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In reply to the discussion: Professor Has Simple Way To Deal With Open Carry Activists(VIDEO at Link) [View all]hunter
(38,471 posts)... I'm even more inclined to throw food.
My brother once owned a rather rough beer-drinking establishment.
He's a big guy and he kept a monster aluminum softball bat underneath the counter.
He never had any trouble asking customers to leave. Especially armed customers.
He's got some funny "fools with guns" stories. So do I.
As children we once saw my mom take someone's gun and break it. Poor pathetic fool ran away yelling "I'm gonna sue you!," leaving both his precious gun and his dignity behind. He never did sue.
I think that's where my brother and I got the Berserker genes.
I can't help but notice that "open carry" fools never venture into places where gun violence is a real problem.
I live in a place where gun violence is a real problem.
On that Slate magazine gun violence survey I got this result:
There have been 7 shootings within a 1-mile radius of this point in the past year, 5 fatal and 2 non-fatal.
This is one of the better neighborhoods of our city. I feel safe here. I've never felt any need to carry a gun and I've lived in many rougher places.
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