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heresolong
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The vast majority of police departments in Washington now acknowledge that open carry is legal due to our voices and education.
Huzzah!
heresolong
wrote:
What we have not done is gotten in people's faces and "put that %^&* in her place" with our information. How do you think that is going to change her attitude towards guns?
I have to word this carefully.
Look at this from a different angle. You meet a very average girl(average meaning local). She grows up in a town that is full of ignorance, bad parentingand stagnation which in this case means death. More importantly she has never been anywhere else. She is raised to be a normal social leech and does so at the best of her abilities likeall women before her. She has never gone hunting, never held a gun in her hands let alone fired one. She isindoctrinated through the schools and media that guns are a bad and evil thing that are used by criminals to slaughter innocent people. To her it's not a personal problembut without rational sense she decidesit's not a big ******* wall and that she is capable of tearing it down. So you do your best to indicate you are not doing anything wrong. Does she fold? It's not in her womanly nature to do so. Instead, she will bitch and moan until she has her way.Which is usually how she manages to get everything else.
The name caught me off guard because I didn't specifically know of her. I don't have to meet this girl to understand suchunusual and common behavior. Let me explain. I grew up surrounded by this kind of nature
all the time. One day I was tired of living my life with no future, got really pissed off and landed myself a job on the mythical planet of Arizona. For one year, I discovered how everyone truly is: the system they live in, their backgrounds, speech, abuse,pain, their pride, their beliefs and their foundationsfor all of it. Chances are that if you have ever been through Phoenix, you have met me. Unless you're poor. That is why I can identify numerous variations of this mystery I call hysteria. That is what I have learned. I left only to return to this pitiful world of Washington to discover that the people here are uninteresting and stupid. At this point you can imagine why I'm harassed so much. They haven't changed and no one has expected them to do so. Now lets look again. Would a man do that? It's possible but I doubt it. You would have to agree that his misplaced panic is all that he has and that's all there is to his world.
I would have been that man. I was raised by a single mom that still doesn't have her shit together. I was taught to be nice to girls, that drugs are bad and guns are evil. The worst part of it is that there was no father in my life to do any parenting. Which is really why I was raised wrong. So why on Earth would I encourage open carriers to exercise their rights rather than condemn them for "intimidating" other people by carrying a chunk of iron in a holster? Why would I go against the teachings that guns are evil and are to be thrown away to acquire peace? What makes a man like me stand in difference to that of the average local Lewis County girl?
Simple: I grew the **** up.
One morning during the start of my one year stay in Arizona I met an incredibleman roughly twice my age that I worked with most of that time. For privacy reasons I won't mention his whole name but he's so awesome that I shouldn't have to anyway. His name is Fred and he is the very symbol of immortality. He's the most physically fit person I have ever met and possibly the most intelligent. There are women thattravel through Phoenix requiring assistance and they ask for him by name. This makes him very busy and very rich in every aspect. He relates to hundreds of thousands of people and at the time I had no idea how or why. I asked him about why there never seems to be anything bad in his life and he took it upon me to realize that "bad shit happens in this world no matter where you are. It's best not to worry about it." Something so inherently small and simple and yet thoughout 20 years of life I had never given thought.
That is the real reason any kind of carrier exists. Because bad stuff happens no matter where you are. They're not worried about it. They have realized and accepted it! I don't care what kind of excuse you give as to why you carry.You just want to be preparedto do something about it when it happens around you and there is nothing wrong about that. Guns aren't evil because they don't have a will of their own. People are another story.
I had often made it a point to hang around the bars at night. Nothing too unusual ever happened around there because it was full ofhappy college students and crappy music. What more could anyone ask for? They don't need security because of their overwhelming power in numbers and magnetic attraction to freedom. One night I met a girl there that had been asking around about me. I came to find out that she was also from Lewis County. A little weird and very very unexpected. I usually avoid these particular women like sodomy but we talked for a while and I found that she was impressed with me for three reasons:
I moved to get my life in order.
She finally met someone from Lewis that held a respectable jobwithout a drugaddiction.
If I ever returned I would have a lot more to tell anyone else
because very few people from Lewis ever leave toexperience the real world.
I don't remember her name butthese days I realize how true that last line really is. You can tell this barista whatever you want and it won't make a lick of difference. She could be held up at knifepoint every morning and it wouldn't matter. Until she realizes the truth about people, she will always be a leech, she will always be suckered into abusive relationships
and she will not grow up.
Unfortunately I don't know of any ways to force the change but you can still work around it. Since men are rational human beings, it'seasier to inform them of the truth rather than being stuck on every emotionally screwed girl that panics because youcarry something that doesn't have her understanding let alone respect. I believe this is leading me to understand why there is so much trouble in the OC movement. You have a tendency to treat every pebble in your way like a brick wall. It seems stupid but after looking at this from a legal perspective, it's a genuine problem.Because most Lewis residents don't understand their own rights, OCers like G.U.N. understand that it's simply a lot worse than it needs to be. I understand his frustration. Anyone that can put up with thisis asuperman.
