Utah Man Carries Rifle Into JC Penney To Defend Against ‘Criminals, Cartels, Drug Lords’ and ‘Evil Men’
A man in Utah was photographed at a JC Penney carrying around an unloaded version of the gun used in the Newtown tragedy to prove that guns aren’t as dangerous as they’re portrayed.
In addition to the unloaded rifle, a loaded Glock pistol was strapped to his hip when his picture was taken by shopper Cindy Yorgason on her cell phone camera. Speaking with the Salt Lake Tribune, the man — identified as 22-year old Joseph Kelley — said that he called the local police to let them know about his actions before he left his home and intended to display that weapons aren’t dangerous when handled by law-abiding citizens.
Kelley also said he was told that he was “well within his rights” and that bystanders’ reactions were positive.
“I felt no negative vibes from anyone,” Kelley said. “I think it went rather surprisingly well.”
Kelley added that he carries weapons to protect children and other people from “criminals, cartels, drug lords” and other “evil men.”
Kelley also holds a concealed-carry permit from the State of Utah and was formerly in the military. Utah has made the news several times lately in relation to their rather lax gun laws. A small town recently proposed every citizen owning a firearm, while a child at an elementary school in the state brought a handgun with him “for protection” in the days after the shooting at Sandy Hook. Utah currently has absolutely no waiting period in place for purchasing firearms.
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OP: Because Utah is a bastion of EVIL, am I right? My first thought was that the man in question would probably think the below image as being a damn good reason to stop drinking water:
And then I thought "screw it! Canada, here I come!"
A man in Utah was photographed at a JC Penney carrying around an unloaded version of the gun used in the Newtown tragedy to prove that guns aren’t as dangerous as they’re portrayed.
In addition to the unloaded rifle, a loaded Glock pistol was strapped to his hip when his picture was taken by shopper Cindy Yorgason on her cell phone camera. Speaking with the Salt Lake Tribune, the man — identified as 22-year old Joseph Kelley — said that he called the local police to let them know about his actions before he left his home and intended to display that weapons aren’t dangerous when handled by law-abiding citizens.
Kelley also said he was told that he was “well within his rights” and that bystanders’ reactions were positive.
“I felt no negative vibes from anyone,” Kelley said. “I think it went rather surprisingly well.”
Kelley added that he carries weapons to protect children and other people from “criminals, cartels, drug lords” and other “evil men.”
Kelley also holds a concealed-carry permit from the State of Utah and was formerly in the military. Utah has made the news several times lately in relation to their rather lax gun laws. A small town recently proposed every citizen owning a firearm, while a child at an elementary school in the state brought a handgun with him “for protection” in the days after the shooting at Sandy Hook. Utah currently has absolutely no waiting period in place for purchasing firearms.
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OP: Because Utah is a bastion of EVIL, am I right? My first thought was that the man in question would probably think the below image as being a damn good reason to stop drinking water:
And then I thought "screw it! Canada, here I come!"
FACT
Water is WET.
I have Ode to the Bouncer stuck in my head right now.
I wish they had interviewed the other shoppers and employees. If I saw someone walking around the store with a rifle, I wouldn't be sending out "negative vibes", much less confronting him, I would be trying to avoid being noticed until I had a chance to get out.
You mean, no one confronted the man with the 2 guns at hand? Weird....
These people say they're doing it to "protect" people, but they're not - it's just a macho show-off, "look how much of a man I am, I have this big gun," and it's a threat, too. It's "don't you dare say anything to me," "don't you dare do anything that goes against my backwards-ass morality in front of me," that kind of thing. It absolutely terrifies me that these are the people with guns - these jerks who think they're a cop because they've got a huge gun and the willingness to haul it around and intimidate people.
it must be nice to be able to walk out the door and know that you have the power to kill anyone you see at any moment, for any reason. it's an illusion for insecure men who can't handle the reality of their own insignificance, and it's a crime that they can impose that antihero fantasy on others,
real mad rn sorry just
you're right, it is an implicit threat
i get enough of that from men in public without them being armed
fuck these guys and their wack masculinity crises
*Unless they're brown. Then assume they're a criminal. Duh. /sarcasm
Fucking gun nuts - fuck 'em all.
Makes me glad guns are not allowed where I work, and I hope that doesn't change.
it's so narcissistic. i'd call it pathetic if they didn't insist on being armed.
not like all the famous serial shooters were white men or anything
or you could stop thinking you're an action star and let professionals with more training and experience handle armed criminals.
the thinly veiled racism.
What if next time some guy who plans to shoot up a mall, calls ahead to the cops, cause these guys tend to plan ahead before their big day, tells them he's going to show his constitutional right to bear arms. So when people start calling warnings that they saw a guy with guns coming in, the police ignore it...
If she'd had a gun, she might have shot and killed him.
Instead, she had a cast-iron skillet and Old Lady Rage, and ordered the "boy," as she called him, out of her house before she beat him with her skillet. And as much as I want to beat the little punk's face in for scaring her (he apparently took off out of her house like a bat out of hell and was arrested soon after), I'm very glad neither of them had firearms. I'm glad my grandma didn't get shot, and I'm glad a dumb kid probably trying to get drug money didn't break into a house where someone DID have a weapon. And I don't get these gun fetishists who think they have to dickwave their guns around to prove they're tough enough to "defend" themselves.
As far as I'm concerned, the big tough guy in this story will never be as badass as my 84-year-old country grandma.