{"id":62315,"date":"2016-08-18T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=62315"},"modified":"2016-08-18T01:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T03:52:13","slug":"milwaukee-police-chief-blasts-open-carry-lunacy-urban-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/milwaukee-police-chief-blasts-open-carry-lunacy-urban-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Police Chief Blasts Open Carry as \u2018Lunacy in Urban Environments\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62317\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Flynn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"milwaukee-police-chief-blasts-open-carry-lunacy-urban-environments\" title=\"Milwaukee Police Chief Blasts Open Carry as \u2018Lunacy in Urban Environments\u2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62317\" title=\"Milwaukee Police Chief Blasts Open Carry as \u2018Lunacy in Urban Environments\u2019\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Flynn-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Flynn at a ABC News sponsored townhall meeting with the president. \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Flynn-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Flynn-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Flynn.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Flynn at an ABC News-sponsored town hall meeting with the president.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a very candid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2016\/08\/16\/milwaukee-s-police-chief-on-open-carry-gun-laws?ref=hp-1-112#.h3dfm6YPV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"milwaukee-police-chief-blasts-open-carry-lunacy-urban-environments\" title=\"Milwaukee Police Chief Blasts Open Carry as \u2018Lunacy in Urban Environments\u2019\">no-nonsense interview <\/a>with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit organization that covers criminal justice, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward A. Flynn blasted open carry, calling it \u201clunacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Flynn made no bones about his disdain for laws that protect one\u2019s right to keep and bear arms openly in public, saying, \u201cThe law is, quite simply, lunacy. It&#8217;s lunacy in an urban environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese laws get passed overwhelmingly for ideological reasons, and, marginally to offer comfort to people who live in rural areas, where everyone knows everyone, and where the casual carrying of a hunting-style weapon no doubt causes little alarm,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn griped about state pre-emption laws that keep municipalities from passing their own gun regulations. From his perspective, a state Legislature\u2019s one-size-fits-all approach to gun ownership is a mistake as cities face different challenges than rural and even suburban communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, right now in Milwaukee, we don&#8217;t have any rights to govern ourselves when it comes to firearms,\u201d said Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re totally at the mercy of the state legislature, and they decided there can&#8217;t possibly be enough guns in Milwaukee,\u201d he added. \u201cThe law is written in such a way as to casually and legally arm criminals. It is written in such a way as to flood the streets of our cities with high-quality firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it goes without saying, but Flynn is no fan of modern sporting rifles nor those open-carry advocates who opt to carry their modern sporting rifle around town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we&#8217;re going to make these weapons available to anyone who wants them, to parade around in public spaces, perhaps during elections, perhaps outside polling booths,\u201d lamented Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this notion that the framers really wanted to build into the Constitution, the destruction of democratic institutions? That&#8217;s the logic of these idiotic laws,\u201d he went on. \u201cThe logic of these idiotic laws is political violence, and mass casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, you get the idea. Flynn is emphatic in his opposition to open carry. In truth, a sizable portion of the gun community is divided on open carry. Many believe, as do I, just because you can, doesn\u2019t always mean you should. In other words, I\u2019m pro-open carry but at the same time I\u2019m pretty sure that concealed carry is the way to go 90-95 percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand on open carry and what are your thoughts about Flynn\u2019s opposition to open carry laws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI mean, right now in Milwaukee, we don&#8217;t have any rights to govern ourselves when it comes to firearms,\u201d said Flynn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":62317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,607,319,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-open-carry","15":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Milwaukee Police Chief Blasts Open Carry as \u2018Lunacy in Urban Environments\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cI mean, right now in Milwaukee, we don&#039;t have any rights to govern ourselves when it comes to firearms,\u201d said Flynn.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/milwaukee-police-chief-blasts-open-carry-lunacy-urban-environments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Milwaukee Police Chief Blasts Open Carry as \u2018Lunacy in Urban Environments\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI mean, right now in Milwaukee, we don&#039;t have any rights to govern ourselves when it comes to firearms,\u201d said Flynn.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/milwaukee-police-chief-blasts-open-carry-lunacy-urban-environments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-18T05:14:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T03:52:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Flynn.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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