A Heavily Armed Man Caused Panic at a Supermarket. But Did He Break the Law?
In states with permissive gun laws, police and prosecutors have limited tools at their disposal when a heavily armed individual sows fear or panic in public.
what a psycho country
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Not all such cases have ended peacefully. In 2015, a woman in Colorado Springs called 911 after seeing a man in her neighborhood with a gun. The dispatcher reportedly explained to her that Colorado was an open-carry state. Within minutes, the man went on a shooting spree, killing three people.
How come screaming "fire" at a theater is illegal. But showing up to the grocery with a shotgun, a rifle and 4 pistols isn't? Seem identical to me
Mr. Brant also offered an explanation for Mr. Marley’s conduct that day: He had acquired the guns and the body armor, Mr. Brant said, because he had felt threatened by someone in his neighborhood. On the day of his arrest, he had hoped to take his guns to a nearby shooting range but first had to run some errands, which included a stop at the grocery store. (Mr. Marley did not have a car, Mr. Brant said, which is why he was carrying the guns around with him.) While in the Publix men’s room, Mr. Brant said, Mr. Marley had taken out some of the weapons, including the rifle, to clean them after discovering that some guacamole he had bought had caused a mess inside the bag.
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Fellas, dont you just hate it when you have to clean your guns in the grocery store toilet because quac went down the barrel?
I think another point elsewhere in the article is that he is homeless. This somewhat explains having all these things on his person at the same time, and I think not wanting to leave them in the car is somewhat believable. Weird one though.
Dril tweet about budgeting but instead of candles it's firearms and ammunition
Washing a gun barrel off in a grocery stores sink while everyone is freaking out around you
God I love America
hey, a disassembled gun can't hurt anyone. If anything, a public cleansing ritual of the armalites machine spirit would cause less fear than not doing so, because it could shoot guac coated bullets if it wasn't being cleaned.
Pretty soon we'll be at a point where the average white American male is such an absurd basket-case that :dril: joins the ranks of satirists who can no longer compete with reality.
Remembering how a kid in Florida back in the 1990s got shot by police because the wrapper on his Three Musketeers bar looked like a chrome pistol, and Three Musketeers switched their wrapper design to the Italian flag colors for a few years.
Cops didn't militarize because people were shooting at them. Cops militarized because they lost control during uprisings from the 60s-90s. They used incidents like the North Hollywood Shootout to justify militarization, but then used it entirely to oppress poor and minority neighborhoods.
Open carry has a place, which is when you are trying to prevent fascists from storming a drag show or something. The mf grocery store is not that
do you really expect our armed comrades to take an extra trip when they need something from the grocery store on range day?
Mr. Marley did not have a car
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Asshole mf I went to school with was way ahead of this cringe shit and walked up and down the road in some town in bumfuck Texas with an ar back in idk like 2009 or something in a one man protest lol
There's like 800 laws they can arrest you for that amount to "Being weird, unusual, or black in public" so yes, he almost certainly broke several laws.
