[garren]

Originally Posted by u crank

So what you are saying is that anyone, including criminals can walk the streets with an AR 15 strapped to their back and this is not a cause for concern. When this happens then you will really have cause to be worried about your constitutional rights.

Criminals already carry firearms illegally and will continue to do so if we (law abiding citizens) lose our rights to carry them. So this point is invalid and been debunked about a zillion times already. There will be less criminals shooting people if more people carry firearms. Notice how they shoot up people in places that are "Gun Free Zones" most of the time, and notice how most victims of gun violence were unarmed? They tend to shoot people who can't shoot back. Guns deter violence just like Nukes deter war.

So until I walk through the bank door and level my weapon at the teller I'm above suspicion? Wouldn't that be great?

I bet you wouldn't do that if you knew that most bank tellers were armed and that you'd never be able to kill more than one before getting killed yourself. Not too many people barge into police stations and shoot at the cops either unless they have a death wish. The same would be true if banks armed all their tellers and it was well known that you'd never get out of the bank alive with any money.

There are lots of things that arouse the suspicion of the police. Carrying an automatic weapon should be one of them. The day when it is normal for people to walk around with automatic weapons and the police do nothing is the day your country becomes Somalia.

I don't believe that at all. Remember, there's a difference between automatic and fully automatic. Most pistols today are automatics and not revolvers. Many hunting rifles are magazine fed semi-automatics as well and don't require bolt or lever action.

I can understand fully automatic weapons being banned for the common citizen but automatics, or semi-automatics, are fine with me. I can understand a cop having questions about the make and model of certain types of weapons. I saw a video recently of a guy carrying a H&K MP5 submachine gun. His was modified however to be semi-auto only and did not have the 3-round burst or fully automatic capabilities that the military and police SWAT teams have, so he was fine to carry it. I have no problems with cops questioning those weapons but they seem to be questioning any gun, even shotguns (and Biden told us we could have those didn't he?) which is ridiculous and nothing more than government harassing the people of this country for practicing their rights.