Jackson Jambalaya

It is sad that cops are so poorly trained/ignorant of the law.

There is no reason to stop/harass anyone engaged in what is clearly legal activity...even if "someone does call in about it".

Carrying guns in open is perfectly legal in Texas. And just because it may make some people "uncomfortable" does not make this guy a zealot/off base.

Freedom.

It really doesn't help anything when people set up cops like that. I mean, who would not suspect a guy in a kilt with an assault rifle? Their job is tough enough already without trying to embarrass them on the Internet just to show you can. No win situation.

Straight up nuts.

...who would not suspect a guy in a kilt with an assault rifle?

Who would not?

YOU are part of the problem. The 'no win situation' is the result of your rush to suspect.

Classic example if a poorly-trained police officer. He had no right to even question the law-abiding citizen but once he did and the citizen refused, the knuckleheaded officer should have IMMEDIATELY told him he was free to go.

Just arrest the dumbass and let him sit in jail until he can ID himself. I support gun rights and own a lot wpns, but this bullshit of walking around with a AR15 is just stupid! Morons like this are just giving fuel to those that would disarm the public!

Just arrest the dumbass and let him sit in jail until he can ID himself. I support gun rights and own a lot wpns, but this bullshit of walking around with a AR15 is just stupid! Morons like this are just giving fuel to those that would disarm the public!

Sorry folks I am pro gun have been all my life and the AR-15 is one of my favorite weapons---that being said I have to ask what kind of ignorant prick in kilts would walk around with a weapon and no ID and refuse to say who he is---he could have been a terrorist---Cop showed incredible restraint probably should have tazed the dumb bastard to wake up whatever brain cells he had that were still living---Good job cop!!

Isis is chopping heads. F yes we should be asking questions when dumb Fs are walking around in skirts with assault riffles. If his skin was a shade darker none of you TP types would be defending him. You would proclaim our Christian heritage and call him a jihadist. But he looks like a redneck in a skirt so let's bash the cops. Really sad when we out our cops in this situation. God speed to them.

U. S Citizens are not required to carry ID's - with or without an assault rifle in their possession.

2:53 if you called 911 for police help and they did not respond I guarantee you would be raising HELL about it. It's idiots like you that make an officers job harder than it already is. It is their job to respond to citizen complaints regardless of the situation. Now grow up and live in the USA as a peaceful citizen or feel free to move to Africa.

And just exactly did the guy in the kilt accomplish besides showing his ass? Most people's problems are
self inflicted.

Using the police example in this video any citizen should be able to ask the police to ID people before they vote in order to prove they are not previously convicted felons.

So you think the officer should mind his own business until AFTER someone opens fire on a crowd of innocent bystanders? Just because a person has a freedom doesn't give them the right to "set up" a cop.

Lets start with law enforcement 101. What was the reasonable suspicion or probable cause for the police man to interact with the citizen. Did the officer say I recognize you as a felon I arrested last year? I think there is reasonable suspicion that you should not be in possession of that fire arm! No he did not. Houston Paid I would wager...

How do you "set up" a cop if you have no idea where they will be at any given time?

Dear Gawd,

If your up there and listening, please continue to provide coverage over this courageous soul spreading consciousness of 2nd amendment rights in this beautiful country of ours that is truly of the people, by the people, for the people, particularly and exclusively white people!

Because otherwise Fhather, this brave soldier in Krist should be dead from an illegal choke hold,shot dead in the open carry state of an Ohio Walmart for holding a toy gun, or even worse Jhesus shot while playing with an airsoft gun in a park within 2 seconds upon police arrival.

Life and Favor!

Bless this man's family also that through his temerity and recalcitrant nature that they never know loss, pain or suffering like so, so many others have with the fortuitousness of being born darkly pigmented like ERIC GARNER, JOHN CRAWFORD and TAMIR RICE!

Thank you in advance for the continuous protection of your 2nd chosen people!

Ahmen!

Have I been suspended or expelled because of my amazing whit and free speech humor. Can't seem to get my post printed.

The police officer has a valid point: without ID the police cannot know if this creep is allowed to as an AR 15 or is a felon. I would of guessed felon.

The "creep" went through a Federal background check before he was allowed to purchase the weapon and obtain a open-carry permit. You left out part of the process. The cop would have known he most likely was not a felon if he was carrying the weapon openly.

11:53 Yes, comrade. We must produce our papers to the polize...so they can make sure we are not criminals or otherwise attempting to needlessly offend others. Clear and open engagement in legal activity could make comrades (and idiots) uncomfortable. We can not allow people to make others uncomfortable.

Please bend over now so we can see what you may be hiding from us. Surely, you will understand
the importance of your compliance. Of course, you will have no problem with this...if you are doing nothing wrong.

If you have nothing to hide, all will be well.

Mr. Hitler has been so unfairly criticized for his wisdoms. If only the world had heeded his teachings we would not have all the problems we now face, right?

This stunt does not protect the rights of gun owners. It only inflames those who believe we should revoke those rights.

With such a nice assault weapon, he's lucky some thug didn't get him in a drive-by and take the weapon.

Let's face it. Any incompetent dumbass can be a cop.

It's no longer a respectable position.

It is not the police department's business, responsibility or obligation to determine whether people are legally in possession of a firearm unless a crime has been committed.

The police have no right to detain, search or require ID of someone simply to find out who they are or to run a rabbit trail of determining right to be in possession of a firearm.

Here are the wrong reasons to detain:

1) I think I'll ask for his ID just so I can look at it.

2) For all I know he might be a felon.

3) For all I know he might be a jihadist.

4) He looks goofy as hell in a kilt.

5) He could be loony for all I know so I'm going to harass him to see if he goes ape shit on me.

6) A lot of people don't like guns that look like this one.

7) He doesn't look or dress like most people.

8) He might not be from 'round here.

9) Dressed like that, he could be queer for all I know.

10) The man in the kilt (as some of you have said) is obviously an ignorant, dumbass, prick in a kilt, showing his ass.

11:24 pm Try to be rational and not an overreacting fear monger.

There was no such thing as " probable cause" in Nazi Germany.

If the dude was black with baggie pants in an all white neighborhood or a skin head and was tatted with swastikas in a Jewish neighbor, that shouldn't be probable cause to be stopped and questioned carrying an assault rifle?
How about a guy with a tin foil hat talking ?

What if this dude showed up with 6 of his carrying buddies, all of whom looked like they were wearing costumes?

Any of that probable cause?

That's what you gun nuts have given us.

You can't do rational , you've got to be the polar extreme of the crazies who want no guns.

Oh great!
8:01 is the right wing equal of the idiots on the left who have caused us to have to wait until a crazy person hurts himself or others!

Keep it up!

Keep putting guns too powerful be controlled by children in their hands at rifle ranges and getting someone killed.

Keep thinking shooting is " therapeutic" for your crazy son or for a veteran with PTSD and ending up with children killed in a school or dead veterans!

That those with zero common sense are controlling our political dialogue is killing us...literally!

How about occasionally considering that the rest of us have a right to be protected from the irresponsible idiots in this country!?!

@ 8:17 from 11:24

My post was immersed in SARCASM meant for the obtuse, as the contextualization would be too great to comprehend.

You get the prize!

But what is lost on so many of you 5/5th humans that proselytize your constitutional rights through legislation, propaganda and street shows that why you enjoy the fullness of equal protection under the law and constitutional rights to bear arms, so, so many others have their basic human rights infringed upon daily - GARNER, CRAWFORD and 12 y/o TAMIR RICE.

So bear your arms, teach your children to shoot at the local gun range and stockpile your weapons in the basement in preparation for the holy war or the race war, as we've seen what happens when your children stop taking their Adderall or Ritalin-Klebold/Lanza/Holmes.

But dear Gawd if you are listening and the rest of us are worthy, there will be more 5/5ths like Jason Hendrix from the gold star open carry state of Kentucky?

Some of you (8:55 for example) who are assigning the status of right wing nuts or idiot, bear watching. That you don't like the law is irrelevant.

As long as we are allowed to openly carry, you might just have to like it or lump it. The open carry statute doesn't just apply to rednecks in cammo with four wheelers tied in the back of a pickup. It also applies to the fellow in a kilt who carries no idea.

Don't like that? Take it up with your legislator. Although we are allowed to open-carry in this state, there is not yet any requirement that we dress a certain way and carry ID in order to exercise that right. And there is no requirement in this state (since we are no longer in the sixties) that we answer questions posed by a policeman when there is no reason for the stop or detention. Nor are we required to carry ID. Again; Don't like that? Get it changed, Harpie.

8:17 asks: "What if this dude showed up with 6 of his carrying buddies, all of whom looked like they were wearing costumes?:

You mean sorta like seven white guys who show up at a chicken place in an all black neighborhood, 45s strapped on, dressed head to toe in cammo and orange, all wearing shades with a chaw in their cheek?

Would that qualify as seven guys in costumes, carrying, who need to be bounced outside, detained and questioned? I see.

Good grief!
Y'all are truly nuts!

We get to complain about laws that we think are stupid and try to persuade others. I don't have to limit my free speech to calling only upon my elected representatives.

I notice more than a few restaurants ( and other businesses) have had to put up " no open carry" or" no weapons" signs because so many of you gun idiots ( like this asshole) have zero notion of when or what is appropriate and like to needle others just to be aggravating.

Y'all are all about your right to be idiotic and don't for one minute think you have to respect or be considerate of anybody else! It's your way and the rest of the world can get over it.

It ain't happening.

Your idiocy( and the extreme left's) is keeping us from being practical or rational solutions to any f'ing thing!

You all have the right to be useless assholes who think carrying a gun openly makes your dick bigger, but I get to harp at you! And, to let you know I'm not fooled by your effort at machismo!

I am a life member of NRA, staunch advocate of the 2nd Amendment, avid gun collector, owner of several AR style guns and have published articles against gun control. And this guy is a pure nut job. It is people like him that give the Nancy Pelosi's of the world ammo to pass gun control legislation. He is not a patriot or 2nd amendment advocate. He is a wacko, nut job that shouldn't be wandering the streets with a firearm of any sorts. Good job Mr. Policeman for taking the action you did.

March 1, 2015 at 12:49 PM = Appeal to Authority Fallacy

... who think carrying a gun openly makes your dick bigger

It does and I'm packing the proof.

The guy was obviously looking for trouble. Exercising his rights? Riiiiight.

These whackos piss me off. They are steadily, through psycho actions like this, eroding our gun rights because of stunts. Get a CCW. You're NOT going to prevent a crime, stop a crime, or engage the enemy walking around in a skirt with an AR 15. Because of the Open Carry zealots, more and more businesses are posting No Guns signs. Thanks, OC zealots. Now, we have to lock our guns in the car like Luby's in Texas because you needed to shine your ass, "get a badge number" and post this crap on YouTube. You might as well go with the skirt and call yourself Nancy Pelosi. I ran into some OC psychos in Jackson. Camo vests on with Glocks and 1911s in all their glory. Protecting our rights to eat spaghetti I guess. Thanks for the new No Guns posting guys. You're doing great.

The police officer was way off base and needs sensitivity training.

11:58 posts this nonsense: "I notice more than a few restaurants ( and other businesses) have had to put up " no open carry" or" no weapons" signs because so many of you gun idiots ( like this asshole) have zero notion of when or what is appropriate and like to needle others just to be aggravating."

First, you might want to assess your knowledge of the law. Posting a sign on a restaurant door does NOT remove the rights of the customer. Follow up on your misunderstanding, please.

Secondly, you're full of crap (already evident) if you think others will or should buy YOUR notion of what is right or appropriate. Who the hell are YOU?

MINDLESS SHEEP! In America the constitution gave powers to the federal gov. In the states their constitution gave rights to to state and local gov. Amendment X of the bill of rights says" The powers not delegated to the US by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." That means ALL things are legal. now,since all things shouldn't be legal ,we the people have given the gov. The authority to take away some of those rights (our represenitives) . These are called laws. Laws take away our rights, The gov has been taking away our right for 230 odd years.
Now!! The open carry law gave us back (WOW) our right to amendment II of the "Bill of Rights".
This a--hole as some of you called him tested said law! ( I think he had balls) as I don't have the funds to lose this test.
The cop did not know the law even though said cop was (my opinion) pretty reasonable and kilt guy seemed to be uncooperative (a--hole).
Just remember ( anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Also the Supreme Court says the police can lie to you.
So the law says you can walk the street with a AR-15 on your hip in Texas!
Whether your skin is Lilly white or charcoal black.
All this blathering you people are doing is irrelevant .
Remember: opinions are like assholes everybody has one and most of them stink!

Some of the people discussing this post don't know how our gov works. They think it makes sense to me but who said you had any sense your momma. Every law must go through your elected representative (Obama supporters) we don't have a king nor are we a banana republic( until now) the elected representatives of Texas voted on open carry it's the law of Texas get over it!
Please excuse punctuation, grammar and all other English errors as I was educated by a proud member of the teachers union!
PS: that's probably why y'all don't know s--t about American government

I just don't care any more. Newtown proved there is nothing that can be done to help us be safe from nuts with military-grade weapons. If all those dead kids meant nothing to you gun-suckers, nothing can ever happen to change your minds.

McDougal, your a idiot! Just because the jackass is walking around with a rifle - how the hell is the cop to know you passed a background check?? That's why they ask for a ID dumbass!!!!! I'm a member of the NRA and read what your rights are. Bag pipes and rifle should get his ass carried to jail until he ID's himself. With all the shit going on today, this jerk is stirring the pot on being a prick!

Unless he is breaking the law, the police have no right to ask for an ID whether he is carrying a corn dog or an AR-15. Read the constitution, knucklehead.

Oh, 11:35 is a member of the NRA. You and a million other people who got conned into sending in a donation in return for a window sticker for your truck.

Let's see now....the cop ordered the man to produce ID....so he could find out if he passed a background check? How would an ID show that? It wouldn't. But, you're a member of the NRA. And because you're a member of the NRA, you suggest 'Bagpipes' should be hauled to jail for refusing to ID himself. Did it go over your pointed head sixteen times when the above posts told you repeatedly that one is not required in the US to carry or produce ID?

There's a good chance that 'Bagpipes' is also an NRA member, which is also meaningless.

Just invision a black guy in a hoodie carrying the same weapon walking down the same street. Or an Arab complete in a turban and full length robe. Should they not
be asked for ID? Equal rights mean equal rights no matter what...

6:12 am You have the right to open carry but a restaurant owner doesn't have the right to require , oh, a coat and tie or shoes? I guess you don't eat out much! The gun is something you are WEARING!

And, for the government expert: My legislator is influenced by special interests, who contributes to his campaign, and what he needs to do to get re-elected. Influencing the electorate is part of the process as well. I guess you never heard of lobbyists.

Just because lobbyist are successful ( and the NRA leadership is living high on the hog by successfully making you feel threatened) , doesn't mean the tie can't turn or a backlash won't eventually occur.

As we have more examples of those who have undergone psychiatric treatment committing murder or our homegrown terrorists start shooting up Dodge City, the tide may well indeed turn!

And, federal law trumps State laws when the State start risking our national security.

If this American citizen had been all in black with only his eyes showing or been a woman with a scarf wrap around her head, it wouldn't make him or her have less rights to open carry, now would it ?

You've all decided that attire shouldn't be probable cause!

My guess is that behind whatever cover he's had constructed for him (NRA, Tea Party, whatever...), "Bagpipes" is a PLANT, from some entity which concerns itself with disarming the American populace. Bagpipes did a good job toward that end, too.

In any event, since the courts have established that it's fine & dandy to aim cameras up little girls' dresses at Target ("No reasonable expectation of privacy"), this old Cougar demands EQUAL COVERAGE. Why didn't someone aim a camera up Bagpipe Boy's kilt? I'd like to see what he's packin'. Strutting around on the sidewalk like that, he has "no reasonable expectation of privacy".

Thank you. That is all.

Bet many of you supporting the kilt guy took a much different stance on producing an ID when it came to Arizona's law "targeted" at illegals. When it's someone else being ask for ID, the general consensus is "just pull your damn driver's license out" or "how does anyone not have ID on them these days". Let a self-proclaimed Constitutionalist be stopped by a cop tho and it's a different story. The same crowd overwhelmingly supported voter ID laws, yet it's too much of an inconveniece to produce that same ID while wielding an AR?

PS...I own an AR along with many other guns and have my CPP. I also have a deep respect for law enforcement and realize that they are living on a razor thin edge. Cops' guards have to be up and it's damn near humanly impossible to be pleasant while dealing with the stress and unknowns of situations they face daily. Don't be that jerk that correlates producing an ID to a cavity search or producing Nazi issued geneology papers to the SS.

Been around many Kilt Boy types at local shooting ranges. They are the first to call out someone for leaving a chamber closed, not wearing safety glasses or some other minor technicallity. Mind you, they are calling out an adult acquaintance that cleared the membership requirements or has legally purchased an extra permit from the state after qualifying for the normal hunting license. Same guy thinks open carrying a hog leg .44 at Chuck-e-Cheese is a Constitutional right, tho.

You can check with the NRA as I once did on open carry. Although legal in this state, or else where in open carry states, you could be considered a public nuisance by the police.

When a cop asks you for ID you'd best produce it.

For those having a problem with my opinion, best get over it.

He wasn't considered a public nuisance by the police officer and the DA's office said let him go. He had a perfect right to do what he was doing.

Some folks are just asking to get kilted.

7:31; WE did not decide that 'attire should not be probably cause'. The Constitution did.

Just as your pointed head is no invitation for us to toss colorful, plastic rings at it, a person's attire is no invitation for the constabulary to harass us.

8:13 pm You are totally clueless.

You don't " get" the point .

You are simple minded and complexities escape you.

The point is that you and your gun nut buddies never contemplated the consequences of the open carry law.

You can't see or admit the need for any restrictions whatsoever.

Practicality and reality is not your strong suit.

You fail to see that it's possible to protect " your rights" without sacrificing the safety of the public at large.

So you've created an environment where terrorists can have it easy. They can even wear carry assault weapons down the street in full jihadist garb without impunity.

They can buy weapons with impunity even when the FBI or Homeland Security is watching them. In Mississippi, our legislature has made it impossible for federal agents to take weapons away from home grown terrorists until they engage in terror. Arms dealers have found a safe haven for moving weapons here.

But, it's more important for you to feel like a big man and show off your " gun", right?

Every Marine knows the difference between his gun and his weapon. The dumbest private will be made to understand. I'm sure you, however, are scratching your ass in confusion.

To the obviously young or forgetful posters in this thread:

Twenty years ago, one could walk around in the open with a long gun (rifle, shotgun, etc) and no one would pay attention. It wasn't a big deal because it was commonplace in the rural areas.

Teachers would take their long guns from their vehicle and bring them into the classroom. High school kids would have rifles much more lethal than the one in the video hanging in gun racks in the back window of their pickups. Those people were simply returning to school after hunting the morning before.

But..... during this same time one's right to carry a handgun concealed was removed. The right to have loaded weapons in one's car for defense was constantly challenged. In fact, up until 10 years or so ago, the "gun grabbers" would infer that only "sporting guns" were necessary for the private citizen. That no one needs a "military" weapon to hunt.

Police officers were also able to articulate their thoughts about why they detain and/or arrest someone. In other words, they would "profile" and individual and the person acting "strange" with a rifle strapped to his shoulder vs the average joe just walking from his car to his office are 2 different individuals.... the weapons didn't change the perception.

Now, as quite evident with posters to this article, people are conditioned to label someone carrying a rifle as a "zealot", "off-base", "nuts", etc. Actually this is simply the removal of critical thinking from our society as a whole. Reasoning is no longer common, and society operates, as a whole, as whether the peg fits the hole.

7:57am
You are totally clueless.

You don't get the point.

You are simple minded and complexities escape you.

The point is you and your gun control nut buddies don't understand the consequences of the open carry law.

You can't see or admit that criminals or terrorist don't give a damn about restrictions whatsoever.

Practicality and reality is not your strong suit.

You fail to see that while protecting my rights I am helping to protect the public at large.

We've created an environment where every citizen can be prepared when, I repeat WHEN, said terrorist , murderer, car jacker, ect. Breaks said restrictions (laws) without impunity.

If you have no record that bars you from buying a weapon there is no reason you can't buy one.
And the police can't arrest anyone until they engage in terror anyway.
And I'm sure arm dealers have flocked to Mississippi.

It's important for me to feel like a safe man, right?

Yes every Marine knows the difference between a gun and a weapon.

And maybe even a dumbass can learn "an armed society is a polite society"

Would you like to supersize that weapon, sir?

9:03 you can cut AND paste - congratulations!
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"Now, as quite evident with posters to this article, people are conditioned to label someone carrying a rifle as a "zealot", "off-base", "nuts", etc. Actually this is simply the removal of critical thinking from our society as a whole. "

"someone carrying a rifle and wearing a kilt" - FIFY - we see AR-toting kilt wearers all the time in downtown Jackson. Tes indeed.

Actually I don't know how to cut and paste: but thanks for the congrats as I do know how to win an argument with wit and sarcasm. Un like liberals who just start calling people names when their position is blown out of the water.

8:49 AM...spot on!