This situation is spinning out of control. They should ask this fruitloop who he watches on tv and who he listens to. I am sure he is one of the lush brigade and is a huge fan of glen "the wacko" back. Seriously, this is really, really troubling the way the uninformed and mentally challenged loons can get whipped up into a frenzy. It is a major disaster waiting to happen.

Oh, I think he made more than just one mistake. Starting with leaving a round in the chamber. Just an innocent little mistake. That's totally the act of a guy with good NRA trained gun safety skills who has no intention whatsoever of using the gun any time soon.

How about one great big American circular firing circle-jerk?

That would at least take the pressure off the health care system.

I was raised knowing how to use a firearm. I have great respect for them. In my family, "gun control" means that you know how to use your weapon, if you choose to have one. I choose not to.

These people - traveling with a loaded weapon, DROPPING YOUR WEAPON ON THE FLOOR for crissakes! - shouldn't be allowed with sharp objects, let alone a firearm.

As a former police officer, let me just say that the LAST thing I ever wanted to have to deal with was a motivated, well-intentioned armed citizen interceding in a situation already potentially spinning wildly out of control. I simply cannot understand why many people perceive a need to 'protect' themselves and others from an unquantifiable threat, and are increasingly allowed and encouraged to do so.

Overwhelming evidence clearly shows that firearms kept in a home are far, far more likely to be accidently or intentionally used against family members than against intruders.

The situation becomes even more intolerable when such individuals are motivated by self-promoting heroics, have no or poor training, exercise unbelievably poor judgement—as was the case here—and, demonstrate a compulsive need to exert power over others when no statutory basis exists for such action and no justification for it can possibly hold up to scrutiny.

There should be administrative procedures or court imposed penalties for 'forgetting' the rules, and secreting a loaded, concealable pistol in a vehicle, on a person or elsewhere. Lifetime revocation of a permit seems a reasonable penalty to impose on individuals who 'forget' the rules, or selectively violate them, whatever their motivations.

If felons can have their right to vote taken away, can we please have folks like this' right to bear arms taken away?

So let me get this straight: half-trained uniformed TSA agents can confiscate my (oh, highly dangerous!) "cyber tool" Swiss Army knife and tell me "Because I say so!" when I ask them why I need to walk direction A rather than direction B after going through the metal detector, but this clown can drive up to a Presidential event with a gun in his truck?

Is it me, or has the entire country flipped its lid?

Dougum - it was ever thus.

The Libertarian guy that Chris Matthews tried to verbally mow down (and failed) honestly seemed like a harmless goober who hopped on the Tea Party/Town Hall bandwagon.

This... doesn't.

When I read about Kostric on another blog, I immediately thought "Timothy McVeigh". Then I read somewhere else that McVeigh's T-shirt had the exact same message as Kostric's sign. I don't think that concealed weapon carry laws should apply around the President. I'm sorry. I support the 2nd Amendment. However, I don't believe the founders of this country thought that we would have to deal with Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Michael Savage, Sarah Palin, Joe The Plumber, William Kostric, the NRA, lobbyists, etc. I personally feel that protecting the President is more important. I'm willing to give up weapons around a POTUS. Where's the Secret Service here?

Stop, please. Kostric strikes me as an asshole, whereas the other guy seems like he made an honest (but very stupid) mistake. The fact that he was released on his O.R. should speak volumes.