True, Wisconsin residents are not legally required to hand over an ID simply for possessing a visible weapon, but we suggest they do it anyway. [More]
You know, cede to unlawful demands backed by unlawful force out of "respect" ...
And no small amount of fear and unnecessary endangerment that could be avoided altogether.
Cal-Guns recently
helped out a guy but concluded this:
We do not encourage Unloaded Open Carrying of firearms in urban areas at this time...
Why?
Until that day, these officers had never heard of the burgeoning Unloaded Open Carry movement, in which persons entitled to possess firearms exercise their right to lawfully carry unloaded, holstered handguns...
That is inexcusable. And the solution should not be giving up even more rights because the "Only Ones" are ignorant of their duties and in violation of their oaths.
What's the best solution?
This should work, quickly, cheaply, easily and effectively.
Put the responsibility and accountability where it belongs. Why the idiots at the
JournalTimes don't realize respect is earned, as opposed to mandated through implied force, "diversity" propaganda, etc., is yet another self-evident fail on the part of "progressives".
I'd add one thing: How hard would it be for the state AG to also issue a press release explaining the law to the "Authorized Journalists," who, after all, for the most part just parrot what the agenda-drivers feed them anyway. Maybe if they also did their job and informed the public, some of the knee-jerk hysteria would die down.
[Via RW and Jrp1947]