It has nothing to do with growing up in Mayberry 30 years ago, it has to do with using some common sense and not capitulating to the pro-criminal anti 2A leftists. I'm not trying to stir any pot, I've just had my fill of PC stew.
Exactly how I feel. And I think some of us in this forum, to some degree or another, have subtly embraced this evil gun=evil people attitude when we say things like "if I see a guy walking down the street with a rifle, I'm calling the cops and they should do the same to me if reversed" or anyone who thinks about walking around with a long gun openly in any time, place or manner no matter what the circumstances must be a gun nut. Let's not embrace these busybody soccer mom attitudes or seek to appease them.
A local gun dealer was telling me of a time a while back when he and a friend of his from the store (they all wear guns and have CHLs) were walking around the grocery store picking up a few things. One of them with his 1911 gov't in the holster under his coat. The man leaned over and the other man noticed this nosey old woman standing on the other side of the isle a few yards away leaning down too following the end of his coat to try to see what this lump was and saw the muzzel of his 1911. She immediately hurried off.
A few minutes later the manager, who thankfully had enough masculinity not to panic, approached the men and simply said, "I take it you have a handgun license." They showed him and he told them about the busybody hag that came to him with the "OMGsh he's got a gun" tale. If I notice anyone with a handgun on them, I am going to mind my own business until they commece criminal activity.
By the same token, if someone is carrying a long gun and it is legal where you are, why bother them unless the context dictates otherwise (manner of carry, where are they carrying it.)
If carrying a long gun is legal in the state you are in, in my case Texas, that is great. That should be reason enough to do it when we need to. Need to for me is going to and from my car either at my home or in rural areas where my hotel is located. Not Walmart or the Mall. As for the mall, it is legal? Yes. Do I need to? NO. Will I do it? NO. Why? Because I don't need to and I definately will get hasseled by the police and mall security for suspicious behavior.
I wish these transplant Yankee/California leftists wouldn't be taken seriously by the police in our communities. I wish the police would ask such questions as in Antipidas story (good story btw) "is said person using gun in a violent or threatening manner?" before sending a unit to hassel someone. Glad to hear he still lives in common (or good) sense Mayberry U.S.A. (minus Barney Fife and his bullet.
) The psychos have NOT set the tone. The media and the yuppies who watch them have used the pyschos to set the tone. They take isolated incidents with guns and say "this is the norm of gun owners."
