Posted on 11/09/2015 1:16:13 PM PST by marktwain
I stopped to fuel up at a local gas station. The price was $1.93 a gallon. I was open carrying my old Glock 17. As I came out the door, the biker was standing beside this beautiful Indian motorcycle. I said "Nice bike", and he replied, "What are you carrying?"
Glock 17, I said, and he pulled open his vest to show me his S&W M&P. He was an armed biker. His vest proudly proclaimed that he was a Vietnam Vet. I said that while I had been in service during Vietnam, my tour was in California, at Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation (now Ft. Hunter Liggett), mostly shut down in one of the several rounds of base closures in the 90's. But, hey, somebody has to be a REMF (Rear Echelon type). He said he didn’t meet many Army Vets in Yuma, they were nearly all Marines... and he was right.
Then he offered me a Bible, as he was handing them out at the gas station. So we had quite a few things in common: Armed, veteran, Christian, motorcycle riders. We hit it off.
Jimmy hands out Bibles quite regularly. He had been wanting to carry for quite a while, but had been putting off getting a permit. It just stuck in his craw a to ask the government for permission. Then Arizona passed Constitutional, or "permitless" carry, and he started carrying regularly. He says it is a major reason why he loves Arizona.
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I waited several years to get my concealed carry license for exactly the same reason. I hate the fact that the state requires me to have a license to carry a weapon when this privilege is guaranteed by the second amendment.
“I hate the fact that the state requires me to have a license to carry a weapon when this privilege is guaranteed by the second amendment.”
Your sentiment is correct, but it is a right, not a privilege.
Beautiful Indian motorcycle.
Why would Barbie not want to own that Indian?
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