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HankT wrote:
Phoenixphire wrote:
Here is a thread all about OC of long arms.
I am thinking about getting a shotgun to OC, just for the hell of it.
This idea of a few people is not seeming like a useful exercise.
And why not? Few firearms are more effective at a defensive range than a shotgun. By few I mean none.
As far as carrying a long gun personally, I have. I don't every day, but I won't say I will never again. It has its place.
To answer your question on how it is 'tactical', well, take into consideration the environment of your destination and your errands. If you are traveling outside the city, for example, an altercation may require a little more range than your sidearm allows.
If people are scared, that is the government and media's fault, not ours. In 1776, I challenge you to find one case where someone was told to leave because his rifle was not welcome. I will go further to say that when the constitution was being drafted, it was a time when handguns were a lot less common and less practical than long guns, and elaborate to say that there is almost no question that the right to keep and bear arms was referring to long guns as well.
I support all our rights, including some that the state government doesn't.
I do not support all of this flaming, insulting, bickering, sand-in-your-vagina bull@#$% that has been going on on this forum the last couple of days.
We are a COMMON PEOPLE with a COMMON GOAL
We are DIVIDED AMONGST OURSELVES, and it is TAKING US AWAY FROM THE REAL ISSUES AT HAND.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THOSE OPPOSED TO OUR RIGHTS WANT AND INTEND TO HAPPEN. THE ONLY WAY TO COLLAPSE US IS FROM THE INSIDE.
'Because I can' is a fantastic answer in my book.
I have the right to pursue happiness. It is no coincidence that happiness is a warm gun.
The incidents that have happened, yeah, just another hurdle. We can get over them because the law is on our side.
What pisses me off, and what I have a harder time forgiving, is CRUCIFYING OUR OWN FOR EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS, even if they are doing it differently than you are.
WE COMPLAIN THAT LEOs ILLEGALLY HASSLE US WHEN WE ARE IN THE RIGHT, WHEN THE LAW IS ON OUR SIDE, and then what do we do?
...We hassle ourselves internally for something that meets that exact same description.
We complain about Lansing/Warren/Jackson PD... when some of us are BEING Lansing/Warren/Jackson PD.
And lastly as a side note:
in most pics another person can access the firearm faster then the person carrying the thing
They just aren't carrying the right rig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXeOYy-atc
Once armed, a free man cannot be disarmed. Only defeated.
/rant