Here in South Texas it often seems as if EVERYONE is carrying a gun.
Recently, I was shopping at a HEB supermarket when a woman ran up to a uniformed LEO, who was “working security” at the store & exclaimed, “That guy over there, in the green shirt, is carrying a pistol!!”
The LEO responded, “Ma’am, This is TEXAS & YES, he most likely is.”
The LEO politely did NOT say, “You’re not from here, are you?”
(I just HAD to chuckle “under my breath”.)
Yours, TMN78247
Heck, even here in GA, approximately 5% of the adult population has a Georgia Weapons License.
A few weeks ago we had a situation where an illegal protest / riot shut down a major intersection of two multi-lane boulevards in the City of Atlanta, enforced by goons carrying rifles. A guy caught up in traffic in the situation decided he would pause to get his AR out of the trunk. He ended up driving over the curb, on the sidewalk, maybe through a parking lot to get around the impromptu enforced George Floyd Moment of Silence that these idiots were imposing on the motoring public, and had shots fired at him/his car. No one was hit, and he didn’t return fire, but THAT could have been a complete mess.
Naturally none of this was reported in the local media, but there are multiple videos of the event still up at Twitter.