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Man with umbrella prompts lockdown at Destiny USA: People thought it was an AR-15

Police said the man's umbrella did look like a rifle from a distance.
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A couple people thought the umbrella was an AR-15.
The man was taken to the police station for questioning.
This is a direct result of the constant barrage of fear-porn going on in the media, and the continual attempts to demonize guns in general, and the AR platform specifically.

cool umbrella though.
 
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Not only that, but a security guard at the mall saw it on camera, saw him get on an elevator with it, and still called it in. SO many people are complacent in this, it's wild.

AND he was taken to the station for questioning. once they saw it was an umbrella, that should have been the end of it. IANAL but I'm pretty sure he could have a lucrative lawsuit.
 
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Great idea.................cut up an umbrella so that the AR may be carried without controversy............pistols are better, but this may be a first.
 
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It’s missing many many requirements to even be close to a gun. I’m astonished that anyone thought this was a gun. I’m wondering if there is more to this story and the people calling 911 didn’t like him. This stinks to me and I can’t believe people would be that stupid.
As someone above stated if they said it was a sword I’d get that but not a gun.
 
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Grimscale said:
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Man with umbrella prompts lockdown at Destiny USA: People thought it was an AR-15

Police said the man's umbrella did look like a rifle from a distance.
www.syracuse.com www.syracuse.com



A couple people thought the umbrella was an AR-15.
The man was taken to the police station for questioning.
This is a direct result of the constant barrage of fear-porn going on in the media, and the continual attempts to demonize guns in general, and the AR platform specifically.

cool umbrella though.
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lol! taken in for questioning! I would own part of that officer's pension because they wouldn't take me walking in.
 
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WTF? How do you confuse a katana or wakizashi looking sword handle on an umbrella for an "AR-15"? That's wildly stupid
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We haven't seen any photos of it open...

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Or maybe the news provided the wrong photo:

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Same thing happened with someone at RIT a few years back. The powers to be all but scrambled the F 16's. I guess over reaction is better than complacency, but we are surrounded by way too many idiots. Both those who would do us harm and those who are too stupid to be walking the streets.
At Destiny Mall if you wait long enough you probably would see someone with a legit long gun.
 
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Saltwater60 said:
It’s missing many many requirements to even be close to a gun. I’m astonished that anyone thought this was a gun. I’m wondering if there is more to this story and the people calling 911 didn’t like him. This stinks to me and I can’t believe people would be that stupid.
As someone above stated if they said it was a sword I’d get that but not a gun.
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You're complicating things.

People really are that stupid..
 
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camper4lyfe said:
Not only that, but a security guard at the mall saw it on camera, saw him get on an elevator with it, and still called it in. SO many people are complacent in this, it's wild.

AND he was taken to the station for questioning. once they saw it was an umbrella, that should have been the end of it. IANAL but I'm pretty sure he could have a lucrative lawsuit.
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When whats likely the best job of your life is a Mall Security guard...
 
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Same here... Voluntarily submit to questioning... For WHAT exactly?

Sorry, but no. You'll have to arrest me in order to "take" me in for questioning. And then, because you had little "probable cause" to do so, you'll definitely be hearing from an attorney! Suspicion isn't quite enough, lmao, what the fuck world are we living in any more!

Could you imagine a poor teenager with a bona walking thru the mall... Probably get tackled and chained up too!
 
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Man with umbrella prompts lockdown at Destiny USA: People thought it was an AR-15​


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Well, now people are scared of assault umbrella`s. Wait, that could work out for the better! Tell stupid people its going to rain, and the stupids will hide because everyone will be breaking out their assault umbrella`s, and stupid people will run an hide in the corner at home!
 
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Koz said:
Same thing happened with someone at RIT a few years back. The powers to be all but scrambled the F 16's. I guess over reaction is better than complacency, but we are surrounded by way too many idiots. Both those who would do us harm and those who are too stupid to be walking the streets.
At Destiny Mall if you wait long enough you probably would see someone with a legit long gun.
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No, an overreaction *isn't* better than complacency.

Both are bad, but the overreaction is objectively worse.

Complacency could lead to a slightly increased risk of a criminal victimizing a citizen.

But overreaction leads to a 100% chance of the government doing it.

And government victimizing citizens is far worse.
 
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Jsmegs77 said:
Nothing about that umbrella even remotely resembles a rifle. Stupid panicky people are stupid. There is enough to watch out for at Destiny, a damn umbrella is about the last thing to raise an alarm about.
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Few years back some "Karen" called the Cops about a "machine gun mounted on the Hood of a Jeep"....it was a High-Lift Jack strapped to hood mounts.
 
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Well, now people are scared of assault umbrella`s. Wait, that could work out for the better! Tell stupid people its going to rain, and the stupids will hide because everyone will be breaking out their assault umbrella`s, and stupid people will run an hide in the corner at home!
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There was a guy in my town that was nuts beyond belief. People used to yell to him it’s going to rain and he would freak out yelling and swearing. Not sure why
 
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There was a guy in my town that was nuts beyond belief. People used to yell to him it’s going to rain and he would freak out yelling and swearing. Not sure why
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And they walk among us. Its getting harder to tell one from another anymore, because most of the public is flippin out anymore. You can almost predict the next scenario playing out. Someone sneezes, another person will swear it was a gunshot.
 
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