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Pledge “OpenCarry”

"I will openly carry a pistol in Manchester, NH but only if 20 other local people will do the same."

— Joseph Brown, New Hampshire resident (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 4^th July 2008
20 people signed up

Country: United States
Place: Manchester (view map)

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On June 8th, the Manchester Police violated the human, civil, and Constitutional rights of four peaceable persons because two of them happened to be openly carrying pistols while walking down the sidewalk.

These individuals were not harming anyone, and many would argue that their presence would actually deter criminals. NH is the safest state in the US, in large part because the right to keep and bear arms is exercised by such a large percentage of the population.

The actions of the Manchester Police Department were a direct violation of the rights of these individuals, as well as violating State and Federal laws regarding unlawful detention and governmental interference with the free exercise of protected civil rights.

In you sign this pledge, please openly carry your pistol whenever you visit Manchester, unless the weather makes that impossible, and until the City formally apologizes to the individuals who were harmed in this incident, and institutes remedial training programs for all officers to prevent future incidents.

Comments on this pledge

• Each and every human being on this planet is an Individual Sovereign Human Being with Basic Inherent Inalienable Irrevocable Human Rights.
  The most basic and fundamental of these rights are the Right to Life, the Right to Liberty, and the Right to Property.
  Please join us as Students and Advocates of the Philosophically Mature Non-Aggression Principle.
  Don't be a looter, bureaucrat, jackboot, or mercenary!
  Join us in our Campaign For Liberty (campaignforliberty.org) where we endeavor to empower each and every human being with the ability to defend themselves, interact with all other human beings utilizing the Philosophically Mature Non-Aggression Principle, and to repel and eliminate every looter, bureaucrat, jackboot, and mercenary. We are a peaceful and peace-loving people but there are some things worse than death.
  Live Free Or Die!
  Rob Jacobs, 5 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I'm not waiting for 20 other people. I carry my Glock everywhere I go, plus I may or may not be carrying a concealed pistol. I haven't had a problem, but I've only been on the ground here a couple weeks.
  
  A warning to anyone who carries: If you are carrying on your hip and your shirt or jacket accidentally covers the weapon, even for a second and a cop is watching, that's considered concealed.
  
  Business idea: Create and market a holster that attaches to your forehead.
  Brian Travis, 5 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I live in Texas but we are trying to get open carry in our state.
  This just ain't right to have to go through all this bull to be able to carry your weapon on you side in plain view.
  This is a GOD GIVEN RIGHT to be able to defend your self and family.
  Who gives them the right to say their are speculiations.
  I just wonder if when they look down at some one that has been shot. If it ever runs through their mind if this guy had had a gun recon he would still be alive.
  Probly not.
  
  Good Luck-Let us know down Texas way?
  Lovelace, 2 months ago. Abusive? Report it!