Apparently the police think that’s what happened, unless the media also got that part wrong.
If you think you’ve got the real answers to your questions, spit them out.
Okay, Rawstory is admittedly not exactly politically unbiased. So here’s a second and more local source, an ABC affiliate in Biloxi.
There’s a quote from Police Chief Papania that I think makes a lot of sense.
That doe-eyed floozy in men’s wear looks good above my fireplace.
Also missing from the article is a really good souffle recipe, a detailed biography Yuri Andropov, and directions on how to set up a home theater. Really, the amount of information that’s missing from that article just goes on and on, doesn’t it?
Do you ever actually engage in any debates on this board, or do you exist purely to throw chaff into whatever discussion you stumble into?
So you’re withholding judgment until you get more information, at which point you will disregard it as probably inaccurate.
Chaff has value as animal fodder. doorhinge’s posts are somewhat later in the digestive process.
I was thinking of this kind of chaff, which, of course, is primarily useful in distracting people and leading them off-target.
Loading, racking, unloading a firearm is certainly more than ‘open carry’. It is Brandishing, it is an open threat in a public place and I see no issues with arresting him on those kinds of charges. I can’t tell you why this Sheriff decided otherwise other than fearing a bunch of nutcases descending on his town to prove some kind of wildassed point.
Police Chief Papania said a lot of things in that article, including the fact that he would have liked to have arrested them simply because he wanted to.
*While openly carrying a firearm in Mississippi is legal, Papania said this situation could have turned into “a very violent misunderstanding.”
According to authorities, the two men walked into the Walmart on Highway 49 around 8 p.m. Witnesses said the man holding the shotgun was actively loading and racking the firearm. Walmart does not have a policy about guns inside its stores.
“If I were in a situation where I’m in the store shopping with my family and I see an individual loading a 12 gauge, and racking it, I’m not coming to the conclusion this is good,” said Papania. “While the actions of these two men are sanctioned by state laws, what they did negatively impacted our community.”
Papania said his department’s resources were stretched thin while officers and the SWAT team responded to this situation.
According to Papania, no one was threatened, no weapons were discharged, no one was shot and police officials and civilians responded to the situation appropriately.
Gulfport police will not release the names of the men, because they did not violate the law.
“If there was something I could have arrested these people for, I would,” said Papania.*
Hahahaha. Distracting people by asking for facts. That’s a new one.
I guess the anti-firearms mantra of - Don’t let facts get in the way of a good anti-firearms story - is alive and well.
Your opinion seems to differ from the law.
So you’re reposting some of what I quoted, with some underlines.
No one said that the men broke the law. No one said that WalMart had a policy about guns in the store. So you’re simply emphasizing points that no one here is disputing.
What’s being debated is the wisdom of the current laws or lack of laws.
So you’re getting you afternoon exercise by jumping to conclusions and “trying” to pass that off as debating a topic?
Or the failure of the media to include the Who, What, Where, Why, and How of a properly written story.
Did you have any real answers to what actually happened before you reached your foregone conclusion?
Which part?
Can you give us a single example of a thread where you “asked for facts” and then accepted them when they were given?
Are you doing anything here except J.A.Q.ing off? You posted a bunch of questions-do you or do you not know the answers?
on a scale of 1 to 100 what do you think are the chances that this guy was innocently shopping for a firearm and that the sheriff/swat surrounded the store and searched the premises for some guy who was just shopping for a gun?