A Florida Cop’s Explanation Of The Miami Beach Police Open Carry Incident
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 5 months ago
TTAG, from a cop:
Not all police are bad, mind you. Some truly fight hard and are on our side. But you, the People of the Gun, need to understand why Miami Beach happened.
Just like the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the gay rights movement of the 1990s and 2000s, gunowners need to continually fight for their rights. Sometimes the end result will be what we saw in Miami Beach.
The fight, however, is the same: opposing oppressive authoritarians restricting the civil liberties and rights of honest, law-abiding Americans. We can’t hide in the shadows. We need to be open, loud, and stand strong in the face of this kind of intimidation.
Read the whole thing. There’s a lot there. Rather than fisk this entire article, I think it would be better to turn it over to readers to do that.
However, I’ll make one observation. Lumping us in with other alleged civil rights groups like gay rights is insulting. The right to keep and bear arms is a right granted by God and merely recognized in the constitution. Other such rights may or may not exist and you can make your case for or against them.
But we’re not just a group of malcontents bent on recognition. God has decreed and ordained that we should be victorious because what we do is based not on marches and protests, but entirely on the immutable Holy Writ.
On July 9, 2018 at 1:22 pm, moe mensale said:
Having formerly lived in Florida for 30 years, I’ll agree with almost everything the writer said. The connotation of Florida being so gun-friendly is completely absurd. He’s absolutely correct about the culture driving things there. For the most part, it’s an imported culture. Mainly from the Midwest on the Gulf side and New England, NY and NJ on the Atlantic side. The number of cops who retire up north and relocate to FL and a new agency is astonishing. And they, cop and non-cop, bring their prejudices with them.
I see the writer also mentions Phil Levine, the democrat frontrunner for governor. I mentioned in the original thread that I thought Levine may have been behind the pier fiasco as a grandstanding move.
BTW, “gunshine state” was coined back in 1987 by the illustrious legislators, including a lot of republicans, who were vehemently opposed to the proposition of passing “shall issue” conceal carry. It still actually carries very negative aspects by the way the gun grabbers use it. Why FL gun owners think it makes them look good is beyond me.
On July 10, 2018 at 2:24 am, Dan said:
There ARE NO GOOD COPS. There are ONLY BAD COPS. The bad cops who lie, steal, commit perjury, assault people and generally act worse than Hitlers SS……and the bad cops who observe all of this criminality by
their associates and DO NOTHING.
On July 10, 2018 at 10:54 pm, Longbow said:
My question would be… and it is so very simple,
Where are all of these “good guy” Cops who are “on our side”, when their brothers of the Gang are doing the wrong thing?
You know, Vast Majority, and all that.