I’ll report back in another year to let you know how the gun laws are doing in Arizona.

I agree with those who believe that the more people see civilians carrying guns WILL desensitize them.

I will keep in mind Mr. Cramer’s staunch opposition to this and when gun control measures are not passed in Arizona restriciting our open carry rights, I will send him an e-mail reminding him of him being just like the anti-gunners who made claims before every state passed their concealed weapon permit laws that blood would be flowing in the streets if those laws were passed. They’ve been wrong 100% of the time and I am confident he will be wrong on this time.

The problem with people who predict doom and gloom will never give a time frame of when the world will come to an end (a bit of exaggeration there). Just like the global warming people, they will never tell you when the world will come to an end so we can’t nail them down and prove them wrong definitively.

Guess I’ll just do this on an annual basis for Mr. Kramer, but he’ll still have the ability (and I predict he will) keep saying it will happen. Just like the global warming people.

Any state that licenses concealment but not open carry is not a state with a ‘better alternative’ to open carry.

A petty criminal, a government, or a foreign invader can secure your home at any time. If this is where you keep your arms at all times, you will have no readily available arms by which to defend yourself.

If OC ‘offends’ people, and government action comes of it, it is simply time for another revolution. We should always act in good conscience toward our philosophies, instead of limiting ourselves in fear of how some people might react, because in the end we shall always have liberty, whether it was easily received or it had to be violently taken.

Back in the 1950s, high schoolers carried (cased) target rifles on NYC subways, and no one thought this to be out of the ordinary. Back in the 1960s, ABC’s “American Sportsman” was a very popular television show featuring some of America’s most successful and respected entertainers actually hunting and shooting, and killing game. And no one thought this to be out of the ordinary. Back in the 1970s at my high school we brought guns to school during hunting season and shot on high school rifle teams, and no one thought that a teenager taking a gun to school was out of the ordinary.

Here we are, 30+ years later, and now the culture has changed so that owning a gun and possessing or carrying it openly in public are seen as abnormal and threatening. Why? Because the small minority of anti-gun folks have done a very good job of getting the media to carry their message that gun ownership is somehow equivalent to mental deviancy. Forget taking a target rifle to school. We now suspend first graders if they sneak a PICTURE of a gun, or forget to remove a toy soldier from their backpack, or want to show off their first Cub Scout camping knife complete with fork and spoon.

The best way to change the law is to change people’s opinions. Yes, the first time that family sees a gunowner carrying openly, it is a shock to them… the way they were shocked the first time they saw a gay couple kiss each other in public. Eventually, if enough gunowners carry openly and responsibly, the zeitgeist will change so that gun ownership will once again be accepted as normal, and only the loons will freak at the sight of an otherwise-calm person carrying a firearm in public.

Thataboy! Keep writing my friend! You are the gun control advocates’ walking, posting, wetdream. Singlehandedly–typing with one hand while holding a gun and/or your tiny crank in the other–you do irreparable damage to others’ Second Amendment rights with every keystroke.

Yes, you’re the kind of guy who shouldn’t be allowed to handle his own, inadequate, never-used wienie–let alone something you could actually hurt someone with.

So c’mon son! Give me “both barrels” again in one of your rants!

LOL!

You certainly played up, (down?), to his characterization.

I felt like I was redaing William S. Burroughs’ “stream of consciousness” style on one of his particularly bad days.

“BTW :Never drink real coffee before shooting;it can ruin your aim!”

Depends what you’re shooting at, doesn’t it?