Judge expands ruling that bans guns in Capital Area District Library (Michigan)

[jpak]

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110309/NEWS01/103090321/Judge-expands-ruling-bans-guns-Capital-Area-District-Library?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

A court order that bars people from openly carrying a firearm onto Capital Area District Library property will stand until at least June.

Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina on Tuesday broadened a Feb. 16 ruling to now keep anyone from openly toting firearms on the library's grounds. Her previous restraining order had applied only to members of Michigan Open Carry or associated people.

"I wish I could say that you could all carry weapons wherever you wanted, but I can't say that," Aquilina said during a hearing attended by gun rights advocates and library officials. "I do believe the library can regulate whether weapons come in or don't come in the library."

Library officials requested an injunction to bar people from openly carrying firearms on the premises in February, after four incidents since December where people believed to be members of Michigan Open Carry brought firearms into the building.

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Open carry = poliical intimidation

yup

[lawodevolution]

1. Open carry = open display of rights

Their purpose is to desensitize people to seeing firearms and reminding the of the 2A. Intimidation is when someone is holding the firearm and aiming it in a threatening way.

[jpak]

2. Most people disagree and don't want their kids around open carry guns in the library

sanity

yup

[lawodevolution]

3. You seem to think most people support your views but every time I post a poll

Here to see what people think of an issue they opposite to you views

The shall issue vs may issue, over 90% think shall issue is better

[jpak]

4. A gun poll in the Gungeon does not see the light of day and only gungeoneers vote in them

If you could post a gun poll in GD, the results would very different.

yup

[lawodevolution]

5. Everyone has acess to the gun forum in DU

And the poll was placed where the debate is, the results of the debate are reflected in the poll

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Rights are not subject to veto by those who disagree with them

unless you want to take a large step back in terms of civil liberties

[WatsonT]

7. So the incidents were not shootings

or even real intimidation.

Just that people utilized the rights they had?

I wonder how you think we should address our voting problems in this country what with millions of incidents of people voting *every single year* with impunity!

[ileus]

8. people need to stop being paranoid of life saving equipment being carried openly

[spin]

9. We do seem to have a number of paranoid people in this country ...

that are absolutely terrified of those who legally carry firearms in in open or concealed.

Curiously, they often think that those who do legally carry are paranoid and fearful and afraid to leave their house without a firearm. Such people remind me of the jealous husband who suspects that his wife has to be cheating on him mainly because he is cheating on her. I suspect these individuals suffer from irrational fear and can't understand that other people don't, consequently they accuse people who carry with also having a phobia.

Obviously out of sight is out of mind and I doubt that anyone ever suspects that I carry a firearm. If I were legally allowed to carry in the open and chose to do so, some of the same people that pay no attention to me when I carry concealed would overreact and feel threatened.

Since I have no desire to intimidate or disturb people, I prefer concealed carry.

Florida is considering a law this year that would allow open carry for those with a concealed weapons permit. I will probably continue to conceal my firearm. One big advantage of the new law for me would be that if the wind blew my jacket open and someone noticed my holstered firearm, I would no longer be in possible trouble with law enforcement.