Man Decides World's Busiest Airport Is A Good Place To Openly Carry A Loaded AR-15

[Jeff]

OK so what do y'all think, I am all for the 2nd amendment and all for you shouldn't even need a permit to carry the 2nd amendment is your permit, but I also think sometimes you can push things a bit to far, if this guy was truly worried about his and his daughters safety a handgun in a holster would of worked just as well. Honestly all I think he has done here is to push the law makers to make a new law, sometimes it is best to leave well enough alone.

The video's are almost funny, this guy certainly carried this gun just to annoy the police.

A Georgia man openly carried a fully loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest in the world.
Jim Cooley was armed with the weapon -- complete with an extended capacity 100-round drum -- when he went to drop his daughter off for a flight last Friday. Following the enactment of new state legislation in 2014, it's actually legal to carry a rifle in the open in the airport, so long as the holder doesn't attempt to pass through airport security.
Multiple police officers approached Cooley while he was in the airport and asked about the weapon, after which he replied he was carrying it for safety. Officers can be heard talking with Cooley in videos of the interactions he later uploaded to YouTube.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...usaolp00000592

[jimnyc]

He was within the law. But he's also just doing so to fuck with people. Claiming "you never know what may happen" is bullshit. Look, I LOVE knowing that folks open carry and such. I actually feel better when I go south and see so many people with guns, I feel safer. But the people who purposely gain knowledge, then walk around with automatic rifles in areas they KNOW they are going to be stopped and possibly harassed? How come we don't see a ton of folks walking into their local restaurants with an AR to sit down and potentially scare people? Because it's dumb, and these people want to eat! They have no intent to eat when walking around the streets or an airport, other than to provoke, IMO.

But in the back window, on the inside roof, or other places while leaving the home? I take no issue with that at all. I really have no issue with guns whatsoever. I love them! I just don't understand the people that have a desire to fuck with the cops and TSA purposely.

[Jeff]

He was within the law. But he's also just doing so to fuck with people. Claiming "you never know what may happen" is bullshit. Look, I LOVE knowing that folks open carry and such. I actually feel better when I go south and see so many people with guns, I feel safer. But the people who purposely gain knowledge, then walk around with automatic rifles in areas they KNOW they are going to be stopped and possibly harassed? How come we don't see a ton of folks walking into their local restaurants with an AR to sit down and potentially scare people? Because it's dumb, and these people want to eat! They have no intent to eat when walking around the streets or an airport, other than to provoke, IMO.

But in the back window, on the inside roof, or other places while leaving the home? I take no issue with that at all. I really have no issue with guns whatsoever. I love them! I just don't understand the people that have a desire to fuck with the cops and TSA purposely.

Some push the envelope when they should leave it alone.

[darin]

I think I'm okay with it. The more folks are exposed to weapons the less stupid they may be when voting for laws restricting them.

[Balu]

OK so what do y'all think, I am all for the 2nd amendment and all for you shouldn't even need a permit to carry the 2nd amendment is your permit, but I also think sometimes you can push things a bit to far, if this guy was truly worried about his and his daughters safety a handgun in a holster would of worked just as well. Honestly all I think he has done here is to push the law makers to make a new law, sometimes it is best to leave well enough alone.

The video's are almost funny, this guy certainly carried this gun just to annoy the police.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...usaolp00000592

I think that everybody must feel how lucky they are, that the idea to have a loaded Hand Bazooka and a pair of grenades did not come into his head.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

OK so what do y'all think, I am all for the 2nd amendment and all for you shouldn't even need a permit to carry the 2nd amendment is your permit, but I also think sometimes you can push things a bit to far, if this guy was truly worried about his and his daughters safety a handgun in a holster would of worked just as well. Honestly all I think he has done here is to push the law makers to make a new law, sometimes it is best to leave well enough alone.

The video's are almost funny, this guy certainly carried this gun just to annoy the police.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...usaolp00000592

"If you don't exercise your rights," he said, "the government doesn't have any hesitation to take them away."

Well at least he is right with that statement and somewhat right in doing what he did. What he did was show people that obeying the law is being questioned because our own government(hidden power within) dislikes many of our laws and almost everything in our Bill of Rights.
I do not say do what he did but he made a good point. I also do not think the cops checking him out were wrong. He could have been a crazy out to do harm.
What he did had good points about it and bad points IMHO.
We would not have this crap if government had truly targeted the true terrorist religion that set all this off- instead they cater to that stinking so-called religion and decide to hassle the rest of the American public while they granted special fast forward immigration status to certain muslim countries.
They did it assbackwards and did so for a reason. That reason is why that man did what he did(even if most of which I think he should not have done)!
I am so damn right on this it hurts..--Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I think I'm okay with it. The more folks are exposed to weapons the less stupid they may be when voting for laws restricting them.

Thats certainly the best part of what his action accomplished. That and it reignites more attention on how fast law abiding citizens are approached and questioned with impunity while the same authorities have protocol that protects the real enemies(muslims) and even at airports the women can wear apparel to hide their faces and /or objects etc.
I am not aware that any muslim woman has been pulled aside to do cavity searches , or extra inspection the way they do the rest of us-if thats true -it proves my accusations made about the special prefered status given to the very people(muslims) that did 9/11..-Tyr

[Balu]

You are sticking to the 2-nd Amendment to your Constitution, which came into force in 1791, while the Eighteenth Amendment adopted in 1919 was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933. What I want to say - the time is passing, the laws MUST correspond and suit tor the present time requirements.

[NightTrain]

Isn't it amazing that the gun didn't start killing people?

He was well within his legal right to do it. Personally, I wouldn't have done it in an airport... you're just asking for trouble there.

And I'm pretty sure that all of the people that saw this and panicked are firing off emails by the dozen to legislators. I think there will be repercussions.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

You are sticking to the 2-nd Amendment to your Constitution, which came into force in 1791, while the Eighteenth Amendment adopted in 1919 was repealed Twenty-First Amendment in 1933. What I want to say - the time is passing, the laws MUST correspond and suit tor the present time.

Basic foundation being destroyed is not a sound strategy. Therefore supporting the leftists here that seek that result is folly.
The right to defend ones self shall not be obliterated. For if it is, the Republic falls flat and rather quickly.
Having not ever had the freedom and rights we now take for granted you are lacking in first hand knowledge and experience to give a high value criticism of this subject. Sorry, but ignorance(no insult, ignorance = lack of knowledge) of a subject counts.
You are free and welcomed to express that opinion just as we are to consider the source and the level of knowledge existing within that source.
No insult intended at all. -Tyr

[jimnyc]

I hope no one confuses my stance on this with gun rights. I too think we should have all the rights on our side. And while I think his actions were ill advised, it WAS within the law. I just see little point in purposely fucking with the various law agencies just to kinda get a response. There are endless ways to carry a gun more and more without poking at the law in a situation that may scare people, similar to those who walk down "main street" in their communities just so that endless citizens call it in because they're scared.

Doing something to purposely rile people up and get a response. It's like trolling the community with weapons.

I DO see the point in trying to make the people less freaky about seeing guns, and to educate them and such. I just disagree that this is the way to do it.

[darin]

What I want to say - the time is passing, the laws MUST correspond and suit tor the present time requirements.

Yup. We may wanna make it law that every age 21 citizen must own a handgun. Or ratify the amendment to change the wording to something like "to protect citizens from a dangerous government..." etc.

[Jeff]

Isn't it amazing that the gun didn't start killing people?

He was well within his legal right to do it. Personally, I wouldn't have done it in an airport... you're just asking for trouble there.

And I'm pretty sure that all of the people that saw this and panicked are firing off emails by the dozen to legislators. I think there will be repercussions.

That is what I am thinking, yes what he did was legal but now that he had to push their hands they will make tougher laws, as for those saying he just showed it was legal, I remember Noir posting a video of a guy refusing to open his window to talk to a police officer, he was pulled over at a road side check I believe, the liberal thought was he was in his rights to do so, my thought back than was why push the envelope, do as they say and get on out, seems like almost the same thing here, all this guy did is get the law makers looking at the rights we now have here in GA.

[fj1200]

That is what I am thinking, yes what he did was legal but now that he had to push their hands they will make tougher laws...

I'm guessing he's not a long-term thinker.

[Gunny]

I think that everybody must feel how lucky they are, that the idea to have a loaded Hand Bazooka and a pair of grenades did not come into his head.

Was that supposed to make sense? If so, you missed the mark. I think the same thing about people carrying weapons as I do bigots -- I like you on display so I know who and what you are.