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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Thu Aug 28, 2014, 05:45 PM Aug 2014

If Michael Brown had looked like this would he have still been shot?

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If Michael Brown had looked like this would he have still been shot? (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2014 OP

Yes, but he would not have made it to the sidewalk. BrainMann1 Aug 2014 #1

If blacks open carried, maybe police would think twice. I don't know, but these guys weren't shot: NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #2

Probably much the same as the guy with the bb gun in Walmart and by a SWAT team. gordianot Aug 2014 #3

You got that right! FarPoint Aug 2014 #4

BrainMann1

(460 posts)

1. Yes, but he would not have made it to the sidewalk.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2014, 05:49 PM

Aug 2014

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

2. If blacks open carried, maybe police would think twice. I don't know, but these guys weren't shot:

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2014, 05:50 PM

Aug 2014

Which is not to say I support open carry, mostly it looks like a bunch of losers.

But that doesn't mean that the Second Amendment is dated or worthless.

These guys didn't get shot, but it did lead to Daddy Reagan's war on the Second Amendment in California.

gordianot

(15,237 posts)

3. Probably much the same as the guy with the bb gun in Walmart and by a SWAT team.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2014, 05:56 PM

Aug 2014

FarPoint

(12,351 posts)

4. You got that right!

Reply to gordianot (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 28, 2014, 08:06 PM

Aug 2014

John Crawford was shot in the toy department of Walmart in Beaver creek Ohio....a suburb of Dayton.

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