"The restaurant has a strict no weapons policy unless the gun owner has a concealed carry permit and keeps the firearm quietly hidden from the eyes of other viewers. A security guard apparently asked Worley to leave. When he refused, one of the employees phoned police. Worley was arrested shortly thereafter." http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/open-carrier-arrested-after-causing-panic-vancouver
The video makes it sound like he was charged with walking in the parking lot of a venue with a no gun policy. This made me initially wonder how he could be charged with trespass there if it wasn't posted. The above clarifies things. If a property owner asks you to leave and you don't, that is trespassing.
Based only on what I saw on this video clip, I'd say the young man was wrong. A property owner is well within his or her rights to tell someone they may not carry a weapon onto the property.
While I frequent merchants who support Second Amendment rights by allowing people to carry weapons on their property whenever possible, there's not always such a merchant available. Still, I have never carried a weapon onto the property of any person or institution that says "no." In those circumstances in which the "no" was delivered after I entered the property, I have always apologized quickly and left the property promptly. If I returned, it was without the weapon. To do otherwise would violate the owner's right to control his or her property.
It is my belief that property rights are essential to freedom. As such, they are to be respected. It doesn't matter whether I agree with how the property owner manages the property. If I find the restrictions too objectionable, I simply refuse to go there. I don't advance the cause of freedom by violating another's rights in an effort to promote mine.
One can't do that because the cause of open carry is a total loser. Only some gun owners think it's a good thing. The rest of gun owners and everybody else see it for what it is, adolescent-minded men bucking authority.
And Rosa Parks could have gone to the back of the bus. It's just such a shame when people stand up for their rights, especially when they break no laws in doing it.
"The restaurant has a strict no weapons policy unless the gun owner has a concealed carry permit and keeps the firearm quietly hidden from the eyes of other viewers. A security guard apparently asked Worley to leave. When he refused, one of the employees phoned police. Worley was arrested shortly thereafter."
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The video makes it sound like he was charged with walking in the parking lot of a venue with a no gun policy. This made me initially wonder how he could be charged with trespass there if it wasn't posted.
The above clarifies things. If a property owner asks you to leave and you don't, that is trespassing.
Based only on what I saw on this video clip, I'd say the young man was wrong. A property owner is well within his or her rights to tell someone they may not carry a weapon onto the property.
ReplyDeleteWhile I frequent merchants who support Second Amendment rights by allowing people to carry weapons on their property whenever possible, there's not always such a merchant available. Still, I have never carried a weapon onto the property of any person or institution that says "no." In those circumstances in which the "no" was delivered after I entered the property, I have always apologized quickly and left the property promptly. If I returned, it was without the weapon. To do otherwise would violate the owner's right to control his or her property.
It is my belief that property rights are essential to freedom. As such, they are to be respected. It doesn't matter whether I agree with how the property owner manages the property. If I find the restrictions too objectionable, I simply refuse to go there. I don't advance the cause of freedom by violating another's rights in an effort to promote mine.
How does one do good to the cause of open carry from your point of view, Mike?
ReplyDeleteOne can't do that because the cause of open carry is a total loser. Only some gun owners think it's a good thing. The rest of gun owners and everybody else see it for what it is, adolescent-minded men bucking authority.
DeleteMikeb, if you knew what you were talking about, you'd be dangerous.
DeleteIf it is done legally, then it is not bucking authority. What about then?
DeleteAnd Rosa Parks could have gone to the back of the bus. It's just such a shame when people stand up for their rights, especially when they break no laws in doing it.
ReplyDeleteHe broke the law.
DeleteSo did she.
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