re: Baw tests FL's open carry laws on public beach

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Yes he is protecting our rights. The first amendment audit videos were an eye opener. My first instinct is always 'why give a guy a hard time' but in reality these are LEOs who are wholesale abusing our rights because they got a wild hair up their arse. They need to know that we have rights and some of us still like them. Overall Im pro police, but do recognize that their power needs to be checked and our elected officials are incompetent imbeciles. So who is left to check that power?

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Same story for me. I was wrong and admit it now. I thought these were weirdos who wanted trouble bc it’s so much easier to just comply and do as told. It was actually one of those videos where the Chief came out to the scene and apologized to the guy then chewed out some asses. It made me think I wish more were like that and my thought process completely changed.

Regardless of how silly someone looks or how it’d be so much easier to not ruffle feathers, allowing LE and govt employees to abuse their powers and violate our rights to “keep the peace” is a far greater threat to society than those who expose and challenge the tyrants.

The more people like us who explain why these people are doing a huge service to defend our liberties, the more mindsets we will change. People here may be arguing and denouncing this man’s actions but seeds are being planted in their heads and eyes are being opened.

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I honestly agree. There are some very good 1, 2 and 4A audit channels who purposely check and record for the reactions. Turning the education of law right back onto the very guys who are sworn to uphold it but don't know the laws themselves. One really good one is Audit the Audit. They just take other vids and break them down to determine who is right or wrong. Case law, commentary, outcome, the whole deal. Amazing stuff and educational.

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I’ll check those out. When you start seeing the videos of professional govt employees it will change how you feel about these videos. And in most of these videos the person expresses their appreciation by thanking them for setting an example & passing the audit.

We’ve been conditioned to see citizens as the bad guys for causing trouble when the reality is that the govt is the troublemaker abusing their power.

These comments are so refreshing bc we’re witnessing a shift against tyranny.

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It’s this kind of behavior that causes everybody to suffer. Yes, he is using the literal wording g of the law to make an absurd statement on his 2A rights. Common sense interpretation of that law is that a citizen and have their pistol strapped on while doing such things as traveling to and from their destination for sporting activities. A boat ramp or while going to a hunting camp. It’s pretty common sense. Wearing an AR15 on Clearwater beach while carrying his fishing pole with the Don’t Tread in Me flag is just being an a-hole. Clearwater Beach is a Park as are all beaches in Florida. The city of Clearwater has every right to trespass him from that location. If his makes a public spectacle of himself then the have probably cause to arrest him for Disorderly Conduct as it is a misdemeanor being committed in the presence of a police officer. It’s guys like this jackass that screw things up for everybody else. Flame away.

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Sadly, people with your mindset have been around since the beginning of time and always will be. They even gave our Founding Fathers a lot of trouble for rocking the boat. I for one am grateful for the 3%ers who are willing to do what the majority isn’t and that our forefathers ignored the dissenters and chose dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

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The left is not only winning but they’re kicking our arse. This mentality of being the better person is exactly why we’re losing. It doesn’t matter how honorable we are.... they will steamroll us. They have one goal and it is to destroy us to achieve permanent one party rule over the world.

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This need to "score points" and live on "gotcha" moments in social and mainstream media are what have killed society. Doing more of it won't fix anything.

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If the guy was black and open carrying you’d have a problem with it.

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What? If this wasn't sarcasm, holy shite.

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This need to "score points" and live on "gotcha" moments in social and mainstream media are what have killed society.

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You assume I disagree with that?

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Doing more of it won't fix anything.

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You’re delusional if you really think the left cares how honorable you are. In fact, the reason we have an entire generation who hates America & believes they can force their will on us by eradicating our rights is because we played nice and didn’t take seriously the evil threat we were dealing with as we watched the Marxists infiltrating the DOE.

We sat back and did nothing as they gradually infiltrated and took over every major govt agency. And while trying to be the better person we naively believed they couldn’t be that bad, even as we watched Obama/Clinton/Biden purge patriots from the top brass in our military and replaced them with radicals who embrace Marxism.

And yet here we are with so many who STILL foolishly believe we can rationalize with this enemy.