This is the final sorry episodeof the story reported some time ago about the woman who liked to attend various community and social functions like soccer games etc. while packing heat.
Nah, this thread is the final sorry episode.
Can’t even get two sentences of snark outta ya?
What’s this world coming to?
I mean, female sex organs on flowers are “pistils.”
A gun is twenty different kinds of a phallic symbol.
Soccer games- “she shoots, she scores…”
And those are just off the top of my head and I have no dog in this fight.
Come ON, man. This shit doesn’t write itself. You gotta help us out here.
It is kind of sad that she had to go through the hassle of going to court to get her license back. From the article, it appears she is not a danger to the community, and there was no legal justification to revoke her carry permit. Hopefully, the Sheriff will learn the error of his ways.
What’s kinda funny about the whole thing is that the sheriff’s revocation of her concealed carry permit does not affect her ability to lawfully carry her pistol in the manner that provoked the incident in the first place: unlicensed unconcealed carry of a firearm is legal in Pennsylvania.
The linked story says that she wore her holstered pistol to a soccer game; I would take that to mean that she openly carried a pistol. Does PA law allow for open carry? If it does, I don’t see where CCW comes into question. But it is still early in the morning and I haven’t had my coffee.
So I can strap on my six shooters and walk down the Main Street in AnyTown PA? Holy shit, and my nieces call me a redneck because I drive a truck, shoot varmits and drink beer. Not at the same time mind you.
Sure. If you’re a lawabiding citizen, why not?
Of course, there are limitations on Federal Buildings and some rules regarding school, which I don’t know off the top of my head (not being a current pistol owner).
What the heck did she do that was wrong? Scaring people? That’s a crime now?
Why exactly did she feel a need to have a weapon with her at a soccer game for 5 year olds? Disputing a call by the teenage emo ref is so 1993.
She runs a day care, not a liquor store.
I grew up surrounded by guns and I can say I never once felt the need to pack heat to any children’s events. Home parties, yes. Family reunions, yes. children’s parties, no.
Is there some kind of freeper/NRA meme going on where people who believe in the right to bear arms MUST pack heat at all times to ward off the imminent Obama gun grab or something? Because I’ve been hearing more and more about people strapping (IMHO) unnecessarily.
I am supportive of the right to bear arms, but there is some seriously weird stuff going on in this area right now, and I have a bad feeling about it.
Plenty of people who carry tend to carry all the time. There’s no magic way to know that, say, going to eat at Luby’s is going to turn into a life-and-death situation.
There’s been a thing going on for some time where some gun rights advocates are encouraging legally able gun owners carrying everywhere it is legal to carry, in order to improve the public perception of firearms owners (on the grounds that while people will be upset at first, the more experience people have with seeing law-abiding normal folks packing pistols, the more they’ll realize most gun owners are not actually insane). The basic theory is that exercising one’s rights in a safe and publicly visible manner, while being as non-threatening as possible given the context, is a way of guaranteeing those rights by making the general populace more comfortable with the expression thereof.
It’s been going on for at least a decade in some places–it’s more of an ongoing reaction to the Brady Campaign than anything else.
Obviously, this strategy has its pros and cons.
–Z, PA CCW holder who doesn’t even own a pistol at this point.
QFT.
If I were the type of person who thought I’d need a handgun for self-defense (like, say, if I lived in Reading, having been mugged there a few times over the course of a three-month internship with no car and walking from shitty cheap housing to Albright and back (this detail solely for people who know Reading–I was living down about three miles southish of the campus on 11th), I would have it with me all the time on the grounds that the danger of any particular activity is unpredictable.
I mean, I DO still carry a fairly serious folding-bladed knife because you just never know. I don’t think anyone other than my wife knows that, and I don’t take it anywhere if I’m going to have so much as a beer.
Personally, it would have the opposite effect on me.
Incidentally, the sheriff is totally wrong here. Not only is open carry totally legal except in certain facilities like government buildings and schools in PA, but PA is a shall-issue CCW state. But I’ll bet you knew that.
Yeah, definitely pros and cons.
Obviously, we only hear about the nutbags; the responsible gun owners who mind their own business, etc., aren’t newsworthy.
Yeah, which is pretty much why I don’t advocate it–that’s the con. There are people who are (not entirely wrongly) of the opinion that a visible weapon, even properly and safely holstered, is a threatening thing.
Would your impression change if you started seeing more people doing it and otherwise not changing their behaviors? I know most of the people I saw in my youth who were open-carrying were doing it out of a bravura thing and it was obvious from the way they would swagger around and that kinda crap–what if that element was much less common as a percentage of gun-carriers?
But why did revoking her license make her vagina close up? Did she carry her gun down there?
Hubby wanted in on the cash grab.
When I was growing up, in the country a gun was basically a tool - they were there, they were somewhat dangerous - like a chainsaw or axe. No-one thought than much about them. But then, these were long guns - shotguns and rifles.
People would sometimes carry them about in the back of their truck or the trunk of their car. No-one much cared.
The difference between this and open pistol-packing is that the latter is intended to make more of a statement - an intimidating statement.
I take it the idea is that open carry will transform people’s opinions until people generally view pistol carrying as people in the country when I was young viewed guns - just another tool, gotta take care of course, but nothing to note. Thing is, I strongly doubt that will ever happen. They are in both cases guns, but their intended use and social significance are quite different.