Posted on 09/04/2009 8:54:03 PM PDT by marktwain
To the editor:
I carry a gun everywhere I go in Flagstaff. I carry at the bank, I carry at the grocery store, I carry when I go check the mail. Any business with a sign that says "no weapons" does not get my business. I do not have a permit to carry a gun, as you do not need one in our great state. I carry a gun for one reason; guns save lives. According to a study by The University of Florida a person defends himself with a gun every 53 seconds. According to the NCIPC, a homicide is committed with a gun every 48 minutes.
I would like local businesses in our community to wake up and realize what restricting guns does. Criminals do not obey rules. It seems a simple fact, yet businesses in our community still post "no weapons" signs. Criminals will ignore your sign while people lawfully possessing a weapon will follow your rule. Posting a "no weapons" sign is as good as a "come rob me, no one will stop you" sign.
The day I need a gun to solve a problem is going to be a terrible day, but much better than the day I needed a gun to solve a problem and I didn't have one. I'm not strong enough to carry a cop on my back, so I carry a gun on my hip.
Get smart, Flagstaff; arm yourself.
Georgia needs to get on board with this.The way its supposed to be.
I carried a gun for many years in Lousiana before it was legal to do so.
At the time my Dad told me...
“I’d rather come bail you outta jail, than to have to identify you at the morgue.”
I went to college in Flagstaff in the 1970’s. Across Milton Avenue from campus was the “Pic-quik” market where you could buy guns and beer. No one saw anything wrong with it at the time and crime was minimal.
“Don’t Californicate Arizona” bumperstickers were ubiquitous. They didn’t work. Flagstaff’s full of Lefties, now, from what I hear.
That is unfortunate to hear. :-(
It would be interesting to determine what inspired them to move to a freedom-loving state like Arizona.
I think it’s rude to carry openly. Arizona has an excellent concealed carry program (a friend just got a permit only 8 days after taking the class and sending in the application).
Go armed, but keep it out of sight.
Besides, it’ll scare all the hippies at NAU.
“According to a study by The University of Florida a person defends himself with a gun every 53 seconds.” WOW! Where does that guy live? (Old joke)
Ping
I don't even carry a gun, and these signs really irritate me. What kind of a moron thinks his store is safer because a sign will make it violence free? Don't answer because I know what kind of moron. The kind we have in the White House.
Unfortunately, you’re correct. Flag has been turned into an artsy-fartsy town for liberal morons. It used to be a great “cowboy” town.
So what
I don't know why they came. As a native, I felt the state should have had a strict interstate immigration policy.
No one cares what you think (feel) pal.
Here in Michigan, we can open-carry or conceal-carry.
There are situations where each one has it’s advantages.
(And review the spelling in your tagline.)
They come to Flagstaff because it’s a nice place to live and has a great “party-school” university.
The libs seem to have taken over all the best places - Sedona, AZ for example.
Others of us came here for work, and as refugees from California. Unfortunately, too many California refugees bring their stupid political ideas with them.
Maybe they are morons for posting “no weapons” signs, but it’s their freedom to do so—a freedom we should all cherish and protect. Now if we can just get the anti-smoking Nazis to back off on telling business owners whether they can allow smoking or not.
No one cares what you think (feel) pal.Up yours too. It's that sort of attitude that gives legal gun owners a bad name.
I used to carry concealed in AZ in a fanny pack, until a judge decided that was illegal. Then I carried openly when out in the woods with my daughter, and I could tell that it bothered some perfectly fine folks. Now, with CCW, I can (and maybe do) carry concealed again.
Conservatives tend to be more polite than leftists. There appear to be some egregious exceptions in this comment thread.
I carried a gun in FL and many other states before it was legal to do so, and I would do it again if the CCW laws are ever repealed. The supreme law of the land is the US Constitution, and the Supremes recently ruled correctly what 99% of the American people have always known, namely, that the 2nd Amendment applies to the people, not the states. How could the phrase "the right of the people" be interpreted to mean anything but THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE?
I was saved from being a victim of a serious crime on two separate occasions by having a gun in my possession even though it was not legal for me to have it in some of the areas that I frequently traveled. In neither incident was I required to fire the gun in self defense, the mere display of the gun and my obvious intention to use it if necessary was all that was needed to end the two potentially deadly confrontations.
And I would like to see every law abiding citizen carry any way they choose.
Flagstaff is FULL of libtards now. You can’t do an armpit fart without elbowing one of them.
INDEED.
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