How it can be Enforced:
That last Section, 3, is the most unique part of the law. While Section 2 can be applied much like Section 1 can, that third portion has the ability to criminalize open-carry demonstrations and peaceful protests.[/i]
In other words, if any group assembles in protest and anyone in the group, even a plant, has a firearm, then the politicians can say it was an attempt to intimidate. The result will be the classification of everyone there as felons and thus they would all lose their firearm rights.
I agree, this is a huge change in the law.
The existing law, so the first two parts, specifically state that there is an Intent of furthering a civil disorder.
The third part, is way more subjective. While it still contains the word "intent" the rest, intimidation, is too subjective, it is in the eyes of the beholder, and this generally means the eyes of the person who feels intimidated. This makes a person responsible for someone elses feelings. I felt intimidated. In this day and age, absolutely anything you do is going to "make someone feel bad" which is interpreted as intimidation. A person feels intimadated because another is open carrying, never mind that it is legal ! Now the legal citizen is a criminal because of how the first person felt ! Not to mention, in a way, isnt the whole point of any protest to be a show of numbers ? A show of strength of shared purpose or thought of the demonstrators ? So, in that sense, any person of the opposing thought would feel intimidated by that show of strength even in a political disagreement having nothing to do with 2A
