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Sorry for the bitterness friends, but it's hard not to feel bitter over what I perceive (probably wrongly) as not just an egregious slight, but a miscarriage of justice that mey very well cause permanent damage to my daughter.
Worse still is the paranoia that accompanies this situation; I can't shake the feeling that the intense scrutiny under which I've been placed will only grow in intensity, and indeed be permanent in duration. My commitment to open-carrying may begin to waver, even though I know that I have a daughter to protect -- will it be seen as a threat to her wellbeing? A potential danger to which the State will feel she is being needlessly exposed (in spite of locks, serious talks, firearms education and other countermeasures)? Perhaps even be perceived as an open threat to their presence and intervention? (Of course I wouldn't open carry when in their offices and such, but once home-visits become included in their tactics, they'll have to deal with it in a more upfront manner, and that too worries me.) And would they try to use the exercise of my personal rights (in accordance with the law, of course) as an excuse to deny me my child?
I'd better stop now before I get too carried away, if I haven't already.
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