SIGdude
Regular Member
Went to the new Dog Park in Baraboo with my wife today, took our two pooches. Nice place. It has a double fenced area, splitting it so that if you want your dogs seperated by chain link, you can do so. We went into the smaller section as nobody was occupying it.
Our dogs were playing around and the dogs from the other side of the fence came up, being followed by several small children. The oldest boy, I would guess about 6, asked why I had a gun in my pocket. I told him because it was a right I was allowed. He asked if I was a cop, to which I obviously replied no. It is just my right to carry this gun with me when I go places and I do it to keep my wife and myself safe. He seemed to get it, just smiled and said ok, and went back to playing with his new puppy.
A few minutes later, another gentleman and his two kids showed up with a smaller dog and brought them into the the side of the fence we were on. I walked down and greeted him; told him my dogs might get a little loud and excited, but they wouldn't be biting his puppy or his kids and they were on e-collars.
He asked me what was with the gun; I obviously went a little deeper into it than I did with the 6 year old. Told him It was a constitutionally protected second amendment right for me to do so and was the only legal means of carrying a firearm at this time. Told him about the open carry movement and how we really are just normal people that want to have an extra level of safety in our lives.
Seemed to fall on deaf ears. Shortly thereafter he packed his kids and puppy up and went walking out, asked if he was leaving already, said he was just stopping by on the way home from the store to check out the new park. Oh well.
You can't win 'em all.
Our dogs were playing around and the dogs from the other side of the fence came up, being followed by several small children. The oldest boy, I would guess about 6, asked why I had a gun in my pocket. I told him because it was a right I was allowed. He asked if I was a cop, to which I obviously replied no. It is just my right to carry this gun with me when I go places and I do it to keep my wife and myself safe. He seemed to get it, just smiled and said ok, and went back to playing with his new puppy.
A few minutes later, another gentleman and his two kids showed up with a smaller dog and brought them into the the side of the fence we were on. I walked down and greeted him; told him my dogs might get a little loud and excited, but they wouldn't be biting his puppy or his kids and they were on e-collars.
He asked me what was with the gun; I obviously went a little deeper into it than I did with the 6 year old. Told him It was a constitutionally protected second amendment right for me to do so and was the only legal means of carrying a firearm at this time. Told him about the open carry movement and how we really are just normal people that want to have an extra level of safety in our lives.
Seemed to fall on deaf ears. Shortly thereafter he packed his kids and puppy up and went walking out, asked if he was leaving already, said he was just stopping by on the way home from the store to check out the new park. Oh well.
You can't win 'em all.