Posted on 09/06/2012 12:46:38 PM PDT by marktwain
The media/Libs wouldn’t like my English Long Bow, my Recurve Bow, or my Cross Bow either.
I admit its kinda fun to go into a major supermarket in Arizona, and the guy behind you in line is wearing a gun pistols. Even better is that nobody raises an eyebrow
Did I mention that people are very polite here?
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What were we talking about?
Delete pistol.....sheesh.
I might very well be one of those you see wearing a pistol. You are forgiven!
I bow to you....
Actually there is such a thing, but it's not what the media call it. "Assault rifle" is a military term for a rifle that shoots a medium sized cartrige and has both auto and semi-auto capability. "Assault weapon" is a made up term.
Folks in Arizona travel unarmed at their own risk!
Back in the Sixties my wife's family drove a station wagon. They visited family in New York, and were asked about the trip. She told her cousins that they only had to cirlce the station wagons twice on the trip back East. And they believed her!
And I thought I was stretching it a bit when I told how the Japanese engineers and military men that I took out shooting were always looking at the horizon, watching for hostile indians!
Not stretching it at all!
” Once you leave town out here (although you don’t really have to) everything you see wants to either bite, sting, or stick you.
Folks in Arizona travel unarmed at their own risk! “
You need a gun here that’s for sure. Two years ago, I found a rattler which must have been on steroids in my back yard. We have mountain lions too.
I remember first visiting AZ before the concealed carry law was passed, and it was very common to see people packing a pistol on their hip, even ordinary-looking suburban moms pushing their kid in a stroller. After the CCW law was passed, you only rarely see people carrying openly, but of course just as many people are carrying, probably more, and you just don’t see it.
Some folks may find that disturbing, but I find it reassuring.
“Once you leave town out here...”
Or if you even just live on the edge of town. In my folks’ backyard, I’ve seen tarantulas, five foot long snakes, bobcats, coyotes, great horned owls... and I’m only there for a week or so a year.
” Or if you even just live on the edge of town. In my folks’ backyard, I’ve seen tarantulas, five foot long snakes, bobcats, coyotes, great horned owls...”
Oh yeah, bobcats and tarantulas!
You remind me of a baseball practice when a rattler slithered across the path that led to the field. One of the dads went back to find it, and he killed it with a stick. No gun needed. I could be wrong, but I don’t think any of the dads carried. I always felt safe around them when hubby wasn’t around.
I recall a baseball game when a snake slithered into the outfield. One of the boys noticed it and called an umpire over. The umpire had no inclination toward dealing with the snake. So a coach from the other team marched out there and did some Snake Whispering or something. I think he picked it up and threw it on the other side of the fence. It was great! It was obviously not a rattler. :-)
Bears, Bobcats, & Javalenas as well.
The majority of anti-gun zealots have never fired a firearm. At my wife’s CC permit class, a young lady getting her carry permit at the insistence of her boyfriend was crying because she had never fired a gun and was scared to death. Wisely he had a .22 semi-auto pistol for her to shoot. By the end of qualifying, she was giggling because she was having so much fun.
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