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"Innocent guys" don't walk around with rifles, you fucking asshole. Dude should at the very least be charged with reckless endangerment.
Edit: I got a couple of things confused because I misread the article, including, but not limited to, thinking the shooter's dad was claiming the shooter was innocent, which is what I was responding to. Today's not my day for reading comprehension, apparently.
I get what you’re trying to say, but Utah is a “constitutional carry” state. Meaning that he was legally allowed to open carry whatever firearm he wished as long as he didn’t point it at anyone. In this case I think the law is more reckless than the individual.
To add to that, look at pictures of the pro Trump protests in Utah around Jan 6, many of them openly carrying assault rifles, none of them shot. I don't like guns or open carry but the difference in reaction is stark.
You're right. There's definitely a double standard going on. I misread this article at first and thought it was a pro Trump person pointing their rifle at a crowd, so I thought this was finally one of them actually facing a consequence, but I see I was wrong. Either way, we are far too loose with guns and i don't think approaching any crowd with a gun raised is a smart idea.
Agreed, while I fucking hate the fact that certain individuals have decided that the right to bare arms is more important than the right to life, it is still their right. I disapprove of limiting rights based on which individual uses them. The Utah Legislature needs to figure out if the right to carry firearms is for everyone or go the route California did and ban it because individuals they didn’t like started arming themselves.
Yup. IIRC, the NRA didn't really get influential until minorities started arming themselves and organizations like the Black Panthers started to appear. Then all of a sudden these 2A clowns are all about gun control... For certain individuals.
Zero chance Utah does anything like California on guns. Utah Mormons are prepper gun nuts.