Well, the lousy gun control bliss-a-ninnies will be happy; they've managed to convince some people that any carrying of a weapon is criminal. And now, we have situations where it is completely legal to carry a gun around - except where if someone calls police and says they feel threatened.

The fellow carrying the gun can have it slung over his shoulder, not point it at anyone, just be walking down the road minding his own business. But all it takes is one moron to call the police and say they alarmed, and suddenly a legal act becomes illegal - because of how another person - completely unaffected by the act - feels about that act. They just say the person is 'disturbing the peace'. Heaven forbid, then, that you do anything unusual that could disturb someone.

This doesn't just affect gun rights - think of how certain speech could be labeled hate speech and be made illegal if it offended someone in some way.

http://www.al.com/news/press-registe...l=3&thispage=1

Mobile police said they plan to arrest a man today who scared people Friday evening as he walked through a Spring Hill neighborhood with a loaded, semiautomatic AK-47-style rifle.

Officers confiscated the rifle Friday but could not take the man into custody until they had a warrant signed by both a magistrate and the man who made the complaint, Mobile police spokesman Officer Eric Gallichant said.

Gallichant said that on Monday, a magistrate signed a warrant for a charge of disorderly conduct, and officers expected to obtain the signature of one of the witnesses today. Once that is done, the man will be arrested, he said.

Gallichant said, however, that he would not release the man's name Monday because officers had not yet obtained the second signature needed to activate the warrant.

While it is not illegal to carry an assault rifle, it is against the law to use the gun to alarm people, Gallichant said.

"I think it is important that people understand that although he may not be specifically charged with carrying a weapon out in the open like that, just the act of doing so can cause public alarm, which is covered by disorderly conduct," Gallichant said.
Of course, he wasn't using the gun to alarm people. Pointing at people or threatening them would be one thing, but now you can break the law without doing anything wrong because other people don't like it.

CR