Armed open-carry protestor was a suspect in the Dallas shootings.

[pnwmom]

And he was lucky he was only a suspect. In the dark, in the midst of the shootings, he was lucky that he didn't get gunned down by a police officer who mistook him for an active shooter..

What is the purpose of open-carry? It's so you can defend yourself in situations like this, right? Whip out your gun and defend yourself and others from people with guns. And yet what if he had drawn his weapon? He might have just aimed it at ANOTHER open-carry activist. In any case, the police could have been justified in shooting him.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/09/open-carry-activist-labeled-suspect-in-dallas-shooting-says-police-defamed-him.html

As soon as the shooting started, "I told him, `Give your gun to this cop because we don't want an accident. We don't want them to come around the corner and see you with a gun and start shooting at you,"' Cory Hughes told CBS 11.

The Hughes brothers claim Mark Hughes was held for 30 minutes before he was released.

Hughes said police questioned him about why he wanted to shoot officers, adding that they told him witnesses saw him firing the rifle. That "is a lie," Hughes said.

Hughes told CBS 11 that he was "defamed" by police. His identification as a person of interest has resulted in "thousands" of death threats on Facebook, he added.

[tblue37]

1. Besides, his gun wasn't even loaded, so it was just a prop for a stupid

self-centered display.

[applegrove]

2. There were lots of open carriers in that crowd that night. And it led

to reports of multiple gunmen all over the place. Which confused police. Which may have resulted in more deaths and wounded as police resources were spread over a greater area of the downtown.

[rockfordfile]

3. Who didn't see that coming