Gun rights advocates aim to take firearms into zoos
Source: Newsweek
June 27, 2017
Harriet Sinclair
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Gun rights advocates are demanding people be allowed to carry firearms into public zoos nationwide.
Their calls for packing pistols while viewing caged animals setback on Friday, however, when a judge in St Louis ruled in favor of retaining a ban on firearms at the St. Louis Zoo.
"The zoo has shown that the safety, patronage and image of the zoo will be compromised if visitors are permitted to carry firearms or other weapons on zoo property, which would significantly harm the level of visitorship, as well as the mission, the public image and autonomy of the zoo as an institution," Judge Joan Moriarty wrote in her ruling, which was seen by the Associated Press on Monday.
Judge Moriartys ruling, in which she found the zoo gun ban was not unconstitutional, upholds a temporary ban that came into force in June 2015, after Ohio gun rights activist Jeffry Smith said he was planning go into the zoo with a group of armed people in order to challenge the zoos gun ban.
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Initech
(100,063 posts)Matthew28
(1,797 posts)Everything is about God, guns and death to them. They're cancer on our society.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)And is a stomach that looks as if you've swallowed a beach ball a requirement of all men who join this august society?
Aristus
(66,316 posts)iron once in a while.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)This is why you don't bury people in the Pet Sematary.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)Most animals have better bullshit detectors than people.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,975 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)I'm immediately turning around and walking out. And I will not hesitate to let the owners know.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)likely walk out.
billh58
(6,635 posts)being responsible for making themselves look like the imbeciles they are. Ted Nugent must be so proud of these armed and dangerous "patriots."
SethH
(170 posts)they are far less likely to break out of their cages and eat us.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)The only amendment they are worried about is the 2nd.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)They skip the first half explaining who should be armed and why!
But it is a lot of words if you read them all.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)Those pathetic people just can't get past the need to show off their artificial penises in public.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)they let those things run loose in some of the zoos, don't you know....
haele
(12,647 posts)Are they preparing themselves for terrorists or PETA will rampage through the facility with AK-47's, shooting wildly at visitors?
Do they want to wander around evangelizing zoo patrons on how great it is to feel like you're able to instantly protect yourself and the public along with the 2nd Amendment against anything?
Or do they just want to walk around scaring "Liberals" and other wimpy anti-gunners - like the grandfather bringing his grandkids out for a safe and fun trip to the zoo to see the animals - and maybe occasionally "scope out" a likely lion or elephant from safety and pretend they're big game hunters?
I'm not seeing a concealed carry situation (or even a discrete open carry) where there may be a case that someone is actually concerned about protecting himself, I'm seeing people who are walking around with an obvious intent to intimidate the public and pretend it's an effort to "normalize" their fantasies of walking around playing cowboy. They said it themselves - they're not going to the zoo to appreciate the animals, or animal conservation. It's about a "no gun" policy at a zoo where there's a large number of animals that are also prize trophy animals to many "gun enthusiasts".
Frankly, these guys should have better things to do than make the zoo employees and parents with kids nervous about why they're at a zoo with long rifles.
Haele
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them.
They better not let Rumps boys in zoo with guns!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)EOM
sandensea
(21,624 posts)These what animals would refer to as "animals" - in the worst sense of the word.
riversedge
(70,189 posts)Coventina
(27,101 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Funny, but you know something? It's probably not too far from the truth. I can actually see that happening. Sick mofos!
jpak
(41,757 posts)Lead Balloon
yup
chowder66
(9,067 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ANY accidents or loss of the gun to thieves. Shouldn't be allowed to leave a gun unattended in a car either without extra car insurance.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)I'm with the woman in the second photo who appears to be laughing at them. Of course I reckon that could get you shot...
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Disgusting piece of sh't.
NeoConsSuck
(2,544 posts)Guaranteed, within one week, one of these imbeciles would feel threatened by one of the larger zoo animals, and shoot the animal dead.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)Bill Maher had a good New Rule a while back: "You're not gun owners, you're ammosexuals. And in case you deny that you have an intimate relationship with your gun, consider this: you're taking it out to dinner."
Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)nm
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Paladin
(28,252 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)and black youth visiting a zoo.
Can't even be safe walking around a zoo?
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,972 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)It is so much cheaper to bag a tiger in a zoo than to go on a safari. Zoos should require rifle packing patrons to post a million dollar bond or whatever it would cost to replace their most expensive animal in case a gun "accidentally goes off." Suddenly no one would want to go hunting in a zoo.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Hmmmm
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Red Mountain
(1,731 posts)just not legally. If they're that damn scared to go to the zoo without a gun no doubt they do.
These are zealots, people. No reasoning with them.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That's all I have to say.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)RobinA
(9,888 posts)and I'm not as scared of the world as these burly men appear to be. Hell, I'm a social worker whose job it used to be to tramp through crack houses making sure the kids were in no immediate danger. Unarmed. These guys need a rifle AND a side arm to go to the zoo? Truly sad. And, well...kinda laughable, too.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)my entire life. I have taken my kids and now my grandkids there many, many times. There is no need for anyone to have a firearm at this zoo. If these folks are so afraid, they should just stay home. And they need to realize that any entity is allowed to ban firearms from the premises. If they can't deal with that fact, they can avoid going there.
Shell_Seas
(3,332 posts)And they won. The Houston zoo had to take down its "no guns allowed" sign. State law allows them to open carry in public parks.