Gun-rights activists say Fort Worth incident is overblown

[TexasTowelie]

Local gun-rights activists say too much fuss is being made over an incident last week in which some of its demonstrators, carrying shotguns and rifles, walked into a Fort Worth fast-food restaurant to buy soft drinks but were mistaken for robbers.

Last week, employees at the Jack in the Box at Sycamore School Road and the South Freeway told Fort Worth police officers that “they feared for their lives” and locked themselves in a freezer for protection after seeing men they thought were armed with assault rifles enter the restaurant, according to a police report.

Kory Watkins, a spokesman for Open Carry Tarrant County, said Tuesday that the men were carrying their firearms in a “nonaggressive fashion” and that they were at the restaurant only to buy drinks while waiting for a nearby gun-rights demonstration to begin. Within moments, police officers arrived to ask the men why they were there.

“This was blown out of proportion. There was no robbery. The caller must have overexaggerated the situation,” Watkins said.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/05/06/5798296/gun-rights-activists-say-fort.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

[font color=green]The employees at the restaurant felt that it was a threatening situation and were within their rights to call the police. Open Carry Texas is the group that is overblowing the situation by being provocative and then they have the nerve to claim that reasonable people are overexaggerating the incident?[/font]

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[mikeysnot]

1. Cowards they are...

I need my GUN to by a soft drink... small brains and small you know what...

[Hoyt]

2. Oh yeah, these bigoted gun fanciers -- flying the Gadsden flag of hatred -- are fine citizens.

[Bjorn Against]

3. The fact that people like this are allowed to own guns...

Proves just how badly gun control is needed.

[NYC_SKP]

4. These idiots are exploiting the media, I think.

I don't know if they intended to create a scene where police were called, they should and could have avoided it by leaving their weapons in the car or just sending one unarmed person to get the food.

I wasn't there, I don't know if the 911 caller reacted but they're within their rights to call even when they're mistaken about what is going on.

In the future, the idiot protesters should let LEOs know that they plan a protest, the location, and the hours.

Stupid OCT.

[upaloopa]

5. I am really repulsed at the idea that the gunners want

to educate the public and for the public to see it as normal to see people open carrying a gun.
The public needs to be educated on how to stop the intrusion of gun culture into our lives.
The reason this problem exists is because the gun lobby can out spend the public on campaign contributions.
If there was a better way to finance campaigns the gunners would be educated that the public does not want them and their guns around.
This is just like why we are headed toward oligarchy. We have lost our democracy.

[Paladin]

6. The restaurant employees took appropriate action by concealing themselves.

Given how many shooting incidents there are, why would anybody give their automatic trust to a group of people open-carrying guns?