You'll shoot your foot off, Matt.
Posted on 03/19/2010 7:20:22 AM PDT by marktwain
A growing grassroots movement across the United States is seeing public meetings of armed citizens gathering together just to prove their right to gather in public with weapons. I'm sure many Canadians are appalled by the very thought, but there really isn't anything wrong with a bunch of people standing around in a park with holsters on their hips.
What's provoked the controversy has been the increasing number of these meetings that are occurring in those shrines to urban leftism — Starbucks coffee shops. Symbols matter in politics. Rightly or wrongly, Starbucks coffee shops have indeed become synonymous with lefty, latte-swilling urbanites. While plenty of right-wingers and apolitical types enjoy getting their caffeine fix there, too, there's enough truth to the perception to have made Starbucks the location of choice for those Americans eager to flaunt their Second Amendment rights. As reported here, Starbucks shops have become meeting points for Americans testing the boundaries of the right to carry arms in 43 states.
The advocates of Open Carry (wearing a holstered handgun in plain sight, as opposed to the more typical option of Concealed Carry, where it is obscured under a shirt or jacket) believe that their right to bear arms includes the right to do so publicly and overtly. While I support, in theory, the right of a citizen of carry a weapon for self-defence, I've never considered such to be a practical option for Canada, so I've admired those Americans who've stood by their belief that a responsible armed citizen is an effective way of deterring crime and maintaining law and order in the absence of uniformed authority. (After all, the closest cop sometimes isn't close enough). All the same, there are implications to Open Carry that go beyond merely the right to self-defence.
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I like that.
America is the only place left...
Starbucks is only a shrine to leftism if the area its in are leftist. In my city Starbucks caters primarily to a Republican crowd because of where they’re located.
Yes, it is, and let's please keep it that way. Personally, I hate Starbucks; so I carry my .45 to Dunkin' Donuts.
You'll shoot your foot off, Matt.
It's also reasonable to imagine that the profane language using loudmouth might reconsider his behavior if those around him also had a giant cannon strapped to their thighs.
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