Please Open Carry Because You Might Kill Me
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 5 months ago
Via reporter Mack, opinion from Virginia:
Concealed carry needs to be done away with. All gun owners should carry openly.
When you meet me on the street, you don’t know I’m a loving wife, devoted mother, Girl Scout troop leader, Sunday school teacher and soccer mom.
I don’t know those things about you either, but if you open carry, I know two things I need to know: 1. You are prepared; 2. willing to kill me.
When I see you at the counter in Starbucks, I should have the right to decide if I want that coffee now or leave the store immediately.
When I drop my sons at soccer practice and see you’re one of the coaches, I should have the right to decide if my son joins another team or plays Little League.
Concealed-carry gun owners have all the rights. It’s time people who don’t like guns have rights, too.
Kimberly Blatt
Stafford
The comments are a hoot. Well Kimberly, it ain’t no skin off of my back. I’ve said before many times that I would prefer to open carry simply because of the level of comfort having to do with carrying OWB versus IWB. It is my understanding that two centuries ago it was considered dishonorable to conceal a weapon anyway. Honorable men displayed weapons for all to see.
But the problem is this. Suppose we stipulate that such a law wouldn’t infringe upon a right (a point I do not grant, by the way, but stipulate for the sake of argument). Making this law doesn’t lead to observance of that law, the deadly weakness of all such progressive social planning. Setting the regulation in place does nothing to effect compliance, because … ahem … the weapon would be concealed, not openly displayed.
In other words, such a law would only affect peaceable, law abiding men, not criminals who were never going to obey the law regardless of what it says. So you see Kimberly, your proposed law does no more than the opposite proposal does for the folks who fear the public carrying of weapons. Yes, that’s right, Kimberly. Some people want to prohibit what you want to encourage.
They want to prohibit open carry because the law forces hiding the weapon, and since it is out of sight they can pretend that it doesn’t exist. You want to force open carry by law so that you can pretend that concealed weapons don’t exist. In either case, this is a psychological problem, one which you ought to take up with your pastor or church counselor rather than the state legislature.
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On May 25, 2016 at 7:49 am, Frank Clarke said:
I think you miss the point, Cap’n. It’s not an “or” condition. They want to prohibit Open Carry –AND– they want to prohibit concealed carry. After that, prohibiting possession is a logical next step.
Sheesh! You always used to be such a clear thinker!
On May 25, 2016 at 8:50 am, yardbird1947 said:
One in twenty Texans have CHLs. They walk among us every day.
They are the Polite ones.
On May 25, 2016 at 3:39 pm, Pat Hines said:
You’re right on the money, Herschel. The Gun Confiscation Lobby never rests, but this women is particularly obtuse.
Still, I’m sure she knows her audience, and wrote her short essay accordingly.
On May 25, 2016 at 4:59 pm, Jeffersonian said:
Maybe she wants us to wear special patches on our clothes too.
On May 25, 2016 at 5:32 pm, Haywood Jablome said:
I actually feel dumber having read her comments.
On May 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm, Phil Ossiferz Stone said:
She could always pretend we’re transsexual illegal aliens from Syria. Then she’d remember that embracing other people and their oddities — even the ones that, like medical castration or stoning people for sex out of wedlock or sneaking across the border with half a kilo of powder up your rectum, are not Constitutionally guaranteed birth rights — is supposed to be wonderful and specialful and proof positive that she is A Good Person.
Our society seems to have cast all the old taboos to the wind. I wonder if that’s created a vacuum that demands new ones.
On May 30, 2016 at 7:38 pm, Seerightthere! said:
My answer to this dickwad is: Don’t attempt to take away my rights and I won’t kill you.