1. I find it amazing that nowhere in this report is it mentioned that any city or community within the great state of Texas under Texas law, cannot and shall not further restrict civil rights and enforce laws exceeding ones already put into place by the state regarding the 2nd amendment. Doing so is a crime in itself.

   1. I’m genuinely curious, Mr. Miller. Are there any limits on the 2nd Amendment that you would support?

      The 1st Amendment right against the government abridging free speech is not absolute. For example, the government has a stake in ensuring that speech is not used to create a dangerous situation by shouting fire in a crowded theater and causing a stampede. Are there any restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights that you would view as reasonable?

      1. Do a simple web search of limits to the 2nd Amendment, or ATF rules for firearms. After you read the current restrictions on firearms, that will take you a couple of years at least, come on back and make you silly claim again.

         1. Thank you for the personal attack when I was just trying to engage in an honest conversation about the 2nd Amendment. I did not attack Open Carry Texas, I did not demean Mr. Miller in my comment. Why do you feel the need to respond in such a hostile manner?

            I will admit that I am certainly in favor of more gun control regulations than you are, Mr. Hackett. However, I am seeking to better understand your position in this debate. I see now that there are many laws, rules, and regulations around guns. Do you believe they are all unnecessary? Do you believe that at least some of those regulations actually serve their intended purpose of keeping the public safe? Which regulations do you believe should be repealed or relaxed?

      2. The second amendment has plenty of restrictions. You can’t murder someone. You can’t pistol whip them. You can’t threaten them except in self defense. You can’t Rob them. You can use them to commit a crime. Those are reasonable limits.

         1. But laws against murder, assault, robbery, and excessive self-defense are not solely aimed at the use of firearms in the commission of those crimes. I could use a knife, a car, or rat poison to commit most of those crimes.

            I’m asking about gun-specific restrictions. For instance, the federal ban on automatic weapons: reasonable or not? What about the gun licensing system in Texas? Do you believe your 2nd Amendment rights are infringed by the fact that “DPS licenses individuals to carry handguns within Texas, evaluates the eligibility of applicants through criminal history background checks and monitors those currently licensed to ensure their continued eligibility. DPS also trains and certifies instructors who teach the required course to applicants.”?

            https://www.dps.texas.gov/rsd/ltc/index.htm (links to the DPS website that I pulled that quotation from)

            1. Automatic weapons are banned, Licenses are not required for long guns, permits are required for hand guns. Basic backgrounds checks go along with both. Texas is an open carry state and it is in the Texas Constitution, They do have stricter gun laws than Arizona. 2nd Amendment means they CAN carry and it is lawful to carry openly, especially in the State of Texas. In this instance the Olmos Park PD are acting like criminals, putting a man face down on the ground, handcuffing him for carrying a SIGN, and a fake handgun. They have pointed an AR15 at a cameraperson and assaulted her for filming them which is illegale on their part Turner V Driver. The police there are out of control and don’t care about the rule of LAW, their police chief is a promoted CORPORAL who likes to go hands on and break people’s arms and cameras. He likes the use of force on law abiding citizens.

         2. I personally feel threatened when I see someone walking around with a large firearm…seemingly unnecessarily…as in there is no impending threat for which a large firearm would be needed. In addition, I fear for my children’s and my safety when people walk around my neighborhood with large firearms to prove a point when they are only preaching to the choir. My mind won’t be changed by this demonstration regardless of how peaceful. I have no issue with concealed handguns or gun ownership. I do however have an issue with being forced to be in proximity of large firearms when I would otherwise choose not to have my children or myself exposed to them.

   2. Why would that need to be mentioned? OP has already repealed the ordinance and is in line with the state. It’s pretty clear that you’re protesting because you literally have nothing better to do with your time because you’ve already accomplished what you came for.

      1. Did you even read the article, or are you too illiterate for that? It’s not about the ordinance. In fact, the ordinance hasn’t even been our main complaint. It’s how OPPD responds to lawful conduct.

         1. I clearly read the article since I left a comment, but thanks anyway for attacking my literacy. My comment was in response to your friend John Miller’s comment – because OP changed their ordinances his comment is irrelevant. By the way I’m super happy you’ll be parading around my neighborhood with a loaded rifle on Saturday – you definitely seem stable enough to do things like that.

         2. Chris, why did you have to attack Stella by calling her illiterate? Can’t you have a civil discourse on this issue??

            1. Maybe because Stella skipped over the part where the local PD was assaulting people who were legally minding their own bussiness.

               Did she not read that part of the article?

            2. Having a protest or a demonstration is by definition not minding your own business. It is putting your business out in public view to draw attention to it. OPPD certainly seems to have been too aggressive with the demonstrators at this protest on March 27, but they cannot expect that anyone standing on a street corner holding a rifle (even in a nonthreatening manner) isn’t going to draw the attention of the public and law enforcement.

            3. The fact that he feels the need to respond with personal attacks rather than have a productive debate about the actual issues he feels passionate about leads me to believe that the intent of this rally is absolutely not “peaceful demonstration”. If you want to be taken seriously have conversations without rude personal attacks. This will serve to increase credibility.

2. “Any reasonable person would be concerned if they saw someone on the side of the street with an AR-15 [semi-automatic rifle],” Olmos Park resident Madison Taylor told the Rivard Report in a Friday email. “This is an intimidation tactic used by people trying to force their agenda onto others,” adding that she “[applauds] the officers for keeping us safe.”

   1) Madison Taylor is not a resident of Olmos Park.
   2) Engaging in lawful behavior is NOT intimidation by definition.
   3) One can judge the rest of her opinion based on #1 and #2 above. Open carry of long arms is legal, and absent some other extraordinary conduct , is no reason to become “concerned”.

   “Fusion is monitoring all information related to this event.” <—- THIS is a statement calculated to cause alarm and intimidate those who might lawfully assemble to bring attention to so-called "Texas Peace Officers" gone rogue.

   The ONLY people in Olmos Park, TX who are engaging in criminal or terroristic activity are the Chief and other members of OPPD every time they roll up on law-abiding Citizens rifles and pistols drawn and aimed at the Citizens, screaming order to "Get on the ground." and "Don't you move… or I'll shoot you you."

   Slamming people to the ground.
   Assaulting to include tasing citizens.
   Unlawfully detaining citizens without reasonable and articulable suspicion.
   Assaulting citizens for filing public official from a public area.
   Issuing arrest warrants in retaliation for filming public officials from a public place.
   Felony stopping a Citizen for DISPLAYING A SIGN on a public sidewalk.

   And the list goes on, and on, and on…

   Watch the videos. It's all there…. until Youtube is harassed into taking the rest of them down, as they were today."

   1. Clay:

      The Rivard Report has confirmed that Madison Taylor is a resident of Olmos Park.

      1. Thank you for not holding up my comment for a single point of contention.

         The closest Madison Taylor to Olmos Park, according to public records, lives in an apartment complex on Ahern Dr. And a public records search shows no property owner by the name of Madison Taylor residing within the borders of Olmos Park.

         Perhaps all the records are incorrect, or Ms. Taylor is a dependent of actual owners, or is a recent transplant into the enclave.

         Assuming she is a resident, #2 above still remains valid:
         Engaging in lawful behavior is NOT intimidation by definition. Intimidation is unlawful. The only people engaging in unlawful behavior, inclusive of intimidation are the OPPD officers and Chief.

         I stand by my original comment.

         1. Are you stalking my address because I disagree with you? All while planning to march near my home with a loaded semiautomatic rifle on Saturday? Pretty sure that’s intimidation right there. And since you seem so concerned, I have been a proud resident of Olmos Park since 2009.

            1. No using his right to peacefully assemble is not “intimidating you”. Typical it seems to play the victim to silence someone you do not agree with. Nowhere did it threaten you or anything. He just proved how empty your stance is and having your points destroyed of course you do the only thing you can do and cry victim. Lol how very sad.

            2. He’s definitely trying to intimidate you. Looking you up to try and discredit you is crazy, posting your public address just because he disagrees with you is dangerous. Especially in light of the fact that there will basically be a parade of weapon-wielding Texans in your neighborhood this weekend.

3. I find it amazingly stupid on the part of the city and police to behave in a manner which will make a sensible person believe they have no goal other than to prove they can assert their authority whether it is legal or not. Most municipalities have a goal of making their communities attractive places to live. The city managers and police have accomplished none of that. The city is only .61 square miles large. Where is the money going to come from to pay for extra policing, overtime pay, legal fees, pay raises for city employees, higher insurance expenses, fines for violating state law, and the inevitable lawsuits that will be lodged against the city and very very likely lost? Can someone please tell me how the city is now a safer place to live when the police department and city hall is surrounded by armed security 24 hours a day? When armed angry people are coming to town to challenge the police and their “authority”? When a town nobody has heard of is now the talk of the Internet and the focus of negative attention? This town has singled itself out for public scorn and a reminder to all what can happen when police are out of control.

   1. Yeah, ask Stephon Clark about out of control police. If he was alive, he would tell you about being shot 8 times by police officers for holding a cell phone that was mistaken for a handgun in his grandmother’s backyard.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/us/stephon-clark-independent-autopsy.html

4. The obviously immature behavior by gun rights groups endangers the peace and safety of everyone. This sort of adolescent preening (“Look at me! I’m such a badass!) has no place in a civilized society.

   1. Everyone says that right up until the first time they are looking down the barrel of an OPPD rifle or pistol, or face down on the ground, etc. for the egregious offense of exercising constitutional rights in a lawful manner.

      Trust me, ma’am. We would much prefer NOT having to risk our financial health, our liberty, and our lives to stop rogue agents of the various governments from overstepping their authority and treating law abiding citizens like criminals.

      1. Just because something is lawful does not necessarily make it ethical. The Nazis that marched in Skokie, IL in 1977 were exercising their constitutionally-protected 1st Amendement free speech rights. The march participants were following the letter of the law, but that did not prevent Jewish residents of the town from feeling threatened.

         I am emphatically NOT saying that you, Open Carry Texas, or any supporter of 2nd Amendment rights is a Nazi. I am, however, intentionally using an extreme example to make a point. It’s about tactics. The men who were arrested at the Olmos Park demonstration on March 27 were completely within their constitutional rights and OPPD very well may have violated those rights. But the fact that their legal demonstration is constitutional does not change the fact that some residents of Olmos Park and San Antonio will perceive their actions as threatening.

         1. That’s entirely possible and probable. But.. (and this is a big but)…

            Someone’s discomfort does not trump another persons rights. We HAVE to be alright with that concept to live in a free society.

            Regardless of that, this protest isn’t about guns. Its about police accountability. It’s the job of the police to PROTECT our rights, especially those rights specifically spelled out in the Constitution, not violate them with violence and impunity.

            1. From you comment ” Regardless of that, this protest isn’t about guns. Its about police accountability. ”

               Ok, so why don’t those who protest this “police accountability” show up without guns for this exercise of their rights?

   2. I’m all for gun control. I live 10 miles away from Sandy Hook, so I know what guns can do. I would vote for repeal of the 2nd amendment if it were possible today. Completely

      However, this issue isn’t about guns. It’s about police accountability. It’s about the violation of a CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED activity, by the the police.

      Let’s take another constitutionally protected activity such as the right to not have government troops take over your property without permission. Suppose that the police just came in to your house and declared it to be their new barracks and you have to move out. How would you react? Would you be outraged? Would you seek some kind of redress from it? Protest? Sue?

      How about another instance where the police decided to shut down your town newspaper because they didn’t like it? What would you do? Protest?

      I’ll repeat. It’s not about guns. It’s about police actions related to your rights as a US citizen. It’s about police accountability. And it’s about the right to seek redress when those rights have been violated.

      1. Tell that to the people who have had their land siezed for a border wall, even thought the Rio Grande is right there, and the land in theirs’? I don’t see you guys protesting property rights?

         https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/story/eminent-domain-trump-border-wall-rio-grande/638916001/

         https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/14/border-land-grab-government-abused-power-seize-property-fence/

         Also, why don’t we see you guys partner with black lives matter. They are very interested in police reform and police accountability. The folks who have been very public for Open Carry Texas have shown no interest in aiding the efforts of minority organizations who work towards police reform

         https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-trumps-america-black-lives-matter-shifts-from-protests-to-policy/2017/05/04/a2acf37a-28fe-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html?utm_term=.f61126ab657f

         https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/open-carry-laws-mean-charlottesville-could-have-been-graver/537087/

         https://www.statesman.com/news/local/open-carry-supporters-rally-the-texas-capitol/q7QkoNSUPm8tkLcZfCtMEP/

         https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/11/moms-demand-action-open-carry-texas-guns-rifles/3497895/

5. As the reporter stated, Olmos Park repealed the ordinance of issue.
   So why continue to “audit”, to push the issue to the point of creating a media event? This group has already created the media event they wanted – sadly.
   Good grief people, you’re in Texas! No one is going to take away your gun rights!
   But if you are going to terrify residents by standing in the roundabout, dressed like Rambo, and brandishing your automatic rifle in the air, residents are going to light up the police phone line.
   Rightfully so.
   This group needs to move along and try their audit somewhere else.

   1. It is a federal crime for a police officer to use undue force in an arrest. These officers are guilty. In addition repealing an illegal ordinance does nothing, it was unenforceable in the first place as the TX Constitution does not allow anyone but the state legislature to pas laws restricting the carry of firearms. And as the article states there are other places in TX that think they can defy the state Constitution, therefore this rally is still needed. There are no such thing as “automatic” AR 15’s but then being a die hard socialist liberal you won’t understand that.

      1. From the above, “There are no such thing as “automatic” AR 15’s but then being a die hard socialist liberal you won’t understand that.”

         First, you do not know Janis, so your ad hominem attack is unnecessary and misplaced. I think you could have just left that part out.

         As to the AR-15, you sound like you are knowledgeable so I am sure you are aware of things like this;

         http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/01/07/slide_fire_this_simple_legal_add_on_lets_an_ar_15_fire_900_rounds_per_minute.html

         http://smokeroom.com/2017/10/05/watch-a-man-convert-his-ar-15-so-it-fires-70000-rounds-a-minute/

         http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/converting-semiautomatic-rifles-full-auto-ease-article-1.3542188

         . . . and although automatic rifles are illegal, they are not hard to convert. Also gun advocates usually posit that one of the drawbacks to gun control efforts is that they do not get rid of the bad actors who would keep their guns and use them to commit crimes (not sure if you personally follow this logic) nor do they necessarily reduce gun violence (although that is debatable as city like Chicago suffer from the gun laws of neighboring areas, such as indiana who has very different laws).

   2. LOL.
      No Automatic firearms.
      Rambo is fiction, many members of OCT are veterans.
      It is sad that you scream no one will take away your gun rights, yet that was the goal of the ordinance that was passed.
      Without the confrontations, the illegal ordinance would still be on the books.
      If you far left folks want us to believe you don’t want to take gun rights, stop passing laws that take gun rights.

      1. I want to take away your guns. I want to do it by law, not by force. We are a nation of laws, and if we don’t have that, we have nothing.

         Right now, we have a 3nd Amendment, which is the law. There is no disputing that, and I will fight for your right to own a gun until that law is repealed.

         In this particular circumstance, the police (the state) has violated your right to own and carry a gun, and it has done so in a particularly grievous way. Even thought I hate guns and what they do, I would rather you have a gun than allow the police to usurp your constitutional right to carry one.

         1. typo 2nd amendment…woops.

      2. A confrontation was absolutely not necessary to have the ordinance repealed. Have you looked into whether there is a litigious recourse that you could have taken which would have allowed this ordinance to be reconsidered by the city council? Or could you have gone to a city council meeting sans guns to speak on your concerns about the ordinance?

   3. It’s not about the ordinance. In fact, the ordinance hasn’t even been our main complaint. It’s how OPPD responds to lawful, constitutionally protected conduct. If you don’t think anyone is going to take our rights away, why are several people awaiting trial and haven’t had their lawfully carried guns returned?

      1. Well, once again I think you failed to read what Law enforcement had to say about open carry before it was passed into law. They said that open carry would make it harder for officers to identify good actors from bad actors. This is why they act the way they did.

         https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/us/texas-open-carry-laws-blurred-lines-between-suspects-and-marchers.html

         https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/07/09/open-carry-createsconfusion-dallas-police-ambush-supporters-say-law-works

         http://concealedcampus.org/common-arguments/

         Why can we not listen to those entrusted to protect and serve? Why can’t local municipalities and cities create laws that best serve the people of their community? Why does everything have to come down from the state? It is not a very libertarian approach, nor a small government approach!

   4. San Antonio has that law on the books and so do several other towns in Texas. The rally will put those places on noticed that Texans will not accept towns and police enforcing their own made up laws that violate our state constitution. Freedom isn’t Free

   5. It’s not about guns. I don’t know why people have a hard time understanding that.

   6. The gun rights of the people the Police assaulted were taken away. So your statement is invalid.

      Please point me at the youtube video showing CJ or one of the others actually banishing a weapon. I missed that. I did see PD officers banishing weapons as they assaulted innocent citizens.

      1. Mr. Young, would you be just as upset if there had been an anti-gun March For Our Lives rally in Olmos Park where OPPD violated the constitutional rights of those hypothetical protesters? Or are you only concerned in this situation because you agree with the political stance of Open Carry Texas?

         Because, if I am reading Makenna’s point correctly, she is saying that we all need to be alert for police who overstep their bounds. Open Carry Texas and groups like Black Lives Matter have both been the target of unnecessary aggression from law enforcement. Do you get mad when you see BLM protesters getting harassed by cops? If you don’t, then your statement is invalid.

   7. Why are you lying? Nobody was dressed like Rambo or brandishing their automatic rifle in the air. You are just like Olmos Park police. Totally lacking honesty, integrity and a flat out liar.

6. Why won’t you publisg my comment? I pointed out factual mistakes in the article/quotes. Is that why?

   Does my speech have less value?

7. I, personally, do not wish to take away any rights for anyone.

   I do have a general question for those that choose to open carry their guns- why do you want to or prefer to open carry? Is it for comfort- not having to hide it in your pants, under your shirt, in your purse, etc.?

   Please don’t attack me or call me names for asking this, I’m really just curious and want to broaden my understanding! Thank you.

   1. I do both. Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t.

      I generally carry concealed but if my shirt or coat blows open exposing my gun then I am still legal.

      My gun’s presence has presented several crimes and I have yet to kill anyone. I think that is the biggest reason the people who always open carry do so.

8. I am a retired police sergeant from a large Texas city. I do not support many of the activities and actions of “cop blockers”. That being said, I also do not accept police officers who are overly aggressive, out of control and engage in criminal assaults and trump up charges. It makes all in law enforcement look bad, gives credence to cop haters and others who portray all police as corrupt. It upsets me when I see “activists” cursing and taunting police…. But, when you see the mere exercising of second amendment rights, carrying protest signs and standing on a sidewalk, this is not cause to attack and knock handcuffed persons to the ground with a “face plant”. Neither should you put a sign carrying protester on the ground at gunpoint. You should not charge at a person with a camera, knock it or a phone out of their hand and then charge them with interfering or assault. Finally, a single individual standing on a sidewalk with no one around is not guilty of obstructing a passageway or sidewalk. Some of the finest people I have ever worked with are dedicated police officers. Some police officers are not fit to serve the community. As a police officer for almost thirty years, I can speak from personal experience. These activists may push the limits of civility in many cases, but when police officers let egos, power, and lack of accountability motivate them, they become out of control and ultimately defendants in criminal and civil proceedings. Obviously, the Olmos Park ordinance that was appealed was contrary to state law. Any reasonable and knowledgeable police office knows that fact. I predict most, if not all charges against the protesters will be dismissed upon review of the videotapes. I fully expect Olmos Park to make leadership changes at the police department. I seriously doubt the police department consulted with counsel or the district attorney’s office before taking some of the aggressive actions that were captured on videotape. The liability for retaining personnel who push a compliant handcuffed suspect forward to the concrete on his face is excessive force. Pointing a weapon at a person with a camera and knocking it out of their hand is assault. Yep, those are the facts. Bottom line…. Some activists tactics are to be condemned, but as police officers, you remain restrained and NEVER TAKE THE BAIT.

   1. What tactics do you condemn?

9. I live in Olmos Park. I’m a single mom of two young girls. And, we live on E.Olmos Dr. The first time OPPD arrested me I had called to ask that a male officer come simply to have another male ask the father of my girls to go leave and go home. We both were arrested. They say that prosecutors can get a grand jury (12 people) to indict a turnip. Our case was no-billed which means 12 people said there was no evidence a crime was committed. Later the assistant chief told me in person the arrest should never have happened. I knew that as did the father of my girls who happens to be a criminal attorney. The *next* time I was arrested by OPPD was after I thwarted an attack by pepper spraying a man who had jumped out of his car and run at me while I was on my very own front door steps. The police arrived in three or more cars and I was quickly told “Do you know how much pepper spray hurts?!” and handcuffed and transported to jail. The OPPD know who I am and that I am a single mom yet they entered the charge as assault with bodily injury as a domestic assault which is worse than if not domestic. They did return much later to change it to not domestic. Their own website advises the carrying of pepper spray as protection. I came to court every single day ready to tell a judge I was innocent but was never given the chance because the case was dropped by the district attorney. A recent time I was again arrested by OPPD was when my daughter, who is in high school, came to school with a bruise to the left of her eye. I figured she’d at most be a little bit embarrassed when people would say oh my gosh what happened!? I felt she’d handle it just fine. I had not even been home when the bruise happened and she had told me she caused it. I was a little suspicious that she and her younger sister had gotten into an argument which led to a brush being thrown but accepted what I was told as the truth and let it go. During school she was called to the office and the OPPD came there as well. She said noone ever asked her if her mom hit her but for some reason OPPD went to a judge and secured a warrant and arrested me again, at 1:30 in the morning, while I was outside coming from another unit of a four plex which we were switching to. The OPPD also completely against my will took away my house keys and when I was taken to jail they used them to enter my home where my 11 year old daughter was sleeping woke her up and watched her as they snooped around. The only way the Olmos Park police could have gotten the warrant from a judge was to swear in an affidavit that they had personal knowledge I hit my daughter. They did not. They lied to a judge in order to arrest me for something I was innocent of. I have never ever ever hit or spanked my girls. Never had to, never did. Over a year later and the day of the trial I hoped would allow me to finally say I was innocent the district attorney again dropped the case …and the reason they listed was missing witness. I was there. My daughter was there too. Was the OPPD that ‘missing witness’ then?

   1. This another example of the Police oppression that must stop.

      1. Thank you Mr. Young. It has dawned on me that once the gun rally folks go back home OPPD will remember I’m right down the street. I think Olmos Park is lovely. In fact, my two young daughters (one at the junior school and one at the high school) attended Cambridge elementary and both outscored campus, city, and state scores on the state tests AHISD uses to show off with. Both have reached beyond the advanced and highest level and one daughter has more advanced level scores than not. Being in such a fine school district is no small reason why Olmos Park can claim how ‘elite’, as they like to say, the neighborhood is. But it seems rediculous and shameful to stand behind the worst police department so blindly instead of having one like Alamo Heights or Terrell Hills which are made up of legitimately upstanding men and women. The Terrell Hills Chief of Police actually ‘drew straws’ with the rest of the department, and he got the short straw. He actually got out the cleaning bucket and cleaned the new city hall bathrooms himself. The point I got is he takes pride in where he works and that it is important to him that he and his officers be proactive beyond their work as police men and women.
         The FBI puts out a request for police departments to voluntarily submit their crime stats and OP submitted zero for violent crimes which I happen to know must be inaccurate because I witnessed one my self (woman slammed her foot on the gas pedal of her car and flew directly at a man who luckily jumped out of the way with the car just scruffing up his leg).

         1. Before I was arrested for protecting myself with the pepper spray the officers said “the NEXT time we have to come out here SOMEbody is getting arrested.
            It ties in to the fact that Olmos Park keeps being ranked as one of the top safest neighborhoods. Voluntarily submitted made up stats of zero crimes. There was another violent crime besides the attempted murder/assault with a deadly weapon the woman should have been charged with but I can’t think of it on the spot…btw she was charged (and convicted)with a lower charge according to OPPD because the man waited one day instead of coming to fill out the affidavit immediately. But he was SO much … in shock really. I was just witnessing it.

10. If any of the Open Carry Texas members read this: Please, as a mom of several kids in Olmos Park, please do not come to our neighborhood brazening your weapons. I support your right to carry, and I also support my childrens’ right to run around our neighborhood without being scared of adults carrying guns. You are displaying your weapons in an effort to cause unrest and intimidation. THAT is not the nature of the open carry gun laws. Please think carefully before you do this. Although you think you are, you will NOT be supporting your cause, but you will instead be inadvertently convincing people that open carry is frightening and unnecessary. At the same time, creating an atmosphere of fear and creating a scary memory for our children that will last a lifetime. Please do not enter into our neighborhood in this spirit.

    1. I have attended several OCT/2A events. I have yet to see any one “brazening your weapons”.

       Wait. There was an ANTIFA popping a bat in his hands, does that count?

    2. 100% agree with this very thoughtful and logical request.

       1. Agree. We are staying away from our usual Saturday spots in OP with our children because of this demonstration. Just glad it’s not in our front yard, and I feel for those OP residents (and businesses!) who are caught in the middle. I just want to feel safe with my kids, and with all of the gun violence, being around folks carrying weapons that could kill my entire family in seconds with no chance to defend ourselves does NOT make me feel safe.

11. Open Carry Fanatics. What a bunch of clowns. Olmos Park is a lovely, quiet neighborhood. Do any of these clowns actually live in OP? And yes, this is intimidation, pure and simple. Nothing but a bunch of bullies!

12. I live in Olmos Park! I saw this guy standing on the street corner, ALONE on a Saturday night at 11pm. No one else around. He had the AR-15 in front of him with both hands on it! It frightened me! What was his intention? Sorry…but you’re asking for it if you want to “EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS” with an AR-15 in a very peaceful community where this NEVER HAPPENS. Of course police are gonna be called, of course the suspect is gonna be detained, of course there’s gonna be drama. But, now the question is, should have I ran the guy over with my car? I genuinely feared for my life! That weapon could have been pointed at me in literally less that a half of second! Then, we would have a dead protester and I would be in jail for life…all because someone wants to “exercise their rights at 11pm at night with an AR-15” It’s also my right to defend my life. And yes…I felt it was in danger. I just happened to make a split second decision not to do it. I’m all for gun ownership, but be smart and protest in a way that’s not a danger to others and yourself! GEEZZZZ, what’s wrong with people??
    BTW…I’d like to see this guy or anyone who wants to exercise their open carry rights go do it on a street corner at 11pm at night down on the East Side or the West Side of San Antonio! I call COWARD!
    just sayin’…

    1. Tony, you need psychiatric treatment. Wanting to run over someone who is standing on a street corner isn’t the actions of a sane person. Your paranoia is dangerous to everyone around you. You just stated that you just happened to make a split second decision not to murder someone and then ask what’s wrong with people. You need to seek help before your insanity harms or kills somebody

       1. Actually, I think Tony’s suggestion is fantastic. Please hold your rally’s all over the city…..if you really want to prove your point.

13. STAY OUT OF OLMOS PARK OPEN CARRY ACTIVISTS. YOU ARE HERE ONLY TO PROVOKE.

    TEXAS LAWMAKERS – WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU TO SUPPORT OUR LOCAL OLMOS PARK GOVERNMENT, POLICE AND RESIDENTS? PLEASE HELP US FROM BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY GUN FANATICS.

14. STEVE ALLISON WHERE ARE YOU?? My children are afraid. How can you do this to your constituents? You should be ashamed. I’m guessing you’re hedging your bets right now on what’s worse politically: loosing lives or votes? Perhaps you’ve decided on lives as you are radio silent. Desgraciado sin verguenza.

15. Little boys and their toys. Sad, ridiculous – pathetically obvious their psychological shortcomings.

16. If you are trying to reason with radical gun enthusiasts, you are wasting your time. Know, however, that like the dinosaurs, their days are numbered. Eventually, common sense laws will win over the idea that any one should be able to own and openly carry any weapon they choose. When it does, we will see how “law-abiding” they are. Meanwhile, vote and teach your children well.

17. Based on recent events I have to wonder if Mr. Grisham were black whether, a. he would still be alive and b. whether the 2nd Ammendment folks would be rallying around him.

    1. Two words: Philando Castile.

       Law-abiding black gun owner who did everything right as was still shot and killed by a police officer and the NRA could only bothered to put out a tepid response after facing public pressure to do so.

18. We dont need dirty cops in any Texas towns and cities, and for the entire United States of America for that matter. Enough of their ego maniacal behaviors in suppressing and oppressing the constitutional rights of the people to free speech, right to keep and bear arms and to be secure in their persons and properties. What we are seeing today is their monopoly on the application of force under color of law. The good cops must police their own ranks or the people will. Its We the People who are now being criminalized while being taxed to fund this police surveillance state apparatus under the guise of national security which is nothing but a smokescreen towards a One World Govt aka Nazi World Order (NWO) …

    

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