Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Really?
We just got back from the grocery store and I had to post about this. So we were pushing the cart along and I saw a man wearing what I first thought were suspenders which was weird b/c he was wearing wind pants so on a second look I saw what was actually a gun holder. He had it on over his shirt not under a jacket or anything with his gun in it. And I thought to myself, do you really think you need to take a gun into the store with you in suburban Tennessee? We live in one of the safest areas in Nashville I"m pretty sure no one is going to try and rob the store in the middle of the day. I really don't care if you have a gun but I don't think you really need it while doing your grocery shopping. Am I crazy or is that weird?
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Well I'm a big fan of guns & wish I had my CHL so I could take it everywhere with me, but I do live in Houston :) He definitely has to have it concealed, per state law. Maybe the law is different in TN?
You are allowed to just take a gun to the grocery store??? That seems so wrong to me!
Seems a bit over-the-top....
I doubt this gentleman's primary motivation to carry his handgun openly was was self-defense, it was probably political.
A few years ago, the Washington Post ran a series of very critical articles and scathing editorials attacking the practice of open carry. Reacting to this "news" coverage, gun owners across the United States naturally wondered about the law of open carry in the fifty states - but gun rights Internet resources at that time focused almost exclusively on "concealed" carry. Research soon revealed that state legislatures and courts have largely protected open carry rights since the time of our nation's founding, and that most states require no permit to open carry.
Over the last 6 years, the open carry of handguns has become much more common and less controversial as open carriers' friends, neighbors and local law enforcement discover that open carry is legal and wholesome. In fact a recent FBI report essentially concludes that criminals don't open carry handguns.
Anthropologist Charles Springwood sums it up nicely when he commented that open carriers are trying to "naturalize the presence of guns, which means that guns become ordinary, omnipresent, and expected. Over time, the gun becomes a symbol of ordinary personhood."
"A right unexercised, is a right lost."
Yeah that's weird. What made me mad was when my neighbor left his gun out on the sill of his street-level balcony, unattended, low enough for a 4-year-old to reach. Seemed pretty irrseponsible to me.
I agree...that's weird and scary.
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