Louisville Mayor is asking gun owners to leave their firearms at home...

[TheEngineer]

Saw this on the news last night...

Gun owners not pleased with Mayor Fischer's Thunder request - WDRB 41 Louisville News


This is a result of the recent violence we've had in our area discussed here https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...39331-mob-teens-attack-people-louisville.html


I for one will be carrying as usual...but then again, i dont cross the river on the Saturday of Thunder because i like getting home before Sunday night

Got to love some of the comments made on WDRB's Facebook page so far...https://www.facebook.com/WDRBNews

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Blatantly stolen from [strike]another INGO member (all credit to him, whom I have forgotten)[/strike] Magneto:

 

[nakinate]

He may as well just ask for citizens to stay home so the thugs can rule the streets.

 

[aaron580]

Consuela says "No" for about 30 seconds - YouTube

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

He may as well just ask for citizens to stay home so the thugs can rule the streets.

Seems like the same sentence to me.

"Hey, all you law abiding folks better come defenseless or stay at home because we plan on having a good ol' fashioned mob beatdown this evening."

 

[TheEngineer]

He may as well just ask for citizens to stay home so the thugs can rule the streets.

I know!!

I just loved the "common sense" comments...sure Mayor Fischer, common sense says leave your firearm at home while going to an event with around 500,000 people attending that forces you to park your car somewhere and walk through areas that you wouldn't normally walk through in the middle of the night

Don't even get me started on this kid...LMPD arrests man in connection with Thunder Facebook threats | WHAS11.com Louisville
Edit: read the Facebook post the kid made thats in the article linked above...im not sure how they saw that as a threat, i cant even decipher what hes saying...its like reading a Harleyrider_50 ​post but much worse
The Mrs. and I will NOT be staying for the fireworks...but she requested that we go for the airshow

 

[nakinate]

I'm glad I don't live near Louisville. Not that Indy is doing so hot, but my mayor isn't asking me to disarm.

 

[actaeon277]

He's worried things will escalate?

Having a mob stomp on me, forgive me for not wanting to be a doormat.

 

[Motorhead302]

does "open carry" apply to an ar and 10 spare mags? just sayin'...

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

Wrong thread

 

[GNRPowdeR]

does "open carry" apply to an ar and 10 spare mags? just sayin'...

Depends on how much other TACTICOOL stuff you're wearing to compliment...

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

does "open carry" apply to an ar and 10 spare mags? just sayin'...

It'd be hard to conceal that

 

[Bapak2ja]

I believe the principle of situational awareness is involved here. That crowd will have violence. Someone will start something and it will get nasty.

Situational awareness says that is a good night to visit Indy. Grief, I won't even go to downtown Fort Wayne for the Three Rivers Festival because of the neighborhood, though it is improving; so there is no way on earth my concern for situational awareness would allow me to join that crowd in Louisville. Mob beat downs have already occurred in that location.

If you go unarmed, you run a great risk of serious injury. If you go armed, you run a great risk of having to draw and fire. As a result, you or your loved one may be shot. You may shoot someone. Either way, that is only the beginning of your trouble; the legal troubles will destroy your wealth, your reputation, and your career. Why would anyone take that risk?

Wisdom and situational awareness say stay away.

 

[Mark 1911]

I assume then that the good mayor will be the first to give up his armed bodyguards? And if he thinks that is a ridiculous idea, then he has his answer.

 

[churchmouse]

THESE POLITICO'S ARE JUST ****ING NUTS.

 

[Motorhead302]

Depends on how much other TACTICOOL stuff you're wearing to compliment...

"If you can choose what to bring to a gun fight, bring a long gun and a friend."

if i'm going into a crowd of half a million people, in an area with a history of violent outbreaks, i'm either bringing a long gun and a friend, or i'm staying home.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Isn't Kentucky a no-license-for-OC state?

 

[nakinate]

Isn't Kentucky a no-license-for-OC state?

That is my understanding.

 

[avboiler11]

I've never felt unsafe at Thunder, in the decade-plus I've been attending.

That said, I think Fisher and LMPD have much, much, MUCH bigger fish to fry than law-abiding CCDW permit holders.

 

[Leo]

It is time for the CITIZENS of this great land to remind politicians that these are OUR communities, they are not elected to be owners, they are elected to be custodians. If the elected custodians of OUR communities will not do their jobs, the CITIZENS will have to. If the elected employees do not want citizens shooting criminals, they need to do their job and get the criminals off the street.