Duh...you were at a gun show, right?
Slightly different situation than someone carrying it in a random store...
I bought my first AR-15 at a gun show in downtown Indy. I had to walk 3 blocks to get back to my car and the vendor at the show didn't have a case (and I was out of money to buy one). So I carried it by hand to the car, past multiple groups of people and police.
No one cared in the least.
Jesus Christ, some of you guys are stupidly paranoid.
And also apparently incapable of understanding simple statistics.
The number of homicide victims shot with a rifle (of any kind) in the United States is roughly ~350 per year. Across the entire country. Of roughly ~312,000,000 people.
You're far, faaaar more likely to be a handgun homicide victim (although, even that possibility is relatively tiny compared to more common causes of death like cancer or heart disease). Would you clutch your panties and run out of a store screaming if you saw someone with a handgun on their hip?
Why not just admit, the media, modern society and Dianne Feinstein have trained you to wet your pants every time you see a modern sporting rifle?
Again, you're incapable of doing simple math, and worse...now you're projecting your own flaws and fears on other people.Some nut could remove it from your person and do damage. All for what? to show you have the right to carry? an asshole imo.
Sorry, but it's not. You're surrounded daily by firearms seen and unseen in public and private places; your chances of getting shot are extremely low if it's a handgun and almost non-existent if it's a rifle.The probability you're looking for is this: given that you already see someone wielding an AR-15 in public, what are your chances of getting shot by said gun? I'm sure it's a high enough percentage that it's worth getting out of there.
I guess it would depend on how he was carrying. If he had it slung like the guy in the picture I wouldn't worry to much but if he had it shouldered and ready to go, I'd be a little worried.
Duh...you were at a gun show, right?
Slightly different situation than someone carrying it in a random store...
Jesus Christ, some of you guys are stupidly paranoid.
And also apparently incapable of understanding simple statistics.
The number of homicide victims shot with a rifle (of any kind) in the United States is roughly ~350 per year. Across the entire country. Of roughly ~312,000,000 people.
You're far, faaaar more likely to be a handgun homicide victim (although, even that possibility is relatively tiny compared to more common causes of death like cancer or heart disease). Would you clutch your panties and run out of a store screaming if you saw someone with a handgun on their hip?
Why not just admit, the media, modern society and Dianne Feinstein have trained you to wet your pants every time you see a modern sporting rifle?
Just because more people are shot with handguns doesn't mean that we should be more afraid of them. Assault rifles are, unarguably, more dangerous than handguns. The statistics gap is borne from the situations in which each is more likely to be used, and the people that carry them. Put me in a room with the same person with a handgun and an assault rifle; I know which one I'll be more worried about.The number of homicide victims shot with a rifle (of any kind) in the United States is roughly ~350 per year. Across the entire country. Of roughly ~312,000,000 people.
You're far, faaaar more likely to be a handgun homicide victim (although, even that possibility is relatively tiny compared to more common causes of death like cancer or heart disease). Would you clutch your panties and run out of a store screaming if you saw someone with a handgun on their hip?
Why not just admit, the media, modern society and Dianne Feinstein have trained you to wet your pants every time you see a modern sporting rifle?
Sorry, but it's not. You're surrounded daily by firearms seen and unseen in public and private places; your chances of getting shot are extremely low if it's a handgun and almost non-existent if it's a rifle.
You might as well put a down payment on a Ferrari tonight, because the odds you're talking about make winning the PowerBall next week sound like sure thing.
You can't legally open carry in NYC. Could that be why? :whiste:I've lived in NYC for about 13 years. I have NEVER seen a pistol or rifle being shown in plain sight in a public place by a civilian.
I am not projecting anything. What is the reason for carrying it in the first place? Because he can? Thats just stupid. You say "Simply" carrying a rifle. Whats simple about it? What is the need? again, just stupidity. Just because you can doesnt mean you should. In NYC its legal for women to walk around topless. yet none do because its stupid to do so. I understand your right to bare arms, but dude, its 2013, there is no need for a militia.Again, you're incapable of doing simple math, and worse...now you're projecting your own flaws and fears on other people.
How does simply having a rifle on your back suddenly fill your local grocery store with "nuts" and "homicidal maniacs" intent on committing murder?
You can keep digging that hole, or just admit you've been brainwashed.
I'll respond to this in detail later, but for now this is a placeholder. I just didn't want you to edit out your contradictory statements.Just because more people are shot with handguns doesn't mean that we should be more afraid of them. Assault rifles are, unarguably, more dangerous than handguns. The statistics gap is borne from the situations in which each is more likely to be used, and the people that carry them. Put me in a room with the same person with a handgun and an assault rifle; I know which one I'll be more worried about.
You can't legally open carry in NYC. Could that be why? :whiste:
Is this discussion NYC specific or did I miss something?
Depends on the state.The likelihood that you see someone carrying a rifle in public is extremely small.
This Pavlovian response you people have to seeing a firearm in public is embarrassing. The media has you convinced there's a Loughner, Holmes or Lanza waiting behind every door for you.