Rittenhouse Verdict

[Alan]

It's fascinating to me to learn that all of you live in neighborhoods where hunters go walking down the street with long guns strapped to their chests as a matter of normal behavior. I guess Denver, Miami, New York City, suburban NJ, San Francisco and suburban Bay Area are all a different world from the various places everyone on simple living lives because I have never in my life seen anyone other than a cop, and occasionally rent-a-cops, carrying a gun around.

It's fascinating to me that you've spent your entire life in the few spots in this country where open carry is not allowed. What are the odds?

[jp1]

It's fascinating to me that you've spent your entire life in the few spots in this country where open carry is not allowed. What are the odds?

It's remarkable isn't it. Although probably not so remarkable when one considers that legal open carry was much less of a thing when I lived in Denver, Miami and New York City. But no, I didn't do research and plan this. I just wound up in these places because opportunities arose in each place so I went. (well, except for Denver unless one considers being born an opportunity that they took advantage of...) I guess some of us are just lucky. To be fair, though, just as many people have a black friend or a gay friend or whatever, I do have one friend who likes guns. Since he lives in the bay area he doesn't take them out in public though. Just to the shooting range and once or twice a year he drives down to Phoenix to visit his brother and they go out on federal land and shoot stuff.

[Tradd]

I’ve open carried in small town western Michigan a few years back when I was with a friend who was open carrying. We’d been at the outdoor range, went to Walmart to get some drinks and snacks with our holstered carry pistols on our belts. No one said boo. I didn’t even think much about it.

You don’t dare do that in IL.

[Teacher Terry]

I lived in rural upstate New York where many people hunted in the 70’s, Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin and now Nevada and never have I seen anyone open carry. If I ever see anyone doing so I am leaving immediately. Hunters I know put their hunting rifle in the car when they are going you guessed it hunting.

Considering that 2 motorcycle gangs got in a shootout in a casino once during the big motorcycle festival the casinos now forbid people to wear colors affiliated with their gangs. I stay out of the casinos during the motorcycle festival. Some of the restaurant in them have great food but I can go other times. Even when I have been to small rural towns in Nevada I haven’t seen people wearing guns.

[ToomuchStuff]

It's fascinating to me to learn that all of you live in neighborhoods where hunters go walking down the street with long guns strapped to their chests as a matter of normal behavior.

In the "old days", of my late boss (would be 61 this year), and my parents time frame, hunting season, would see people have deer rifles in their vehicles, even in the school parking lots. Heck my parents generation people worked on them in school, and one school, I am told, had some in it, for their ROTC program.

Now, if someone had deer rifle in their vehicle, the schools would be locked down. Also people are more apt to carry them, then have them stolen out of their vehicles.

[bae]

I was allowed to have firearms at my high school. I couldn’t keep them in my dorm room but was allowed to check them out for use. Now, the school at the time owned all the land to the horizon, and then some.

[rosarugosa]

It's fascinating to me to learn that all of you live in neighborhoods where hunters go walking down the street with long guns strapped to their chests as a matter of normal behavior. I guess Denver, Miami, New York City, suburban NJ, San Francisco and suburban Bay Area are all a different world from the various places everyone on simple living lives because I have never in my life seen anyone other than a cop, and occasionally rent-a-cops, carrying a gun around.

I think you can count MA as being part of that different world. I too have only seen police carrying guns.

[Rogar]

I've not observed open carry around here. It used to be some would have the EZ rider rifle racks in pickups in rural areas, but not any more, probably due to theft. Lauren Boebert, a congresswoman from my state owns a cafe in Rifle, Colorado where the waitresses all have open carry pistols. She also subscribes to QAnon theory.

If I understand current law, I could not have a concealed weapon without a permit, but could legally walk around with an AR? When I go hunting with a shotgun behind the seat I suppose it might be illegal as a concealed weapon, but I'm not sure where the law stands on that.