'Packing' for trip just invites trouble

Dail y Press ^ | 9/29/2002 | Jim Spencer

[Joe Brower]

'Packing' for trip just invites trouble
September 27 2002
Jim Spencer

Homeboy tightened the Velcro strap on the holster around his ankle and shoved in a snub-nosed semiautomatic pistol.

My God, I said, as I walked in the room, what are you doing?

"Packing," he said.

I can see that, I told him. You must be headed to downtown Newport News where those three guys got murdered and three others got wounded last weekend.

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[Joe Brower]

People can argue any way they want about guns, pro or con. If some people wish to be victims, then that is their right, but they have no right to demand that all of us dictate that our lives are subject to the whims of criminals. And anyone who will not act in their own self-defense, yet expects others to come to their aid simply because it is "their job", hold a point of view that is, at best, morally bankrupt.

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[Joe Brower]

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[OldSmaj]

...a snub-nosed semiautomatic pistol...

What the hell is that?

I want one too. Anybody got a source?

Typical dumbass liberal kneejerk panty-waist that thinks a gun is gonna jump out of a holster and kill him, without any conscious movement or desire of the owner.

And I don't know anyone that carries a "long-barrelled" .44 mag in a shoulder holster, especially if they are trying to conceal it.

This is just more anti-gun hysteria from the sissy boy journalists that hang on every liberal demonrat words of Gun Control, Inc.

[metesky]

Jim Spencer is full of the same tired "guns cause crime" crappola as the rest of the disarmament crowd. What a wuss.

[metesky]

And the use of the name "Homeboy" is meant to conjure an image of a slope-browed mouth breather.

Disgusting.

[umgud]

Jim Spencer is full of the same tired "guns cause crime" crappola....

Consider Vermont and Washington DC. VT has a little over 600,000 inhabitants (96.2% white)and is the only state that allows concealed carry without a ccw permit. DC is more diverse and has about 575,000 people (72.8% minorities) and totally bans handguns. There are 41.8 murders per 100K population in DC and 1.5 in VT. The DC violent crime rate is 1507 and 113 in VT.

It's not the number or caliber of guns that cause crime. It is the number and caliber of people that cause crime. Diversity is not our strength, but guns are our defense.

[Darheel]

More guns less crime bump.

In the year 2002, elections are no longer about protecting our freedoms. Elections are now about REGAINING freedoms we have already lost. It is up to us to live in 'My America' (or 'Your America), where the Constitution means what it says, and it is our task to ultimately punish those who have stolen our freedom, those democrats, socialists, and muslims who spit on our flag and hate our people because we were born 'free'.

[TC Rider]

And I don't know anyone that carries a "long-barrelled" .44 mag in a shoulder holster, especially if they are trying to conceal it.

You should meet my Dad, he carried a Army Air Corp issue .45 Colt revolver with a 6" barrel in a shoulder holster.

It was intended for pilots. The issue holster was split all the way down the front and had a spring steel clip that held it in place. My Dad is stocky and could easily carry it under a light jacket.

He 'presented' it one time while working as a construction boss in Philadelphia in the '60s. A black union shop stewart was 'admiring' my Dad's emerald and diamond ring. He cautioned my Dad to be careful one of his brothers didn't take it from him. My Dad told him he wasn't worried about it. He kept pressing it, till my Dad whupped out the Colt. My Dad said his eyes literally bugged out of his head.

His final comment was, "Mr. Rider, you'll have no problems in the city of "Brotherly Love".

[TC Rider]

Spencer the author, is an idiot.

Aside from his total lack of knowledge of firearms (snub nosed automatic?) what's he scared of?

He should know that virtually every gun control law or 'regulation' from the 30's, had more to do with Jim Crow laws than public safety.

It blows me away when the libs keep supporting some of the most racist laws on the books.

[TC Rider]

(My letter to firearms expert, Jim Spence)

Jim,

Shame on you. Your first sentence shows your total lack of knowledge on this subject.

There is no such thing as a 'snubnose' automatic pistol. It's either a snubnose revolver, or a small automatic.

My Dad carried an Army Colt .45 revolver for years under a jacket with no problems of concealment, and it was larger than most .44 magnums today.

One would almost think that you had invented this whole story, guns, 'homeboy' and all, just to make a typical liberal point about gun control.

I'm also certain the families of the two lesbians killed while camping on the Appalachian Trail a few years ago may take issue with the safety of forests and parks.

Your use of the nickname, 'homeboy', is also insulting.

Especially when used in connection with a regulation of the '30s. Aren't you aware that gun laws and regulations of the '30s are "Jim Crow" laws, intended to deprive the 'negroes' of their civil rights and to keep them disarmed?

I'm calling you a liar, or an incompent fool, and your editor should check your sources.

TC Rider
Apex, NC

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

conjure an image of a slope-browed mouth breather.

HEY! Is that a shot at us slope browed folks with alergies?

[Double Tap]

Who want to bet me that this story is a total fabrication? Any care to wager money on whether this scenario actually happened?

[Joe Brower]

I have no doubt at all that the story was totally made up. Oh, but that's just "journalist license". Anyway, it's OK for this shill to lie, after all, the ends justfies the means -- it's "for the children", after all.

[TC Rider]

I guess my biggest complaint is that this hack can't even make it believable.