A guy open-carrying gets robbed - of his gun.
Poetic justice, no?
If only he’d even more guns he could have … I got nothin’
The next big thing will therefore be “open-brandishing” – carrying a gun, openly, in your hand, and pointing at everyone whom you encounter. That way, no one will ever rob you of your gun!
I can’t stop laughing. 
After “open brandishing” goes on for a while, someone will be robbed of their openly brandished gun because they were snuck up from behind and a gun jabbed into their back.
Which will start “team-open-brandishing”, in which two or more Open Brandishers crab walk, back to back, pointing their guns in all directions, such that every arc is covered.
You are 5 posts late to the party.
Well, Damn, I clicked on “View First Unread” and nothing came up.
OK, how about this one?
Memphis cop has his gun stolen from the men’s room at a shopping mall.
In the Lawful Gun Owner Until He Does Something Unlawful / Having Guns In The House Increases The Odds Of Being Shot department …
Doctor, and “gun enthusiast” (with a federal firearms license), shoots and kills his bride (literally; they were married earlier that day) then kills himself next to his gun safe when the cops close in and evacuate the house.
In New York City they call it “wilding”.
Well, I thought the NRA was all for people being able to have whatever guns they wanted, whenever and wherever they wanted, but they supported having serious penalties for any resulting mayhem.
Looks like I was right about one out of two.
Unless you’re using a gun in justifiable self-defense, my take is that you should be legally responsible for whatever damage results from any of the bullets you fire, because in all other situations, you don’t need to fire any bullets at all. You’re engaging in an activity that carries the potential of causing great harm, and doing so completely by your own choice, without any necessity, and without any benefit to society at large. If you’re going to do something like that, then AFAIAC it’s up to you to make extra special sure that nobody’s going to be harmed when that bullet goes wherever it goes.
And even if you don’t buy into the above as a whole, then surely you must do so for gunplay in a location where there are other people’s residences within the range of your bullets.
Back in the heyday of urban gangs, people used to make a big deal about how bullets would sometimes go into people’s houses and apartments, and someone could get killed that way, and wasn’t it awful and we need tougher laws to throw young black hoodlums in prison forever.
And AFAIAC, urban or rural, people really shouldn’t have to worry about bullets going into their houses, or whizzing through the air in their yards.
Relates to GamerGate: Anita Sarkeesian was set to speak at Utah State University. USU received death threats promising “the deadliest school shooting in American history” if she did.
I don’t suppose she considered getting vetted permit holders to volunteer as bodyguards? Having fifty open-carriers at the ready might have made Internet Tough Guy reconsider.
Yeah, what could go wrong with that? :rolleyes:
It’s categories! Internet Tough Guys (note the capitalization) are a completely independent set from Open Carriers/Heroes. It’s a white hat mentality. In fact, it’s a White Hat Mentality.
YASS (Marysville-Pilchuck HS in WA, 1 fatality + shooter suicide), sorry not to have something more interesting to contribute.
Edit: duplicate
But yet, if the open carrier would have shot the robber we’d have a entire thread dedicated to criticizing stand your ground laws and how the guy open carrying should be charged, etc.
This one is too good not to share even if it’s a “defensive gun use”.
But it gets better:
Good hunch, officers. 