Mark Hughes was peacefully protesting the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling while openly carrying his AR-15 in Dallas Thursday night. It was his photo that police first posted claiming Hughes, and not Micah Xavier Johnson, was the shooter. Police corrected the error, but the mistake was a glaring example of the problems that can arise from Texas’ open-carry gun laws.
Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings joined John Dickerson on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” to explain the problems that surfaced Thursday night as police were attempting to subdue the shooter.
“You know, in dealing with the law of gun holding, you can carry a rifle legally, and when you have gunfire going on, you usually go with the person that’s got a gun,” Rawlings explained, explaining why many people were arrested that night. “And so our police grabbed some of those individuals, took them to police headquarters, and worked it out and figured out that they were not the shooters.”
Therein lies the biggest problem with open-carry laws....
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/dallas-mayor-perfectly-explains-whats-wrong-texas-open-carry-laws

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