Having just had a long conversation with my girlfriend last night, who is delightfully untouched by the horrors of the world and also has functioning emotions, about why she shouldn’t chew her fingernails until they bleed worrying about some random psycho murdering her while she spends my paychecks at a store, I have zero sympathy for this guy.
Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to describe it. I’d have been half tempted to choke his ass out just on GP. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six, right?
Body armor is totally legal. Why would one wearing it need to demonstrate intent?
There are a ton of these kind of guys on firearms and survivalist and prepped forums. Combine passionate open carry advocates with that and this is what you get.
His restraint? If he had shot the 20 year old, when the 20 year old had not broken any laws…he would be charged with murder (or at least manslaughter).
Nothing screams, “I am looking to start some ■■■■■ quite like wearing a very heavy, incredibly uncomfortable Kevlar vest in the middle of a Missouri summer to go, I dunno, buy milk and eggs.
I agree but I also doubt that it would stick? The question is, did he feel threatened and…was it a reasonable mindset, given the conditions? I believe a jury would say…yes.
Sounds like our Utah Resident open carry idiot has moved.
Here in Utah we had a guy who after every shooting would put his mini 14 over his shoulder (strap around head and one shoulder so it was on his back) and take a wander to a mall.
He was charged several times with disorderly conduct becuase of his behavior. And Utah is a strong open carry state.
Hopefully missouri has something similar they can hit this idiot with.
You know, it’s funny, everyone considers PA a liberal state but when I was a medic years ago a guy was waiting for his wife to come out of a 7/11 which was being robbed but he was totally unaware of it.
And when he saw a guy come out of the store with a gun in his hand (remember, he had no idea the guy was a robber), he wound down his window, double tapped the dude and wound his window back up to wait for the police.
Not only was he not arrested, I think he got a medal.
I live in what’s technically an open carry state (there’s no proactive law, it’s just not illegal) and we never have clowns like this. I just don’t get it.
Dis con is basically defined legally as anything that causes a ruckus. There is very wide latitude. And if the guy won’t listen, then you have him on disobeying a lawful order.