Dallas mayor: With Open carry, ‘it’s hard to pick out the good guys and the bad guys’
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings perfectly explained what’s wrong with the Open Carry movement.
Click here for reuse options!Rawlings joined John Dickerson on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” to explain the problems that surfaced Thursday night as police were attempting to subdue the shooter.
“You know, in dealing with the law of gun holding, you can carry a rifle legally, and when you have gunfire going on, you usually go with the person that’s got a gun,” Rawlings explained, explaining why many people were arrested that night. “And so our police grabbed some of those individuals, took them to police headquarters, and worked it out and figured out that they were not the shooters.”
Therein lies the biggest problem with open carry laws. “But that is one of the real issues with the gun right issues that we face, that in the middle of a firefight, it’s hard to pick out the good guys and the bad guys,” he said.
Rawlings continued that those open-carrying complicated the moment when police were trying to stop the shooter. “I wasn’t there real time to kind of see it go on, but the common sense would tell you, you don’t know where the gunfire’s coming from. There were individuals that ran across the gunfire. They were in the body armor, camo gear with rifles slung over their shoulders, so it sure took our eye off the ball for a moment. We got them out of the way, we figured out what was happening, and we did our business.”
“There was also the challenge of sorting out witnesses from potential suspects,” Max Geron, a Dallas police major told the Dallas Morning News.
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7 responses to Dallas mayor: With Open carry, ‘it’s hard to pick out the good guys and the bad guys’
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Suzanne McFly July 11th, 2016 at 16:22
Since a white guy finally said it, does this mean we can do something about it? Naaaa, I am joking, he is a democrat so it does not matter.
Maxx44 July 11th, 2016 at 17:00
The DPD chief said the same thing: Chief Brown said, “It’s increasingly challenging when people have AR-15’s slung over and shootings occur in a crowd and they begin running and we don’t know, or, we don’t know if they’re the shooter or not …has been the presumption that a good guy with a gun is the best way to resolve some of these things, well, we don’t know who the good guy is versus who the bad guy is if everybody starts shooting!”
The domestic terrorist group known as the NRA should officially declared what it is and be disbanded. They are so soaked in the blood of countless Americans that there is no way to defend their very existence.
amersham1046 July 11th, 2016 at 17:19
Good guys don’t need guns
jybarz July 11th, 2016 at 18:39
Ask NRA the merchant of death and the gun nuts that question.
whatthe46 July 11th, 2016 at 19:32
well duh.
bpollen July 12th, 2016 at 00:30
This seems so obvious… and then you remember that there’s this organization whose raison d’etre is to make that as hard to understand as possible.
DogsRgoodpeople July 12th, 2016 at 06:24
yeah, that’s what the 6 year olds were saying when texas passed the open carry