Jim Cooley and the law of unintended consequences
You remember Jim Cooley, right? He was the fellow who took his long gun to the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport earlier this month. His intention was some bone-headed plan to make people more comfortable with seeing citizens carrying scary black guns in public. Of course, Mr. Cooley neglected to consider the idiot drama queens’ reactions to the news reports. Idiot drama queens like Georgia’s own Hank (Guam might tip over) Johnson who now wants to restrict law abiding citizens from carrying firearms in areas this side of TSA security checkpoints, according to The Hill;
Transportation Security Administration rules currently prohibit passengers from carrying guns beyond security checkpoints in carry-on luggage, but some weapons can be packed into checked baggage if they are unloaded and locked in cases.
Johnson’s office said the measure “would expand Homeland Security’s jurisdiction to include non-secure areas of airports and would take precedence over any city or state laws that allow weapons in any airports nationwide.
“The gun ban would include public transportation stops within airports if the gun owner departs the transit station at an airport,” Johnson’s office said.
“Law-abiding gun owners would still be able to carry guns if they are unloaded and contained in clearly marked, locked cases,” the Georgia Democrat’s office continued. “Airports would also be required to post signs that clearly indicate they are gun-free zones.”
Yeah, because those “gun-free zone” signs have been saving lives since forever. Or not. When I go to airports to pick up friends and family, I carry a firearm concealed (if it’s lawful to do so) and I’ve never been approached by law enforcement, or the media. Nor have I ever shot anyone, but airports have been targets in the past and I don’t plan on being a victim.
So thank you, Mr. Cooley, for knotting Mr. Johnson’s flowered, silky panties. Maybe Johnson can name his bill after you.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Gun free safe zone creep!!!!
If we only made enough laws, criminals would have to obey them…..
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand is a crackpot to my line of thinking, but even a crackpot can make some accurate observations from time to time….
Wadda ya wanna bet Mr Johnson would have submitted his “common sense” bill anyway, Mr Cooley or not.
I’m sure he just didn’t know that it wasn’t illegal until Cooley pointed it out to everyone, while those of us who are sane and only trying to protect ourselves have been doing it all along legally.
“Second Order Effect”.
In action.
One of GEN J.D. Thurman’s Top Ten: “Always consider second and third order effects.”
J.D. would NOT be happy.
AAAAAAAND a big thank you goes out to our Dickhead of the Day, Jim Cooley! Because of you, you shitbag, now we will have many, many well marked “Gun Free Zones” nationwide, coming to a town near you. The perfect places for all nut jobs, ass holes, point pushers and the like to do their deadly deeds. Places where the only safety will now reside in the well trained hands?…of TSA guards. I feel safer already. /sarc to last sentence/
Wow, this worked out great. Thanks, asshole!
Both Cooley and Johnson are idiots. I have often wondered if morons like Cooley aren’t actually gun control advocates using different tactics.
Yessir. U.S. Representative (D-Ga.) Hank Johnson is definitely my favorite liberal progressive panty waist. And who’s this other dummy? Cooley? Yeah, thanks a lot, Jim. People like you are just useful idiots for the gun grabbers.
I have no doubt that Johnson was unaware of this before Cooley’s parade through the terminal. For those of you playing along at home, it’s H.R. 2767, by the way. But this isn’t the whole story, not by a long shot. The issue of carrying at the Georgia Airport has been around for years and years. Here’s a link and, if you have a few hours to kill, you will find a fantastic legal history of the matter. In fact, before Cooley did his waltz, the airport asked the TSA to amend its required security plan to include unsecured areas of the airport. As far as I can tell, that’s pending. Certainly, it wasn’t in effect when Cooley arrived. Yes, Cooley brought the issue to the front pages but the issue, as I said, has been around for years. Hell, eventually, there will be one-road access to all airports with everyone strip searched before boarding a trolley to the terminal. Also, many airports already ban firearms on their property, usually owned by the state or the city. There is a jurisdictional issue here, that old federalism issue again. Oh, here’s that link:
http://www.georgiacarry.org/cms/category/action-items/hartsfield-airports-firearm-ban/
Anybody remember when flying was an enjoyable adventure?
Geez…I think I just showed MY age, right there. 🙁
Flying stopped being enjoyable once some asshole decided it would be a good idea to duct tape dogs while they are in aircraft. If those dogs could talk, they would probably say “Hey, asshole, did you remember to fuel up?”.
PN. Yes, I used to fly commercial hops, arriving sometimes minutes before boarding, not hours. The shit I carried onto a plane would land me in federal prison today. Oh, and at the counter, the gal would ask, “Smoking or nonsmoking?”
Yep. Back in the day they even had complimentary cigarettes on the dinner trays – you remember the ones with real china and silverware?
Yeah because nothing I want more is to check a box or case with a giant GUN stenciled on the side. I’m sure it would make it to my hunting destination just fine.
So, we have a right to walk through air terminals while openly carrying weapons (let’s not pretend that the problem here is that it was an AR-15 – any weapon would have caused this same reaction) but we can’t exercise it for fear that doing so will attract a legislative backlash. If you have a right you can’t exercise, what value does it have? Does it actually exist?
I disagree. The AR was exactly the problem here. His choice of weapon made him look like a nut. It’s not uncommon to see pistols on belts. It’s VERY uncommon to see an AR with a drum magazine slung on someone – ANYWHERE. A pistol is certainly less conspicuous. Uncommon behavior makes people uncomfortable. Based on his unreasonable choice of weapon, I would assume that he was unreasonable with the police, too. He did this for shock value and he got the attention he wanted. These open carry people are going to F up our gun rights by causing many restrictions.
Just because any of us chooses not to exercise a right has no impact upon the existence of that right. The right exists or it does not. None of us is required to exercise any of our rights.
Simple logic dictates that at any given time we cannot exercise all our rights. Yes, I can concurrently exercise some of them, but not all. Voting, for instance. That right doesn’t go away just because it’s not election day today. Another might be the right to legal counsel in criminal matters. I’ve never needed it, but the right is still mine should I need it in the future.
Mature people understand that concept.
Currently, TSA can’t prevent people from taking explosives and firearms past a single choke-point. Now, this dope want’s them to openly patrol an airport and prevent explosives and guns randomly sneaking through non choke-point areas?
I can already see what’s going to happen. Habib and Achmed will be ignored. However, not granny Beth will have her colostomy bad dumped over her at the ticket counter and little Suzie will be molested neat the escalator.