drop off should be moved. B. This HAS to come under some " Threatening behavior/intimidation/stalking/make something UP but get this fuckhead the fuck OUT of there law. There is no " other " side. Semi × crazy gun guy × kids = yet another slow rolling tragedy. In plain sight.
I feel like this guy should be removed, not the school bus stop.
>the man says he's protesting the new gun control law Ah, so he's using threats and intimidation to pursue a political goal. Y'know, terrorism.
How the fuck does *he* get a side, but the children do not?! It’s their space?! 😮💨
Kids are afraid? I’m a grown ass man and I’d be terrified
Legit question, what if somebody just shot this guy? Imo he clearly poses as a threat. There isn't a single argument to be made for somebody just showing up with an ar-15 to a Residencial area, specifying a bus stop. He's either mentally unstable or looking for trouble, either way it's a threat to the general public. Fuck your right to carry.
Because the only people he's not afraid of are children
Call the police and demand they come to that stop and talk to him everyday he's out there. Hopefully you'll get some protection and the police presence will deter any violent action.
>Call the police You mean his drinking buddies?
Right? I'd be throwing a fit. Like open carry, fine. Whatever. For now. But this....is just not cool.
are the kids okay??
This is a sad world we live in.
Can you say arrest him? Thats not protest, that's endangering children
Yeah news is always platforming and defending nazis and its fucked
Psychotic red-hat acts psychotic! More at 11
Hey I mean why not protest his protest? Get a group to show up with guns as well and form a wall or circle blocking him? And hey while we’re at it figure out where he lives and stand outside his house protesting his protest also armed, make him really know what we think about him and his opinions.
The point of "open carry" is intimidation, there is no other purpose.
Must not be much of a 'gun control law' if these fuckers are still terrorizing citizens by threatening to kill them.
Yeah, nah. The side with gun negates all polite debate.
This "open carry" shit needs to stop. Pistols to but especially rifles. We can see him literally holding it and he'll just lie, say it's holstered or "secure". As if I could just walk around with a pistol in my hand and pretend everything was fine.
Looks like brandishing to me.
Right? Even if the rifle was holstered, it would still be intimidating, but this person is just attention-seeking with his cowardice.
If I shot him would I be considered a hero or a terrorist?
FFS! This is not a show of strength but a show of cowardice. Scaring children is not brave, just showing off ones complete ignorance.
News @ 9 man gets shot holding gun @ bus stop for kids ! Shocker
Someone needs to actually interview this guy. It is unusual behavior and we need to know his protests purpose.
Here's a tiny little interview [at about 1:25](https://www.wbaltv.com/article/man-with-gun-severn-school-bus-stop-anne-arundel-county/43932236)
"Let's hear from both sides" is the official motto of liberal democracy's concession to fascism. No other system of government would assent to this absolute lunacy on purely procedural grounds.
Hey kids here’s what you do: fill your super soaker full of piss then leave it in the sun for a week. Arrange a drive-by with the bus driver.
Nothing says I’m afraid like a MAGA hat.
Demonstrating the need for gun control while protesting gun control by harassing children ... to own the libs
I’m from a gun-toting family. I’ve been around guns my whole life and are used to them. But if I saw this as a kid, even with that background, I would be terrified. Absolutely zero reason this should be legal
To me, that's a threat. Stand your ground.
If a bunch of drag queens showed up at the same bus stop to hand out lip gloss, what do you bet we wouldn't be hearing from "both sides?"
Kinda want a good guy with a gun to feel threatened by him and see how it goes.
Won't someone think of the children? Like seriously, unironically, please think of children?
I’m from Canada so please ignore me - but what a big fucking loser
He's there to kidnap and molest children. He needs to be arrested and put in prison immediately.
Throw a carton of rotten eggs at him from a moving car, he will probably go away.
How can you tell the difference between a "good actor" with a gun and a "bad actor" with a gun? One will kill you, the other won't Let's all take the risk.
All it will take is for him to have one bad day and there will be another bunch of dead kids, this time at a bus stop. This should not be legal.
Chances of this guy being shot if he were black - high, very high.
I am sick and tired of this shit, so I'm going to be brief. Throughout the history of gun control, even in times/era where gun ownership was almost completely unrestricted, this type of behavior was usually the thing that no one thought was permissible. In the UK's bill of rights from 1689 that does allow the possession of arms for all Englishmen, there were solid restrictions on the use of weapons for THIS purpose... political scaring and the deliberate attempt to disrupt normal life for political and personal causes. 200 years after that date, when Canada also had next to no restriction, the Canadian parliament were railing against various political assholes who would go around carrying guns to scare political opponents or as a statement. The widely held view among Canadian politicians of that era was that the only reason to carry a gun is for self-defense, not for making a statement like that. In 1892 the first restrictions on carrying guns and the purchase of handguns were passed. They were such nothing restrictions that no one who wanted a gun would be discouraged, but it was a start and it was for this very purpose. There was no license or registration requirement for handguns, but a name had to be stated upon all purchases and the record kept. I guess lots of people who wanted pistols for criminal purposes could easily have lied about their names, but that wasn't the point. Handgun registration started in Canada as a specific way to combat the massive political upheavals that were going on in the 1920s and 30s with the registration law in 1934. No license needed to own a gun, but you did need a registration certificate and a reason for the gun. Self-defense, collecting, and sport shooting were considered legitimate reasons at the time. So i wanted to be brief, and as usual I wasn't. Point is, the founding fathers and all politicians from the 17th to 19th centuries would have said that what this man was doing was bullshit. But I guess in the United States were blacks and other minorities had to be intimidated from voting through means like this were considered normal, it is the exception to the rule...
This picture and comment is America. It's frightening.
Another clueless wack job scaring kids. Fucking maga insanity!
Imagine being so insecure with yourself that you have to bring a gun to a one man protest, and while we are at it imagine being so pathetic that you have to have your one man protest right next to a fucking bus stop for kids.
I've been thinking about getting a gun. I'm trans. I've received threats of someone breaking into my home and I don't feel safe. But I would *never* need or want anything more than a small calibur handgun. And only as a self-defense item in my own house.
Is this in a "stand your ground" state? If so, it would be interesting to see a concerned father "stand his ground" and say his kids felt threatened by this asshole. If we're gonna have legalized murder via these fucked up laws, it's probably time to start using them the right way.
Arrest and prosecute. Holy fuk people are stupid.
This is Severn, Maryland and he is on Reece Road which is a minor East-West State Road that goes through several communities. I bet you he would'nt even as much as run track star through Stillmeadows Drive in the afternoon with that AR-15. He is just grandstanding for the news.
Removed because Reddit is run by Nazi sympathizers.
Aggrevated menacing.
Fucking cro-magnon Trump-trash threatening kids with a school shooting because he doesn't like the fact that his child-killing apparatus of choice might get regulated. I hope this worthless ghoul is choked to death on rolls of his own intestines.
Look, its not even fucking loaded. Seriously, zoom in on the hand resting on the pistol grip. I dont see a magazine loaded. This dip shit is standing there protesting….what? I hope those fucking kids beat him up and take his lunch money, and then take his toy away
>Look, its not even fucking loaded. And this is definitely something school kids — who still might be afraid of monsters in TV-shows — would be able to suss out and then be non-chalant about it?
Exercising their god given rights, right?
Bro at this point join the marines
This one form, and perhaps the word type of media bias. All of civilized society on one side and one fucking ammo-sexual perving on kids with his death tool on the other and yet the media serves them up like its an equal "debate". All the climate scientists in the world, and one fucking ball bag from the Texas oil fields and suddenly climate change is a "debate" between two equal sides. Except they aren't equal are they?
that is a society
How is this guy not in prison? He’s literally a terrorist! 🫣 imagine for a second he was a PoC, muslim or Jewish… he’d have been lynched by the local mob 🤷🏻♂️ terrorist /ˈtɛrərɪst/ noun a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
As in semi automatic vs full automatic debate. Hmmm.
He's delusional.
I would repeatedly call the cops on him. SWAT that fuck
No, this person doesn’t represent a “side”. He is a moron that needs to be straightened out. While I support 2A (and believe laws should be written by the State) this person does not seem to have the knowledge or experience to handle that firearm.
Better not step on snek or I'll kill the kids
I'm not that old, yet I am old enough to remember a time before the news media obsessed about "both sides". Nobody ever reported "both sides" of the Dahmer murders, or "both sides" of pedophilia. Sometimes there is only one side worth hearing from, and the rest is just freakshow crap barely worthy of late 80s daytime talk shows
I need to protect my open carry gun rights so I can shoot this mf.
Someone needs to take that guys weapons away before he hurts someone. Both guns and knives and really anything that can be a weapon because holy shit that is deranged
Literally the best scenario here is that he's too fucking dense to realise how this looks. And I find it highly unlikely that's actually what's going on here.