re: Cop stands up to gun nut in Texas.

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I just don't see the harm in subjecting people who want to open carry rifles in a crowded city to questioning and being asked to ID themselves. Is it an infringement on the right to bear a firearm? Absolutely. Is requiring one to provide an ID to vote an infringement on the right to vote? Absolutely. In both instances, I think the slight infringement is far outweighed by the potential negative consequences that could follow if the safeguards are not in place.

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And hence why the courts have allowed Congress and legislatures to pass some measures related to both - "regulation" meaning rules created to makes some exercise "regular."

Personally, the guy wearing a kilt was the most disturbing part of the video.

I don't think open carry should be illegal, but it seems kind of stupid when I see people doing it. Seems to me that when the psycho nut job storms into the Cracker Barrel to kill every jagof in there, that hog leg on your hip is either going to make you his first target or make everyone expect you to jump up and go all OK Corral on his arse and get yourself shot by either the psycho or the amped up cops responding. To each his own, I guess.