"...just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done."
Let's not mince words, not only is it rare, it's downright weird and certainly not a practical way to go normally about your business while being prepared to defend yourself. To those who are not acquainted with the dubious practice of using public displays of firearms as a means to draw attention to oneself or one's cause, it can be downright scary. It makes folks who might normally be perfectly open-minded about firearms feel uncomfortable and question the motives of pro-gun advocates...
More to the point, it's just not neighborly, which is out of character for the big-hearted residents of Texas. Using guns merely to draw attention to yourself in public not only defies common sense, it shows a lack of consideration and manners. That's not the Texas way. And that's certainly not the NRA way.
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Face it, NRA - the nutjob genie is out of the bottle
The open-carry whackos who are going around scaring the crap out of people at Jack-in-the-Box and Home Depot are not some weirdos who magically appeared out of thin air. Nope, these are the people who drank the Kool-Aid you've been pushing for years. Don't act so surprised!
Yes, indeed. When you spend
(in reply to Greg H)
Yes, indeed. When you spend millions (billions?) of dollars over several decades preaching an unyielding, cartoonish second amendment orthodoxy, it should not be surprising to see unyielding, cartoonish orthodox adherents wandering around with assault weapons, "asserting their rights."
This is concurrent and overlapping with the Tea Party crazies who have carried on after the 2009 Tea Party rallies that were fabricated by Fox and Friends.
It's just incitement, plain and simple.
Translation:
"Stop acting--in public--like the gun fetishists we all are."
A good place to post this
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I thought this was pretty cool.