The Salt Lake Tribune Whines About Guns
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 10 months ago
“People openly carried guns, even assault rifles, to the recent gun rally at the Capitol,” a Friday opinion piece titled “Gun Rally Smacked of Fascism” in The Salt Lake Tribune whines. “The reason for brandishing guns is hard to fathom.”
If they were actually brandishing them, it would be. Except Utah criminal code is quite clear that:
“‘Threatening manner’ does not include: the possession of a dangerous weapon, whether visible or concealed, without additional behavior which is threatening…”
Not only does Utah suffer from the progs who have relocated there to the large cities such as Salt Lake, but you need to remember that both the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the LDS church are viscerally and irrationally opposed to gun rights. Utah isn’t as friendly a state for gun owners as you might think they would be because of the strength of the LDS.
Oh, both of those groups allow for LEOs to have weapons, but as for people who aren’t “the only ones,” they are deeply opposed to firearms ownership or use. I recall asking an LDS friend once about guns in his church and what would happen if an armed intruder came in and started shooting families.
His response centered around off-duty LEOs who were members of the congregation. No one else carries. The church leadership is deeply opposed to it. I’ve also had this conversation with a JW, insofar as it was possible. He was much more emotional about it, but in line with his church’s beliefs, which means deeply opposed.
I pity the gun owners in Utah, but their pleas might fall on deaf ears, not just with the pols, but with most of the people too, at least as many who identify as LDS.
On February 25, 2020 at 8:16 am, Bob said:
I’ll present a word to the wise, hoping it’ll be sufficient.
My LDS church ward introduced me to guns and got me interested in them. A later ward I was in continued that. My friend carries every Sunday in his ward, at the behest of his stake president (equivalent of the diocese leader). The church bans on guns in chapels always come after the news reports some negligent discharge. As my old bishop used to say, “We need to excommunicate some lawyers.”
On February 25, 2020 at 10:54 am, Wilson said:
Salt Lake area gun clubs have had regular trips into downtown for many years, I remember them from 15 years ago. Men and women would open carry, families with young children would go. Almost never any issues. Few people even gave these people a second glance. The purpose was to keep people acclimated to seeing firearms and it worked.
The people complaining now are transplants from out of state. Its the usual ploy, change the demographics with immigration.
On February 25, 2020 at 2:26 pm, Fred said:
Talked to a JW last week. Asked if they knew that they were going to heaven. Reply: I’m a JW…let me see your bible (yes, I carry a bible), to which I said you’re not touching my bible, to which they used a modern slur against God by way of exclamation. End conversation.