First up, the anti-gun politician. An epic fail (thumb on trigger) on the floor of the state House no less!
Virginia Lawmaker Brandishes AK-47
Second, the pro-gun citizen. Good example of safe and proper firearm handling in a crowded shopping mall.
Photo of JC Penney shopper in UT with rifle strapped to back, strikes a nerve
http://news.yahoo.com/video/photo-man-jc-penney-shopper-230414356.html
Who’s the bigger threat???
They are both dipshits of the highest order.
Agreed.
At least Dipshit #2 doesn’t have his thumb on the trigger. Dipshit #1 should stick that thumb back where it belongs. 
Agreed.
no ones giving a crap in the second picture or cowering in fear
Do you think his little ego exercise did fuck all for anyone?
True, but when you look up dipshit in the dictionary it still says Joe Morrissey.
That guys sole purpose in life is to get his face in the media at any cost. He is currently playing two fronts that keeps him in the news. Ban weapons and ban red light cameras.
just find it funny people are criticizing him for doing what is 100% legal and put on the same level as an anti gun politician with incredibly unsafe gun handling. If this was a well dressed women everyone would be drooling over her instead of calling her a “dipshit of the highest order”
I’d call her a dipshit too.
Ditto. Just because you can doesn’t make it prudent. What he is doing is not only tactically unsound, but does nothing to win our side any points. Imho it’s counterproductive.
I don’t “NEED” my Semi-Auto Rifle any more than Rosa Parks “NEEDED” to be in the front of that Bus.
I stand by the gun in the second photo in exercising his rights, however, like my liberal political science teacher said yesterday:
“I don’t need to walk around with an AK-47 for my protection.”
Perception, folks, perception.
I’m going to a Guns Across America event today. I can’t shake the feeling in the back on my mind that I don’t want to see rifles slung across shoulders there. The media and Hollywood and the liberal left have made all this a stigma in modern society. Hell, it used to be a standard sight seeing rifles in gun racks in a pick-up. How many of those have you seen lately?
No matter who you talk to, no matter what group it is, even gun guys and “Second Amendment supporters”, NOBODY* is ever okay with other people choosing differently than themselves. I see it over and over on every gun forum. People who choose less (not to carry, carry a smaller gun, only carry some of the time, think they have no benefit to a defensive rifle etc) are unprepared sheep. People who choose more (spare magazine, multiple spare magazines, a BUG or two, concealable body armour, trunk rifle, etc) are paranoid and over-reacting.
People who conceal carry only often look at those who choose differently (open carry) and get all pissy while they rant on about how, according the them, the open carrier is on an “ego trip” or is a “tactical hazard” or is “making us all look bad”. Nevermind that they are a gun enthusiast carrying a firearm in a legal and SAFE manner using the method of their choice. They chose DIFFERENTLY and are therefore wrong. And need to be derided and insulted for doing so.
So he took it a step farther and walked around with a rifle. So? If the store has a problem with it they can ask him to leave. Maybe they’ll call LE and have them do it, if they choose. Either way what the hell business is it of yours?
So maybe you don’t think it’s a good idea. Okay. Fine. Don’t do it. Maybe tell other people why you don’t like it. But I don’t see why you need to result to personal insults.
Grow up.
*Except Libertarians. They seem to understand this whole “people can choose as they like, so long as they aren’t harming others” deal.
PS: A quick Google showed this:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55649700-78/yorgason-carry-store-gun.html.csp
"On Thursday, 22-year-old Joseph Kelley identified himself as the man in Yorgason’s pictures. Kelley described himself as a firm believer in Second Amendment rights and said he decided to bring the guns to the store to demonstrate that they are not dangerous in the hands of law-abiding citizens.
According to Kelley, the rifle was an unloaded AR-15 and the handgun was a loaded Glock 19C. He said he has a concealed-carry permit, is a former member of the military and contacted police dispatch before leaving his home to tell them about his plans. Kelley also said he was told that he was “well within his rights” and that bystanders’ reactions were positive."
The guy in the second picture did something legal. What is wrong with that? Also, the area he is in, Riverdale/Ogden, is smack in the middle of one of the most conservative areas of the country. Except for the woman interviewed by the decidedly liberal Yahoo news, no one probably gave a shit.The vast majority around here are pro-2A and I bet he wasn’t the only armed person in the store.
I will continue to call idiots out for being idiots that make the rest of us look like idiots. Carrying an condition 3 AR in public to “educate” people is like a mouse trying to rape an elephant.
Based on the apparent “majority” view of “assault weapons”, I’m truly shocked that the AK didn’t seize the moment and spray bullets all around the Virginia House. Was the AK overcome with conscience and choose not to? Or was it enthralled by the oratory and missed it’s chance at 15 minutes of fame? We may never know…
I really don’t know what you’re ranting about. I don’t care how much or how little you carry as long as it wirks for you and is tactically prudent (open carry is not, particularily not an unloaded rifle slung behind you). It just so happens that dipshit #2 choose to wander around carrying his weapons in a tactically unsound manner AND to make a political point which is actually hurtful to the image and perception of the gun community. No one is saying that he can not do what he did, only that it is not prudent.
As an example, James Yeager had the right to spout off the stupid crap that he did but it was NOT good for the gun community. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Most folks over the age of two understand this. You’re the one that needs to grow up.
Ahh, smoke’en Joe Morrissey. He was the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Richmond when I was in high school. Even back then he had a thing for guns. He went on tour of high schools with a mini-arsenal of seized illegal weapons to show the kiddies the dangers of the world. Some of you Richmond natives might remember that he “lost” some of those weapons. For the life of me, I can’t remember if they were ever recovered. Anyway, It’s good to see that he got his law license back after smashing that man’s head in…