The mayor of Dallas suggests tightening the state’s gun laws to make it tougher to carry long arms in public.
It’s true, the police put out a tweet of a guy legally carrying an assault rifle at the protest and said he was a suspect, and it took them about a day to remove the tweet. The guy could have been shot by a concerned citizen at any time.
Open-carry makes it difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
Dallas Police finally delete wrong sniper suspect tweet after 16 hours https://t.co/BT3eYt41FS
— NBC Chicago (@nbcchicago) July 8, 2016
Source: Texas Open-Carry Laws Blurred Lines Between Suspects and Marchers – NYTimes.com