Harry Tracey inspects security at recruiting office
Chip sends us a link to Atlanta’s Fox5 News in which they report that this Harry Tracey fellow, who they claim is a 72-year-old Vietnam veteran, entered an Army recruiting office and started asking a recruiter there about his security training.
The police report said Tracey showed a weapon under his waistband and asked a recruiter if “he felt safe, if he was armed and if he could protect himself against an attack like the one that happened in Chattanooga.”
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Police said Tracey was arrested outside the Dollar Tree store nearby after he left the recruitment office unhappy with the soldier’s response.
The police report states Tracey admitted bringing his handgun to “keep the guys on their toes” and “keep them aware of their surroundings.” He was jailed on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon into a government building.
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[N]eighbors said they weren’t surprised by the arrest.
“Not surprising to me because of his attitude,” one neighbor told FOX 5’s George Franco.
“We always keep to ourselves because you know he seems the kind of person who likes to be boasting and bragging,” said another neighbor.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that recruiters don’t need that kind of “support”. While the cops are involved, they should run a FOIA check on Harry. The folks at MyFoxAtlanta know the process – they busted Shane Ladner.
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Great example of why having random folks with guns hanging around isn’t a good idea.
Again with the double standard?
If this one nut job with a gun represents all those who volunteer to stand in front of recruiting offices, then why do not ALL of the Muslim love wolf terrorists represent all Muslims?
I’m sorry, but you can’t have it both ways.
There’s no double standard here. There’s no way to tell a good decent armed citizen that’s standing a watch from an armed nutcase or closet jihadi.
Sure they can because well,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZw7lWd1btQ
(BTW did this song make it to Hondo’s worst song contest a few years back?)
The lyrics of that song come from an anecdote related in one of my favorite novels from my boyhood, “LITTLE MEN”, by Louisa May Alcott, which became a 1940 Hollywood movie, now in the public domain.
https://youtu.be/nH0HeNx9OuQ
Nutters are wandering the streets worse than stray dogs anymore, with no end in sight. *sigh*
Looks like he got beat with both the Ugly AND Idiot sticks – make that FOREST.
Rode hard and put away wet. Often.
Really and truly, he’s lucky he did not get shot. The wrong person could easily have said, “Yep, we are prepared. Let me show you how we handle threats like this!” Might well have ended up in a case of Bury Harry, Quite Contrary; How Does Your Inquiry Go?
Hell, the office had a posted sign! Unfortunately, the sign didn’t stop him, probably because he meant no harm. Had he been a Muslim terrorist, though, I have no doubt that the sign would have prevented another attack. And the story says that he had just come and gone from the Navy recruiter next door. I hope the navy has a sign too!
It has to be the weather. They come out mostly at night, but sometimes, when it’s a long, hot summer, they come out in the daylight, too… and end up sleeping on the sidewalks.