re: #136 lawhawk

Apropos of yesterday’s discussions:

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From the Slate article:

“Open Carry Texas sent MDA an email that read, “People are ‘getting used’ to seeing and being around guns and police have come to accept it and don’t even question us anymore. What we are doing is working and society is coming to view the sight of ‘military style rifles’ in public as just another normal thing. Isn’t that a good thing?”

Jesushchrist, I don’t even want to see cops toting those weapons on their rounds in public. Even on patrol, those kinds of weapons are usually locked in their cruisers and they only wear a sidearm.

People like those protest the militarization of cops, but they want that for individuals? Doesn’t make sense at all. And no, it will never be “another normal thing” to see those kinds of weapons carried by civilians just for the hell of it to intimidate others.