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No one cares that you are carrying. No one is looking. No one will
notice. They are modern Zombies! They are too busy with their very important lives. They have
their noses buried in IPads, Kindles and phones. They wear ear buds
that silence the world around them and they wander aimlessly without the
slightest hint of awareness. The only people looking are other people
carrying and as one of those, I can honestly say
that since carrying
began, I have yet to positively identify someone who was carrying. I
completely believe that if I wore a black shirt, black slacks, black
holster and a black gun, I could open carry and it would be sometime
before someone noticed.
Relax, do your due diligence and you will be fine. For everyone else? Situational awareness is a beautiful thing.
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I respect LEO the same way I respect Fireman, Military etc., Those
people look in the mirror in the morning and say "Today I will put my
life on the line for a stranger."
That is noble and the stuff of legends. But when you abuse those you are supposed to be serving, all
that goodwill is lost in the wind.
If an LEO doesn't like the job or can't handle the vagaries of the
job, then they should find another. In the end, that's all it is... a job. I like
most of the LEO I know, they are good people - make no mistake. But that being said, the
whole "there are a lot of good cops out there" doesn't work for me.
A
good cop is only a good cop if he is stopping the bad cops. Turn in the
bad cop when they've done something that offends the public trust. Good cops should stop
the bad cop when they see them overstepping, knowing that the public
trust is failed when the good cop commits a "sin of omission" by not
standing up for citizens when bad cops go awry. If an LEO wants the
public to respect and back them, the citizenry needs to know that that
LEO respects the citizen and is willing to back them when a bad cop situation
happens. There is nothing worse than watching a video of a bad cop abusing a citizen, while the good cop stands and watches.
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Like everyone else who is pro Second Amendment, I am frustrated and aggravated every time I
see that stupid No Guns sign. But here is the thing... if the Knucklehead who
owns the joint doesn't want
me there, then the Knucklehead who owns the joint shouldn't
have to have me there. It's his investment, it's his money, it's his
decision.
I would love to see someone open a Concealed Carry Education seminar
that traveled to businesses or groups of business people to give them the
lowdown, the facts, the studies of those who Conceal Carry and how the
law pertains to them (I'm sure many are acting on bad information) and
include a study of the dollars lost through "signing" their place of
business, show them the error of their ways, so to speak. But beyond
that?
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I'm one of those people who was raised to take personal responsibility for my
decisions and my actions. If I don't want to disarm, then I don't go
into a business that is posted with the No Guns sign. If I don't want to slip and fall, I don't go where
the sign says it's wet and slippery. And if I should happen to decide
that the risk of my actions is acceptable to me, and then I am injured, you won't find me
looking around for someone else to blame. One of the core arguments for
Concealed Carry is that we, as a group, are responsible people. We get
angry and frustrated with others intolerance of our lifestyle and
Rights. Yet we are intolerant of private businesses who have the right
to post. I just don't understand that line of thinking.
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I have no trouble with most things people say as long as there isn't
any malicious intent. And to be honest, I don't much care if anyone is
offended. Using the word offended doesn't give us some magic power to
curb other peoples thoughts and words.
But if I am going to be called something derogatory, I prefer "Cotton-headed ninny muggins."
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As far as fighting anti-gunners is concerned - Vigilance is the key. They will never stop. They will never cease looking for a new angle to chip away at our Constitutional Rights.
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The TSA has 47,000 agents. How many terrorists have they caught?
ZERO. How many agents have been terminated for theft? 400. Total cost
of TSA so far? 7.5 Billion. Lets cut that first.
Social Security?
Find some way to start fazing it out, moving to private accounts. I don't need the Government to
tell me how much money I should save, or
if I should save. Why?
Because I'm responsible for myself and my retirement, not the Government.
IRS? straight tax
across the board for everyone. Period. No loopholes, no incentives. A one page tax form at the end of the year. Then? Start paring down the IRS.
DEA? One trillion
spent on the drug war since the mid sixties... How is that working out for you? Prohibition
doesn't work - Alcohol, drugs, guns. You'd think people would understand that by now Legalize all drugs and you don't need the DEA...
Sayanara.
And thanks, but
I will decide where my money goes. Not the Government. If anyone wants to give their money to schooling,
knock yourself out. If I want to give mine to St Judes? Thanks but
that's my decision. I'll decide whats important for my money. No more bailouts. No more funding of other Countries. Enough of taking
my money and sending it where
you want it to go.
I love how I may be considered greedy or a bad guy because a I don't
want to pay for higher education (or any other gubmint programs), but
those who want to reach into my pocket, take the money that
I worked for
and give it to a charity
they think is important, consider themselves to
be a giving and noble person with higher moral standards than I.
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I definitely think Government needs to get out of education. With the
government guaranteeing
loans, the schools are able to raise their
rates. What do they care if the student can't pay when they know the
taxpayer will cough up the money. It's guaranteed, free money! (Read that as taxpayer.) When there are no guarantees, the
students will either go to a smaller college, causing four year colleges
to lower their rates to entice students to attend, or students will stop going to four year colleges
and do two years at a junior college before moving up to the big leagues, again, dropping costs.
Or they
won't go to school at all and maybe take up a trade - and as the saying goes, "the world needs
ditch diggers too."
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