Okay, I have to make a confession. It goes hand in hand with my earlier post regarding immaturity and my thought process because of my surroundings, the culture, the way "it had always been" and to this very DAY it still gives me a twinge of guilt.
I'm 17, shooting on a smallbore rifle team at my club and the father of another guy in my team is at every practice and he is definitely not LE at any level, some kind of small business owner and he had a license to carry and ALWAYS had a compact, double-stack S&W carried IWB, far back on his right side, nearly SOB. He would just hang out with our coach at every practice, nothing more than that and he rarely interacted with us.
I always had the same thought...
"who is THIS guy, some kind of cowboy? He's not a cop, why is he carrying a handgun?!"
I felt back in '88 the way countless, numerous anti-gun or the uninformed and dense liberals think today... about ME and my contemporaries.
I blame this thinking mostly on my utter immaturity, but some of it on the culture. "This is how it is, why question it, this is just how we've always done it..."
Pathetic and though it was nothing more than how I felt at the time, it is still a strong memory and a very large personal regret.
Here in 2015, I completely and entirely LOATHE the idea of going ANYWHERE without my handgun on me. That is the absolute truth.
Whew! I feel a little better confessing that now.
I'm 17, shooting on a smallbore rifle team at my club and the father of another guy in my team is at every practice and he is definitely not LE at any level, some kind of small business owner and he had a license to carry and ALWAYS had a compact, double-stack S&W carried IWB, far back on his right side, nearly SOB. He would just hang out with our coach at every practice, nothing more than that and he rarely interacted with us.
I always had the same thought...
"who is THIS guy, some kind of cowboy? He's not a cop, why is he carrying a handgun?!"
I felt back in '88 the way countless, numerous anti-gun or the uninformed and dense liberals think today... about ME and my contemporaries.
I blame this thinking mostly on my utter immaturity, but some of it on the culture. "This is how it is, why question it, this is just how we've always done it..."
Pathetic and though it was nothing more than how I felt at the time, it is still a strong memory and a very large personal regret.
Here in 2015, I completely and entirely LOATHE the idea of going ANYWHERE without my handgun on me. That is the absolute truth.
Whew! I feel a little better confessing that now.