Guns at games? Say it ain't so...

[Rick Cleveland]

https://mississippitoday.org/2018/02/12/guns-games-cant-serious/

 

[Hankp22]

Thanks for the article and you're 100% correct

I cannot believe people will actually support HB-1083.

I appreciate your article.

Edit: I am not getting into this debate. I'll only add I think the proposed legislation is asinine.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

Look out Guvnah. You’re about to take some heat from folks who can’t settle disputes normally.

 

[hatfieldms]

Good article. And I agree, I have no idea what they are thinking down in Jackson by trying to push this through. So damn stupid

 

[RocketDawg]

Rick, I believe you said you've been gone a while. There were a couple threads on this subject from a few days ago that you might find interesting:

http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/show...ink-this-is-a-good-idea&p=1452779#post1452779

and

http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/show...background-info-for-you&p=1453094#post1453094

Personally, I don't see how anybody could think having guns at sporting events, where tensions are high anyway, in the classroom, or anywhere on campus is a good idea. It just amazes me.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Here we go again....

 

[HuskyBDawg]

So, if I'm understanding Rick correctly, this bill would help to insure that no phantom charges are called against the Bulldogs at the Hump.

 

[wsjmsu75]

Good article. And I agree, I have no idea what they are thinking down in Jackson by trying to push this through. So damn stupid

Sad thing is, our legislature may be stupid enough to do it. I mean, look where most of our politicians got their "education".

 

[blacklistedbully]

I'm a gun rights advocate. This bill is stupid. It will cause us all kinds of trouble with sports programs, and for what...so a private citizen can carry their weapon into a stadium and not be without their gun for a couple of hours?

If you don't like the idea of going to a game that won't allow guns, don't go to the damn game! Nobody is telling you that you can't protect yourself when on the streets, at home, etc. They're just saying your right to carry is not extended to the university facilities where there are many other possible outcomes much worse than the one that your gun might solve.

I don't view it the same as if you are going to the store, traveling, etc. But there is not a reasonable expectation that you will need one at the events being described, and you truly do have the choice to not attend. The potential of something bad happening by the carrier, regardless of what course they passed, etc, is greater, in those environments, than the potential something will happen that the concealed carry person might be able to prevent above and beyond what the trained professionals (peace officers) could handle.

Preventing guns in these environments is no threat to our right to bear arms as envisioned by our Founding Fathers.

 

[patdog]

So, if I'm understanding Rick correctly, this bill would help to insure that no phantom charges are called against the Bulldogs at the Hump.

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.

 

[Philly Dawg]

If more GERMANS had guns, could they have stopped the rise of the Nazi party?

 

[JoMo MoJo]

You need to re-read WWII history. The German people were primed and ready for the rise of the Nazi Party. Guns would have made no difference. The German people were morally and philosophically bankrupted by the sanctions imposed on them following WWI. Hitler, an Austrian, was able to come in and benefit from the people’s desire to be reunified under a common goal. To blame the rest of the world for their problem’s. The people who could have made a difference were German elite’s who had ties to the Kaiser and were well armed. Hitler realized this though and bought their loyalty by making them high-ranking officers in the Wehrmacht.




ETA: sorry. Read it as “they could” instead of “could they”. At least I know my European history.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Well, that went right of your head like a zinger.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

If more GERMANS had guns, could they have attacked Pearl Harbor without bombs?

Fixed it for you.

 

[the dog is on the loose]

My biggest concern is that at a major sporting event that somebody’s gun will accidentally discharge and kill someone. It happens a lot with people just handling them as it is.

 

[JoMo MoJo]

See “Pinelake Gun Incident”