Armed "Protest" and customer intimidation in Dallas

[Beiruty]

That is not the right way to protest, I wonder why it is not on the news...
Coming like this to a business with long guns is not cool.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/07/01/arme ... yptr=yahoo

[Smokey613]

Looks like a violation of 42.01 of the Texas Penal code, specifically Section 8:

"(8) displays a firearm or other deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm;"

Try that here and you will take a ride.

[KLB]

At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.

[lildave40]

At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.

I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.

[TVGuy]

At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.

I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.

I believe it was "Black Power" and is reminiscent of Black Panther protests of decades past.

[Beiruty]

At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.

I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.

I believe it was "Black Power" and is reminiscent of Black Panther protests of decades past.

Isn't "Black Power" is a racist slogan?

[Soccerdad1995]

At best, this is extremely poor judgment. People like this make all gun owners look bad.

I dont think this was a gun support issue. If you listen at the end they are chanting Black lives matter. I feel this is more intimidation more than anything else.

I believe it was "Black Power" and is reminiscent of Black Panther protests of decades past.

Isn't "Black Power" is a racist slogan?

No your thinking of something else. Same last word, but a different first word, at least according to the PC crowd.

[vjallen75]

I am very surprised the officers choose to not arrest these "protesters".

I would think that after this:

Y’all allow y’all’s employees to pull guns on customers, you’ll aren’t gonna have no customers

That would be considering alarming and wouldn't it be considered a threat?

[Soccerdad1995]

Not having been there it's tough to know the exact demeanor and tone they used, but my first thought was that they were lucky there wasn't an armed customer in the store. A group of men carrying long guns and ordering everyone to leave the store could very easily have been mistaken as an imminent threat.

[Smokey613]

Not having been there it's tough to know the exact demeanor and tone they used, but my first thought was that they were lucky there wasn't an armed customer in the store. A group of men carrying long guns and ordering everyone to leave the store could very easily have been mistaken as an imminent threat.

My thoughts exactly. What if an off duty LEO had been inside at the time? Things could have gone bad really quick. This was definitely an act of stupidity on the part of the people carrying the rifles.

[Bitter Clinger]

Thugs.

[parabelum]

Thugs.

100%.

I just caught this thread and read the story. Makes me fume

My wife owns a business and we would never allow these losers to pull that thuggery in our store. Despicable.

[BurtG]

Show up armed, order everybody out, but considered a protest ?
Seems like there was an implied threat of deadly force if the customers refused to comply with their
demands to me. Why have the weapons otherwise ? They served to intimidate and threaten seems to me.

[JakeTheSnake]

If someone came to a store with guns and ordered me out, I would feel like I was being kidnapped. No?

[Abraham]

Wow!

Had I been a customer I'dve thought this either a criminal or terrorist action and would've responded...