The Virginian-Pilot
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More than 50 gun-rights advocates descended on the City Council on Tuesday night to complain that their rights have been violated by Norfolk police. Many wore pistols on their hips.
They were spurred by a police confrontation involving a man carrying an unconcealed weapon, which is legal in Virginia.
Members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League claim that Danladi Moore, a Peninsula resident, was recently harassed three times, the last time in September while attempting to ride an HRT bus with a gun.
That was after the city paid Moore $10,000 in July to prevent what could have been long and costly litigation after he had been stopped by police the first two times.
“We simply want the city to educate the police so they don’t continue to do this,” said Philip Van Cleave, a Midlothian resident who heads the group.
Councilman Paul Riddick responded: “If our police need to learn more about the laws, I think they’re willing to.”
Riddick also said that in light of increasing gun violence in the city, police have a responsibility to respond to calls involving firearms. Debbie Messina, (757) 446-2588, debbie.messina@pilotonline.com
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The Only
way gun bearing could be an innate right is if the Supreme Being made guns. He never has. Anyone, thinking the "right" to carry & use of an instrument which is made solely for the purpose of killing someone or something, is an innate "right", has no rational thought processes. Actually, 1 insisting on open carrying in public is more likely to be attacked by a person going through gang initiation than 1 who doesn't open carry. The act of accosting an obviously armed person makes the gangster want-to-be seem even tougher to his or her peers.
Hey Gertz!
I question who you are referring to as sexist since you were the one who brings up the subject of ones manhood and little boys with their toys. It looks like to me you have pronoun trouble.
sexist
"I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love."
deadly force
Shoot a purse snatcher? it depends. Do you fear for the life of the victim? Here is Texas, we only have shall issue concealed carry. Use of Force is 'spelled out' in our Penal Code. I tell crooks, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Basically the VCDL wants the Police to do their job. I am sure their job doesn't include harassing law abiding citizens, knowingly committing false arrests and other acts of Official Oppression.
I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
Americans.....
Americans,
These are your rights; they are being tested, and taken, one step at a time.
Words to live by
My daddy always told me: "You ain't brave without a gun, you ain't brave."
I'm pretty sure I know what he'd say about people who needed to take a gun to libraries, council meetings, festivals and such.
wrong again twomiler
The right to bear arms is innate and inalienable. It does not come from the amendment. The amendment acknowledges the right and protects it from government infringement.
I think it is more the
I think it is more the inability of LEO's maintaining their own composure in knowing the law and the illegality of hassling these people in the first place. They don't know the difference between a right and a privilege. You don't truly know the backrounds or personalities of anyone who has posted here. It is irrelevant whether or not if one has something to hide. Why do you lock your doors or close your curtains? So it is OK with you for government to go on an Easter Egg hunt for no reason? Could it be you have something to hide? That is just as obsurd as Negroes getting government permission to sit at a lunch counter or the right to vote in the 1960's. Your sense of freedom is severly flawed. If you read The 2nd Amendment there is nothing in there about restrictions. The "right of the People" is the same people in the preamble in The Constitution. There are some LEO's, judges, and former LEO's (if we can b
that's not your decision
"no more saving the world for u today Superman... Err Superwoman"
Trust me, that is not your decision and never will be.
last post today
haha sorry sir. Err ma'am, I don't recall "wisdom" being a space when filling out my paperwork or when posting anything on here. Go buy some goldfish and relax, no more saving the world for u today Superman... Err Superwoman LOL