Judge bans gun rights advocate from entering St. Louis Zoo with a firearm
Source: STL Post Dispatch
Jeffry Smith has announced plans to go to the St. Louis Zoo Saturday afternoon, armed with a handgun, to challenge the legality of the zoo's ban on firearms. He has invited others to join him.
But the zoo was granted a temporary restraining order Friday that bars Smith from entering the zoo with a gun or weapon. The order was signed by Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty and is in effect until a hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on June 22.
Smith said he is still coming but will not defy the judge's order.
He told the Post-Dispatch Friday that he was en route from his home in the Cincinnati area with his .45-caliber Taurus handgun. He had planned to try to enter the St. Louis Zoo's south entrance at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in defiance of the zoo's posted signs banning firearms and other weapons. By Friday morning, three dozen Facebook users on an event page Smith created to publicize his plans had said they would join him. Smith had encouraged people to bring handguns not rifles or other "long guns" in hip holsters.
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Ahem...
[font size="9"]GUN ACTIVISTS ARE TERRORISTS![/font]
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)blackhawk2415
(10 posts)Agreed
groundloop
(11,539 posts)I've been around firearms since I was a kid, yet when I see one of these idiots carrying a weapon in public they scare the shit out of me. They've been drinking the NRA cool-aid for far too long and have gone off the deep end.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)they are narcissistic cowards; the NRA and other various teabagging assholes have convinced these folk their paranoia trumps common sense
Orrex
(63,298 posts)And it needs to be repeated again and again.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)the reason they need to carry has NOTHING to do with the law
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)They just wanted to go hunting.
I know, bad joke.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)the POOR THANGS
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)with his weapon?
Poorly raised by backwoods idiots, he fails to grasp normal people don't take guns to public places because they are OUT OF PLACE. Bad manners. STUPID.
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Jeffrey Smith, inviting himself and his gun to display around the
humans, instead of minding his own business, and getting a life,
like the people whose day he will be making shabby and nasty. [/center]
freshwest
(53,661 posts)jmowreader
(50,604 posts)None of this is about "other people." It's all about HIM - which is why this ugly fucker is willing to drive 350 miles in one direction to waltz around a place he'd never go to just to see it.
rpannier
(24,353 posts)Guns are not for everywhere
At least he has the good sense not to defy the judge's order.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)What a useless, cowardly, uncivilized POS asshole. If it were up to me, I'd No Trespass his ass off of zoo property permanently. Shithead troublemaker isn't even from Missouri.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)to have to be packing everywhere they go is beyond me. Living life as a coward must be tough.
alboe
(192 posts)I don't see a reason why a gun is needed in a zoo... it's ridiculous
Jumpin Jack Flash
(242 posts)Need to stand my ground on those!