Featured Man Carries LOADED AR-15 Rifle Through World's Busiest Airport

Here’s what happens when a white guy with an assault rifle gets combative with airport security



Last week, a white man named Jim Cooley visited the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport with an AR-15 rifle strapped to his back. That white man became angry because he was unfairly stopped and questioned by law enforcement authorities while he walked around that international airport.

It was his right under Georgia’s open-carry law to visibly display his weapon, he correctly argued, and he should not have been detained even one time.

A local NBC affiliate reports:

Cooley says he was approached by several Atlanta Police officers asking about his firearm, which he said he was carrying for safety, while at the airport

However, Cooley asked the officers, each time he was stopped if he was being detained. When the officers each answered in the negative, he continued on his way.

In a series of videos posted to his YouTube page, Cooley can be heard rudely stating his rights to an Atlanta fire marshal who is politely asking him about his firearm.

Let’s all take a minute to imagine how these interactions might have gone if Cooley wasn’t white. Is that too hard to imagine? Okay, fine, imagine he wasn’t in an airport. And instead of a real gun, imagine he was holding a toy gun. Too hard? Then, let’s just imagine he was waiting to pick up his kid without a gun and not in an airport.

http://www.salon.com/2015/06/02/her...t_rifle_gets_combative_with_airport_security/

 

This is just STUPID. I'm all for folks exercising their rights. But this right here is just STUPID.

Why don't we just call the terrorists and say "Hey, it's okay for you to walk through the world's busiest airport with an assault rifle or apparently any other type of gun and the police aren't gonna attempt to stop you."

He's carrying his gun for safety and probably just made the airport a whole lot more unsafe for the millions upon millions who use that airport yearly.

 

We're calling an Officials timeout to review the flag.
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After review the officials flag is overturned. The airport has been made more unsafe by opening the door for anyone(terrorist or otherwise) who wants to shoot up the airport to freely walk into the airport with a weapon to do so.

If I were a terrorist and wanted to scare the Americans, Hartsfield Atlanta, the world's busiest airport, is where I would now start.t You could legitimately come in equipped to kill hundreds of people and probably not really get questioned according to this.

And if you are questioned, all you have to do is lie. Or do we really think an ISIS operative couldn't get the right "paperwork" to be able to convince the cops they can carry these guns? But according to this guy, they didn't even have the right to question him.

 

I fly in and out of Hartsfield Atlanta all the time. You can't sit still for 30 seconds in front of the drop-off area without the cops accosting you. But parade through the airport with a loaded rifle and they just leave you alone???

If he were Black, he'd be in jail or dead.

 

I heard a number of military guys on the talk show circuit saying something similar this morning. That it's kinda like Viagra. Makes them feel more like men to let folks see them carrying these types of weapons in public because they either washed out of the military or got put out or couldn't get in or were really afraid to serve.

And a lot of them do seem to be white.

The crazy thing about this again is that police killed a 12 year old child in 2 seconds upon seeing him with a toy gun, and killed a guy in WalMart, where they sell real guns, yet this guy demonstrates that you can apparently parade around with guns and not be questioned.

 

You apparently can bring your mind together to surmise that they aren't so why not the opposite?

And when unarmed black men are being killed just for "supposedly" reaching for a weapon, it does seem rather odd how few of these white men who have actually killed with weapons or who parade around with loaded guns seem to not get shot or killed.

 

Correct. I should say he would PROBABLY be dead or in jail.

In my experiences there, it always seems to be pretty balanced inside and out. I think there are enough cops who have been conditioned to think a certain way that a white cop would have probably done the shooting and the black and white cops would help him justify it.

 

You're even dumber than I was told. :laugh:

 

Man, stop playing the hypocrite. If you don't have anything to say to the one who attempted to insult me, then don't hypocritically say anything to me.:thumbsup:

And it is pretty dumb of him to think that he can insult me with an Africa joke.