I suppose the rifle open-carry guys needed something to do. They haven’t been in the news the last few months, so they decided to strut around recruiting offices in the wake of the Chattanooga shooting.
In Lancaster, Ohio, a guy named Christopher Reed had a negligent discharge in the parking lot. Apparently, someone asked to see his rifle and he fired it while he was trying to clear it.
He has been charged with discharging a firearm within the city limits. As it turns out, this isn’t his first rodeo. He was convicted and fined $50 for a similar incident in 2013.
Way to go, Reed. You’re on a roll.
“I’m nobody special,” Reed said in a telephone interview on Thursday. “I’m just a guy doing my job because my own government wouldn’t do it.”
He downplayed what happened. “It is what it is,” he said. “Nobody got hurt.”
Oh, OK. No biggie, right? Wrong. His cavalier attitude is going to get someone hurt or killed.
Needless to say, the management of the shopping center has banned people from carrying rifles there.
In retrospect, I’m relieved we didn’t have an incident like this during the whole Starbucks/Chipotle orgy last year. Seriously, guys…you’re not protecting anything. You’re only making the rest of us look bad. Knock it off.
(Bonus content: what federal offenses is this guy openly advertising?)