http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/23/1395813/-Mississippi-Police-Chief-comes-down-hard-on-open-carry-laws-after-Walmart-shotgun-incident?detail=email
Well, yes. Gulfport, Mississippi's Police Chief Leonard Papania held a press conference yesterday. He needed to discuss a disturbing situation that happened at the Walmart super center in Gulfport off of US 49. Two men walked into Walmart—which also houses a Winn Dixie and Krispy Kreme—armed with a shotgun and sparked a series of 911 calls to the police department.
According to authorities, the two men walked into the Walmart on Highway 49 around 8 p.m. Witnesses said the man holding the shotgun was actively loading and racking the firearm. Walmart does not have a policy about guns inside its stores.
“If I were in a situation where I'm in the store shopping with my family and I see an individual loading a 12 gauge, and racking it, I'm not coming to the conclusion this is good,” said Papania. "While the actions of these two men are sanctioned by state laws, what they did negatively impacted our community."
Negatively schmegatively, wah wah, freedom! But don't worry guys, everything is all white here, and no one got hurt. I'm making the educated guess of...white. The SWAT was deployed but the men were long gone. Using store cameras the police were able to track down the men and concluded that they had broken no laws.
"If there was something I could have arrested these people for, I would," said Papania.
“Gun laws should be such that it provides us security. As we look at this fact pattern, do you feel safer?”
Safer schmafer! The defense rests!
When you consider that only a few years ago Mississippi was crowned second place in United States gun deaths, it can come as no surprise that law enforcement in the fun-to-spell state must really find it hard to pretend they feel that the Constitution's Second Amendment should work this way. Good on Chief Papania for at the very least, mentioning the fact that these open carry laws are dangerous.
Oh yeah, this isn't the first time this has happened at this Walmart, in this town, this year.
blame all around law makers for implementing the carry law btw was there a vote or just republicans tell them what they are going to allow but what is the point of open carry i don't remember any crime or anything foiled by somebody with a AR-15 over their shoulder. i know they have stats saying crime has gone down but is that the perception of the other guy being strapped or because he was strapped who knows i don't recall any news that some carry guy thwarted a crime.
then there are the people they obviously let the laws stand guess they could justify having a gun in the bar Sat. night drunk and that same gun in church Sun. morning while praying to God. and Walmart for allowing people to come in with them given their history of negative actions due to guns even murder they are right vat to top with the lawmakers, it also shows preference to gun zealots and not those innocents patronizing their stores, i would find a store less detrimental to my life low price life no brainer for some anyway.
