Monday, February 22, 2010

Gun Nuts Protest Against Sane Business Practices


The morning's paper has an article about a group of forty or so gun nuts that think they are making a statement about the Second Amendment. All they really do is show that they are a bunch of bullies (emphasis mine):

Clark said Sunday's gathering was prompted by what members perceived as improper law enforcement action against Sussex resident Joseph Schneider.

Earlier this month, a Wisconsin State Patrol officer approached Schneider at China Wok in Sussex and asked him to take his gun out of the business. Schneider, who said he has openly carried his gun many times at the China Wok in Sussex without a problem, videotaped the encounter and then left the restaurant.

The video clip shows the officer first asking the restaurant owners if they allowed guns in the restaurant. After appearing confused, the employees said no, they did not allow guns.

Just a couple of paragraphs above this snippet, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen*, explained why the gun nuts are wrong:
State law allows adults to openly carry guns, but not in businesses that ask them not to, places that serve alcohol, and not in school zones or public buildings. Last spring, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen re-affirmed in a brief the right of Wisconsin's residents to bear arms openly, saying that those who do so should not be subject to disorderly conduct tickets from local law enforcement.
The original gun man was in the wrong and should have just admitted it. Instead, we have the tin foil hat brigade marching around intimidating more businesses and customers, violating their rights in the pretense of exerting their own.

And to think that these are the same people that complain that society is going downhill and people's rights are being violated...

*None of this garbage would be even happening if Van Hollen would have just done his job and not played politics with people's lives.

2 comments:

  1. Lets be honest, Schneider got exactly what he wanted, his fifteen minutes of "fame." Why do you think he was carrying a camera to record his adventure?

    He and his buddies at the clubhouse have discovered that all one need do to be on television is pack heat. I doubt he is in such fear as to feel that he needs a 9 mm to walk the mean, murderous streets of Sussex, Wisconsin in broad daylight.

    If channel 6 sees the need to put him on television, isn't the bigger story the courageous 70 year old woman who dares walk into a chinese restaurant in Deadwoodesque Sussex completely unarmed? There's your tough citizen. Let's interview her and her knitting circle who insist, against all odds, on proceeding without any form of deadly force.

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  2. Did the owner of the restaurant call the police or was the State Patrol Officer soliciting from the employees whether or not they wanted the armed customer in the restaurant? I'm not sure the State Patrol Officer should have interfered unless asked by the owner of the restaurant.

    It would also be nice to know whether or not the State Patrol Officer knew he was being videotapped. Apparently...all these open carry nuts also carry video cameras with them when they go out among normal unarmed people.

    Aside from those points...I completely agree about JB Van Hollen.

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