Man in Utah open carries AR15

[Gman]

People just need to chill out. Aren't you tired of the pussy footing around with firearms so that just the appearance of one upsets someone to the point of needing psychiatric help? It's irrational to fear them like our society does.

I guess it's OK to have them as long as nobody ever sees them or ever uses them outside of their homes.

Just keep treating them like cigarettes and create a taboo around them. Make people that have them out to be less deserving than the rest of society. Keep up the direction to stigmatize firearms. That sounds like a road to a positive outcome.

[sellersm]

People just need to chill out. Aren't you tired of the pussy footing around with firearms so that just the appearance of one upsets someone to the point of needing psychiatric help? It's irrational to fear them like our society does.

I guess it's OK to have them as long as nobody ever sees them or ever uses them outside of their homes.

Just keep treating them like cigarettes and create a taboo around them. Make people that have them out to be less deserving than the rest of society. Keep up the direction to stigmatize firearms. That sounds like a road to a positive outcome.

^This. As long as we allow 'them' to control the perceptions and drive the emotions, thoughts, conversations, then we lose... Is it a right or not? Last time I checked, perceptions weren't a pre-requisite (nor a litmus test) for a right.

[spqrzilla]

People just need to chill out. Aren't you tired of the pussy footing around with firearms so that just the appearance of one upsets someone to the point of needing psychiatric help? It's irrational to fear them like our society does.

I guess it's OK to have them as long as nobody ever sees them or ever uses them outside of their homes.

Just keep treating them like cigarettes and create a taboo around them. Make people that have them out to be less deserving than the rest of society. Keep up the direction to stigmatize firearms. That sounds like a road to a positive outcome.

This is not the time to be giving the media visual images that will only reinforce our enemies arguments.

[Gman]

This is not the time to be giving the media visual images that will only reinforce our enemies arguments.

Really? Please do share about what types of visual images and arguments you would use to combat the irrational emotions of our "enemies"?

[RCCrawler]

Why, was there something unusual about him?

Just the fact of what a huge target he has made himself out to be, remember the element of surprise is a good thing to have on your side. I have no doubt in my mind that my 14 year old daughter could have taken this kids gun away from him and smacked him upside the head with it.

[O2HeN2]

Just the fact of what a huge target he has made himself out to be...

Right up there with the anti's claim "Concealed carry will turn fender benders into shootouts at the OK corral!" The last thing a criminal wants to do is get into a gunfight where the odds are even. If they see a gun, they go elsewhere to find a softer target. Excceptions? Of course it's possible, but unlikely.

O2

[Ghosty]

Really? Please do share about what types of visual images and arguments you would use to combat the irrational emotions of our "enemies"?

Yes really. Just because the irrational emotions and knee-jerk reactionary public isn't something we like or approve of, doesn't magically make them not exist, or disappear for that matter.