But what about when he Conceal Carries his weapon in public and then brags about it?
if adamant about his & our rights.
I understand that many question his methods; but, the dust-up in Gonzales certainly brought up the correct laws and Constitutional considerations to most of Louisiana's City P.D.'s.
Then why did he settle for a quiet payment he couldn't talk about openly?
And the activities he has been involved in appear to be very legal.
Being a "senior citizen", I can clearly recall decades ago, when his current actions would not have raised an eyebrow around here. Under the same Constitutions, too.
In a nutshell (no pun intended); M E M's adventures and misadventures tell me a sad story of how far we have ALL come in accepting the erosions of our constitutional civil liberties.
The responses to those same activities and frequent vitriolic anti-M E M postings also tell just how "Politically Correct" we anti-PC'ers on the right have become. Let's take a look in our own mirrors!
Of course, I may have missed something early-on, as I was not here then.
It looks to me that M E M has done more with his one-man crusade to restore some of our most important firearms rights than the NRA, GOA, etc. combined have done here in Louisiana.
Please tell me how this is not correct; but, please use FACTS, not unsupported opinions.
leVieux
QUOTE: " Then why did he settle for a quiet payment he couldn't talk about openly? "
M E M, like most of us, probably doesn't have the financial resources to carry on a long legal battle with a governmental agency. And, his lawyer had to get paid, too.
"Gag order" or not, the message surely did get out, and to the correct recipients, too.
BTW, Fox, What have YOU done personally for our firearms RIGHTS here in Louisiana ?
leVieux
leVieux... you ask too much of *some* of this crowd to have a decent conversation about anything without your haters showing up... and MEM's in this case.
Haters?? Show me the first hateful post in this thread.
He settled with GPD because he couldn't get a lawyer to help him take the case further and he didn't have the resources to keep going it alone.
Rick - It's not just what you do but how you do it. Rubbing people the wrong way does not help the cause. It only turns people off to the gun rights cause lumping all of us into the rude, arrogant, ass category. Tact can go a long way to win people over. In business make one person mad they tell every one they know. Make one person happy and they may tell a friend or two. The cause he is fighting is admirable but his technique is detrimental to all gun owners.
BTW, Fox, What have YOU done personally for our firearms RIGHTS here in Louisiana ?
leVieux
I think I saw a pic of MEM with a hat on indoors.
edit- AHHHH there it is. How can he stand up for our rights and yet be such a social misfit?? He's wearing a hat indoors AND at the table. So the negative cancels the positive and all we are left with is he's still a douche.
Jim, I'm also wearing a hat in that photo. I'm the one sitting across from him wearing the EMT (Emergency Med Tech) cap. I'm pretty sure, if I remember correctly, that photo was taken at the LaPlace Shoneys resturant where LOCAL now holds it's monthly meetings.