Guy in Fort Collins Open Carries rifle at Walmart.

[Dingo]

NO. it's NOT like that at all. The anti-gunners aren't like your Dad. They have ZERO respect for you as a gun owner. They're working tirelessly and diligently to TAKE AWAY your rights, not just of gun ownership, but of liberty & freedoms. There's a huge difference between your father and those anti-gunners.

I'm siding with Ronin here, and standing by what I've said in the past: our rights are rights. Period. If my right makes others uncomfortable, especially because they've been brainwashed, so be it. Guns are not to be feared.

What part of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED do you all not get? Enjoy your false sense of security and your compromise with the brainwashed masses. It won't end well.

Ah, there's that good ol' hostility I knew had to be inbound eventually. I view the general populace who is uncomfortable with guns, drastically differently than the traitorous politicians deliberately trying to disarm me as part of their larger totalitarian agenda. I don't view Joe Q Wal-mart Patron who's afraid of guns as the enemy. They vote for questionable people because they're ignorant and largely brought up by the engineered culture on TV. The govt is an entirely different story - I believe their attempt to disarm is a malicious, illegal, and carefully calculated attack.

One further consideration... I would honestly be uncomfortable if somebody was walking around with a loaded rifle in the grocery store, and I'm as vehemently pro-gun as you'll ever find. Would I call the cops on the guy? No. But I would be taken into a hyper-vigilant state that I don't care for, and would probably try to get my family out of the immediate area. "Guy carrying gun" does not automatically equate with "common-sense gun-owner". Aside from the confrontational attitude already implied by doing it in the first place, how do I know what this guy's safety ethics are? I see long time "gun people" doing stupid shit all the time, like sweeping buddies with loaded guns while talking, standing around with fingers on the trigger etc. At least by having it concealed, there's a slightly higher implied level of awareness, and the bonus is that it doesn't raise anybody's blood pressure.

Because society at large does not open carry firearms, and with everybody in a panic-mode after all of the recent mass-shootings, I still think it's disrespectful to freak people out like that. Regardless of what my rights are. Forgetting that it's legal, is it fair to immediately make everyone in the store wonder if they're going to be cowering for cover when he opens fire? People don't think 2nd Amendment when they see something like that, they think about what they've seen on the news recently. Parents worry about their kids, people get scared, and it's disrespectful, arrogant, and belligerent to infringe on THEIR right to buy some fucking groceries without worrying about being shot.

Ultimately it comes down to this:

Do I think that kid had a right to carry the rifle in Walmart that should "not be infringed" upon? Yes.
Do I think he's an asshole for exercising that right inappropriately in a confrontational manner, for attention-seeking reasons? Yes.