News, Man Decides World's Busiest Airport Is A Good Place To Openly Carry A Loaded AR-15

[Wittgenstein's Ghost]

Originally Posted by armory

Means what?

It means there is no law prohibiting you from taking a given action. If I am "exercising my right" to free speech, all that means is that there is no law (and can be no law) preventing from speaking freely. It's an empty phrase that has somehow come to be held dearly.

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Does Cooley have the tactical training to prevent it?

It doesn't matter, because tactical training is not necessary for one to successfully aim and fire at a threat. Tactical training includes matters such as response planning, team roles/movement/communication, door breaching, building search, room clearing, etc.

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Is that specifically why he went to the airport?

Did you not read the article or the OP? Both specifically say that Cooley went to the airport to drop his daughter off for an outbound flight.

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Now, last year in Texas, some people carried rifles openly as a specific (and legal) protest for the right to carry handguns openly. But most agreed that the reason they were exercising the right to carry their rifles openly was to agitate for the right to carry handguns openly--they didn't actually have a desire to carry rifles openly as a general practice.

Irrelevant, unless you can prove that Cooley was a participant in those activities.

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Now what, exactly was Cooley attempting to accomplish?

Again, the article states that the purpose of Cooley's trip was to carry his daughter to the airport so she could catch a flight.

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Does he routinely walk around with a carbine on his back everywhere he goes?

I don't know. Nor do I care, because he's well within his rights to do so.

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by NOLA101

I wish the U.S. were so lucky to have "anti-gun nuts". It would be a much safer nation if that were true.

As proven by the incredibly low murder rates in jurisdictions that have strict gun-control measures, like Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, DC.

Originally Posted by NOLA101

And proliferation of guns does not "give people the tools to be free". It makes them and their families MUCH less safe.

Is that why the murder rate in Switzerland, where possession of fully-automatic rifles is encouraged by the government, is one of the lowest in the world? In 2010, Switzerland had 40 homicides by firearm - in a nation of 8 million people.