Saw Some Guy OC'ing Today. Scary!

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Alpha Sierra said:
Oh, and don't presume that you can declare who is and who is not an extremist in this debate. You don't rate that.
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It seems to me that the opinion of someone being an extremist is subjective. So I have to ask, are you then the person who decides what subjective opinion anyone "rates" the right to have?
 
ladder13 said:
or surrendered to some alleged majority of opinion.
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Ain't that the truth!

Edited to add (and not directed at you, ladder13): Just so we're clear, there are indeed people who I opine shouldn't own firearms, but the difference between some of the posters who've spoken and myself is that I don't advocate summarily stripping people I don't like of their civil rights without due process. Furthermore, I also believe in "innocent until proven guilty" and the old adage that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." If you believe it's moral to petition TPTB to pre-emptively disenfranchise groups of people you don't like with the stroke of a pen based on little more than personal conceit and paranoia, then perhaps YOU shouldn't own firearms. That's my opinion.

Oh, and also...

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Model520Fan said:
It has been answered again and again. On this thread.
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No, I don't buy it. If you really believe that the person is that out of it that you really have a concern about them carrying a gun you call the cops and you let the cops figure it out.

We don't know what really happened and we don't know what the OP saw that he percieved as that disconcerting (other than the actual OC itself) b ut if I saw a person that I honestly judged to be mentally impaired walking around with a gun I'd call the cops if they didn't come that's not on me.
 
Hey guys,

It's fine to have lively discussion and pointed arguments, but let's not make it personal.
 
kbm6893 said:
It was a stainless 1911 with the hammer back and safety on. Two stainless mags on his weak side. Since 1911's are made by so many manufacturers, who knows what manufacturer made it?

Jeez. People who are gonna tl me hey can't tell when a person is mentally challenged? Do I know if it was autism or aspergers? Of course not. Never claimed to be a doctor. All I know is I am concerned when I see a person who probably got extra time on all his tests in school ( it's called an IEP- individual education plan) or more likely due to his age wasn't even mainstreamed into a regular class, carrying a deadly weapon where you DONT get extra time to make a decision, I don't like it. When I see a person of apparently normal intelligence who doesn't require an aide to follow him around, I just think "here comes Rambo" since I never see it near me. Pretty much everybody I know around here owns guns. Most carry them concealed
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Being someone who had an IEP in school, this really ticked me off, I have a TBI resulting in ADHD like symptoms, I got extra time on tests, the option to type my essays rather than hand write them etc.

I'm "normal" when it comes to reaction time, hand eye coordination. I play sports recreationally on a level with my "normal" friends, rode a bike and I never ended up in traffic because my brain was slow to react. Taking a test on paper is a separate brain function than being situationally aware, identifying a potential threat, de-escalating a situation, dealing with a threat if necessary.

You would never know I have my brain injury unless you sit me down and make me take a test or write a paper. I will have to politely disagree with your notion that academic performance is a measure of a person's mental ability as a whole.
 
dtm_oskar said:
off duty when they have the choice basically all LEO's carry concealed, the statistics are out there that cops get killed with their own weapon all the time.
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Around here, cops carry open all the time, plain clothes or uniform, on or off duty. I'm not sure when such carry became popular, but it's been very common for several years. I agree that cops get killed with their own weapon far too often.
 
dtm_oskar said:
Being someone who had an IEP in school, this really ticked me off, I have a TBI resulting in ADHD like symptoms, I got extra time on tests, the option to type my essays rather than hand write them, etc.
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That hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn't it? :D

I'll have the courage to come forward and say that I fall within the autism spectrum and have "weird" behavioral quirks that would probably set our OP on edge. Funny, though... I know right from wrong, was never committed or declared a danger to myself or others, never had any arrests for violent or criminal behavior, yet I get the feeling I'd not be spared from the abridgement of my civil rights and property because some medical health professional adjudiciated my ability to have such things or my childhood psych records were added to the NICS. But it's "for the children" and "if it can save even one life," right? Only those "fit for de faterland" deserve to own the means to protect themselves. :rolleyes:
 
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