Welcome to Wyoming...this is how WE roll!!!

I just spent the evening at a Jr Rodeo Fund raiser. The conversation was about Hunt's response.

Contrary to what many here think, the people of Weston County, the people who elected Hans Hunt to the house support his response totally.

I haven't talked to anyone from here that disagrees with him.

Look what's happening in Colorado now. Its because people moved there to get away from California only to turn Colorado into little California.

I don't want a wishy washy Representative I wont someone like Hunt. Apparenlty I'm not the only one in this county, the county that elected him.
 
How could any sane person disagree with him or his actions? It is beyond me. I guess we have devolved to crazy lady pastors and hoplophobia in "real America." We are all so .....
 
kraigwy said:
I just spent the evening at a Jr Rodeo Fund raiser. The conversation was about Hunt's response.

Contrary to what many here think, the people of Weston County, the people who elected Hans Hunt to the house support his response totally.

I haven't talked to anyone from here that disagrees with him.

Look what's happening in Colorado now. Its because people moved there to get away from California only to turn Colorado into little California.

I don't want a wishy washy Representative I wont someone like Hunt. Apparenlty I'm not the only one in this county, the county that elected him.
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It's nice living in a no-b.s. state eh kraig?
 
I am with my fellow Okies on this one. Send all the liberals to the left coast of commiefornia. We don't want or need them in Oklahoma.

I like Hunt he says what he thinks. Just like I do.
 
Awww, refreshing...

The WY elected official was blunt but the new citizen was a uptight nitwit in my humble opine, :D.
It sounds like the woman watched too many West Wing episodes, lol.

Her "outrage" reminds me of 2 obnoxious jerks(male/female couple who claimed to be active duty USMC Marines from NC) I encountered working a armed, uniformed security post in central Florida a few years ago.
These nitwits treated the front desk clerk like dirt, refused to follow the standard hotel check-in SOPs, then got hostile with me. The "Marines" berated me & exclaimed; "I don't know why you are armed?, We didn't allow this!, Who allows you to carry a loaded gun?!? etc"
I calmly explained to the young couple; I'm a US Armed Forces veteran, I'm licensed & certified by the state agency that covers private security and that I pay for my own weapon qualifications, training and related gear. I also said; You are not required to know or approve anything. I am only accountable to my employers, sworn law enforcement and/or the state regulatory agency.
I then told the stuck-up jerks to get the $&#* off the property or they'd be cited for trespass by the local sheriff's office. They left w/o incident.

Gun owners & armed professionals should be mature and polite but don't let people walk all over you or treat you like dirt.

Clyde
 
Could Hunt have been more diplomatic in his response? Sure.

Do I have a problem with the response he actually gave? Not at all.

I grew up in Maine as a kid. The changes in the culture there from the influx of nanny staters have been horrendous. What used to be a land of rugged individualists is now the highest taxed state in the US; where there used to be a rifle and/or shotgun in every truck rack, there are now legislators and newspaper staffs pushing for gun control.

We moved to Florida when I was a teenager. The state has been turning more and more into NY south. While it is still a gun-friendly state, the anti faction is growing. Taxes are also growing, but in weird way. (Homestead exemptions make things very interesting, and I'm surprised there have not been more suits brought by new homebuyers who have to pay much higher property taxes.)

I was stationed in Washington State in the mid-90s and again in the early 2000s. The changes wrought by the west coast hippy influx from California were noticeable in the short interval when I was away.

I am quite sick of seeing the places I lived being turned into anti-gun, nanny state "utopias" by people who mostly left the places they used to live because they couldn't afford to live there anymore due to taxes necessary to support a nanny state lifestyle.

I would hope my Missouri legislator would pen similar sentiments to the letter writer. I like the state the way I found it when I got there, and would strongly oppose any changes such as that woman wants.
 
I have to say that Medicine Bow's post did make me slightly embarrassed at my enthusiastic post in support of Rep. Hunt's response to the reverend. I think MedicineBow's point is well-taken.

I may agree with Hunt's position on the proposed legislation, but there is something to be said for his rudeness.

Thanks for speaking up, MedicineBow.
 
I used to live in MT, and I totally get Mr Hunt's point. States like MT and WY have struck a balance which is very bill of rights friendly.

If these foreign invaders(by private property purchase) don't like the culture, they should think about why they moved there. The culture is one of the most important things to keeping WY as WY.

So, love it or go elsewhere. BTW, I hope I speak for all Ohioans when I say DON'T COME HERE!
 
Yes, that is the way I feel about it too.

The problem in this case is civil discourse. Mr. Hunt may have let his true feelings get in front of his need (as a public figure) for civility in public. I don't consider this a political correctness requirement. One can make their point civilly.
 
Mr. Hunt is such a bad man. He should just capitulate and do the right thing. Why take a stand, it is so rude, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, he was "nicer" than Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, et al, because they were so rude to the king. No place for that when it comes to important rights. Bow down and lick the boots of the P.C. crowd.
 
Mr. Hunt is such a bad man. He should just capitulate and do the right thing. Why take a stand, it is so rude, especially when it comes to the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, he was "nicer" than Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, et al, because they were so rude to the king. No place for that when it comes to important rights. Bow down and lick the boots of the P.C. crowd.
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The point is, of course, he didn't take "a stand."

He hurled insults. Hunt couldn't muster a single, solitary, actual honest-to-god reason why he supported a bill that the constituent wanted him to vote against.

If the meaning of "politically correct" has degenerated to mean having a basis for your position and being able to announce that basis like an adult then you can color me, and most people, as "politically correct."

In a final irony, his constituent was more in tune with the Wyoming's approach to that bill than Hunt was. The bill didn't pass in what is arguably the most conservative, pro-Second Amendment legislature in the country.

At the end of that democratic process, Hunt didn't get up and scream at the legislature, "Wyoming! Love it or leave it! You liberals!" I don't know why, for a young guy with such "convictions."

In any event, his childish rant apparently plays well on the internet and talk radio (in between ads for sleep number mattressess). In the real world....not so much.
 
I think sometimes you have to be blunt or rude or whatever you want to call it. I have listened to a lot of back and forth between proponents and opponents of the second amendment and almost without fail the opponents become very rude and patronizing, and very quickly. I would certainly like the representatives in my area a lot more if they did something like this from time to time. As it is, they follow the politicians guide of giving you PC answers to questions you never asked.
 
I say good on ya Mr. Hunt, I have far more respect for a person with convictions that they stick to than a wishy washy fence sitter that spews politically correct bull@#$! all day long.
 
So, Audette sent a letter to representatives across the state voicing those concerns.
But one of the responses she received has her and many others fairly upset. That response came from Hans Hunt of House District 2.
Representative Hunt replies;
[I'll be blunt.]

Rep Hunt had no obligation to address her at all!
Mr. Medicine Bow comments;
He got a polite letter from a constituent, who disagrees with him. He writes back like he's a 12-year-old on a playground.
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NO he did not!
I wonder what response she received from HER Representative???
Some Silver Tongue cut and paste say nothing response that she probably was delighted to receive???:rolleyes:

We have a history of Representatives from my district here in MN that speak their heart. The Whiners in the Twin City's cry just like this one.
My hat is off to Rep. Hunt of House seat 2 ;)
 
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He could have been more diplomatic, but I applaud the message. I did find her letter to be high handed and insulting. She said that if things didn't change it would be her and other "educated" people who left. The obvious implication is that people of a different opinion are not as intelligent.
 
She said that if things didn't change it would be her and other "educated" people who left
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Yep, some newcomers always bring up the education thing. Some, like the lady here, threaten to go away if the uneducated local clods don't change the way they do things. At a conference several years ago i had a tiff with one of those back eastern "educated" ladies. She threw up her education thing and i pointed to my masters from Rutgers :D
 
On education vs the warrior outlook

Years ago, when my little sister was working on her MA at U Virginia, I was able to score a training cross-country flight with a student who had graduated from Virginia, and who wanted to go there for a weekend. So we flew a Navy T-34C into Charlottesville.

My sister invited me to a graduate student party, primarily English and Art department students. Her friends were pretty cool, but some of her acquaintances were Ivory Tower jackasses.

One, in particular, who knew I was a Navy officer, assumed I must be some knuckle-dragging Neanderthal since I'd opted to go into the military, instead of higher education. I guess he never thought about the fact that, after all, I was my sister's brother - and my sister was at or near the top of her class.

So, after he had made some cutting comments about the general lack of intellectual capability in the armed forces, I hit him with one of my favorite quotes, from Sir William Francis Butler:

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
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Since he didn't think himself a fool, that left him with only one viable option, in Butler's world view.

The graduate student promptly found another conversation partner.
 
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Her letter contained untrue statements and thinly veiled holier-than-thou preaching. The response was a bit rough, but it's time folks learned there are consequences for trying to force groupthink on a population by the use of government force and power.

Anyone who would leave a state because they don't like armed security in their schools is putting their own beliefs ahead of the safety of their children. They deserve being taken to task for it.
 
Hummmmmmmmm...........educated, child rearing adults. Guess she must think that the majority of adults in Wyoming are uneducated. Well I suppose that everyone in the state will need to boost their education. Oh, and don't forget, become a member of her church too. In fact maybe they should all immediately elect her as dictator. I can see why she received the response that she did.

Sorry, all that and I am not even from Wyoming. Just erks me tho.
 
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