Gunslinger
Moderator
Taken (verbatim) from an article in 'The 10-Ring' in the September/October American Handgunner magazine:
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Better avoid carrying your piece....your shooter, we mean....well, uh, your firearm, okay?.....in one of those down-the-drawers holsters if you're traveling through Mississippi. Legislators in Ole Miss are considering legislation that will make it illegal for men to appear "sexually aroused in public."
No joke, guys. The preposed legal definition is "The showing of covered male genitalia in a decernable turgid state." Mississippi cops are saying they'll just have to go by the general definition of "an unusual bulge in the pants." Then it'll be up to you to prove that a)your're not really "turgid." just gifted: and b) that you weren't thinking happy thoughts.
If convicted, your're looking at up to a year in prison, which in Mississippi is like 10 years in the joint anywhere else but Arkansas, and a $2,000 fine.
So your're thinking. "Hey! I'll just show 'em this bulge is really my Beretta!" Think again. How reasonable do you think a cop might be who comes knocking at your zipper without a warrant?
Now for the really sick stuff: legislators say they need this law to control "men's reactions at strip clubs." They think it's just awful that guys have sexual reactions to seeing naked women. If they succeed in training men not to get aroused while looking at disrobed darlings, they might as well re-name the place West Hollywood East.
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This could be subtitled either; "More strict gun control......"
or
"The further neuturing of America".
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Gunslinger
I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
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Better avoid carrying your piece....your shooter, we mean....well, uh, your firearm, okay?.....in one of those down-the-drawers holsters if you're traveling through Mississippi. Legislators in Ole Miss are considering legislation that will make it illegal for men to appear "sexually aroused in public."
No joke, guys. The preposed legal definition is "The showing of covered male genitalia in a decernable turgid state." Mississippi cops are saying they'll just have to go by the general definition of "an unusual bulge in the pants." Then it'll be up to you to prove that a)your're not really "turgid." just gifted: and b) that you weren't thinking happy thoughts.
If convicted, your're looking at up to a year in prison, which in Mississippi is like 10 years in the joint anywhere else but Arkansas, and a $2,000 fine.
So your're thinking. "Hey! I'll just show 'em this bulge is really my Beretta!" Think again. How reasonable do you think a cop might be who comes knocking at your zipper without a warrant?
Now for the really sick stuff: legislators say they need this law to control "men's reactions at strip clubs." They think it's just awful that guys have sexual reactions to seeing naked women. If they succeed in training men not to get aroused while looking at disrobed darlings, they might as well re-name the place West Hollywood East.
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This could be subtitled either; "More strict gun control......"
or
"The further neuturing of America".
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Gunslinger
I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
.