Shelzin
Equal Opportunity Asshole
- Jul 15, 2012
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Just because you are protesting doesn't mean you can do it anywhere you want. Certainly not on private property.2a, you and I usually agree on most issues regarding the second amendment and gun rights but this is just stupid. They did so many things wrong.
1. While they certainly have the right to protect themselves and their property, they weren't using their weapons in self-defense, they were using them to intimidate the protesters.
I don't even know why that matters. I don't care.2. According to the news story I heard earlier this evening, they told the police that they grabbed their weapons BEFORE there was any perceived threat
To protect your property. This doesn't happen in a vacuum. Have you been watching what has been going on in the world today? People are burning shit down.3. If a person is in fear for their lives, why leave the relative security and safety of their home to move to a place where you're out in the wide open, where the perceived threat is?
Photos: 4 Police officers shot, buildings looted, fires set in downtown St. Louis riot
After a peaceful afternoon protest in downtown St. Louis events turned violent as darkness fell on Monday, June 1, 2020. Four police officers were shot. A 7-11 at 201 N.
www.stltoday.com
They were on private property.4. The guy, who is an attorney elucidated this scenario he had worked out and was running through his mind, that the protesters were going to abandon the protest and instead harm and kill him & his wife, burn their house and kill their pets. Instead, it is alleged that they merely walked past on their way to their stated destination.
The whole gated community is private property. The government owns nothing within it. They don't take care of the streets, they don't own the sidewalks.. Nothing.5. Also it is alleged that they were trespassing because they were in a gated community, but I haven't seen a story that indicatess that they were on the private property of the couple, just the common street/sidewalk of the gated community.
Most of the "protesters" were white. Right?You know, if they had been standing there with their firearms in the low ready position, no onw could have said anything at all about that being that they were on their own property. Their mistake is that they were pointing their weapons at the people as they were passing by and of course that is a big no-no. While I'm surprised that they pre-emptively confiscated their weapons, they have no one to blame but themselves. They could have easily held their ground while armed but they screwed it up due to their fevered imaginations based on their inherent fear of black people.