Posted on 10/04/2008 6:35:30 AM PDT by marktwain
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:15 AM, RG in Arizona wrote:
While walking the dog this morning, side arm open carry, I noticed a car tracking me and the man driving the car was on a cell phone looking all upset. I tried not to make eye contact with the man and just kept walking.
I turned into the floodway park and let the dog run free for about ten minutes and noticed the car was still there and the man was still on the phone. I came out of the floodway and on the way back to the street I noticed two Gilbert policemen--one a supervisor, and Concerned Citizen (Out of Towner by his license plate-NJ) looking at me. Damn I must be good looking-or maybe it was the dog. As I hit the sidewalk I said "good morning" generically and kept walking towards the house. The two policemen said Good Morning and Out of Towner-Concerned Citizen mentioned that we people were nuts. About 5/10 minutes later the Lieutenant came by the house to make sure I wasn't uspset or bothered by this. Very polite young man.
Perhaps people in New Jersey don't walk their dogs.
How right you are. I’m a middle aged female that taught concealed carry classes for many years here in SE Arizona. I always carry, and have had similar experiences when I have open carried. Our officers usually politely inform the out-of-state visitor that that’s the way we like it here.
One time when I was living in Tempe I pulled into a Circle K to get some gas I noticed an attractive and very young woman looking rather impatient sitting in her car at the pump next to me .As I walked in to pay she started laying on the horn. I looked around didn’t see anything unusual and went on about my business .Picked up a soda got in line to pay when the woman stormed in and yelled “well isn’t someone going to pump my gas” .
Everyone looked around at each other and I believe that the general consensus was NO.
Suddenly I realized that we were just down the street from ASU and it was the time of year for freshman to report .
So I spoke up and said”youse frum Joisey aintcha”.
New Jersey may be the only state where you aren’t allowed to pump your own gas and sure enough she was a Jersey girl and literally didn’t realize it was possible to pump gas into your own car let alone know how to.
“Open carry is legal in Texas ONLY for shotguns and rifles”
People always seem to say Texas is a gun friendly State, yet, I find they are more restrictive that most other States. Colorado has open carry. We even went further to say that any local government banning open carry must post such a law at all entrances; roads, sidewalks, airports, etc. That really put a crawl in Denver’s shorts.
You can’t pump your own gas in Jersey? Why on earth not??
I don't know about NJ and dogs, but there's no perhaps about this. Clearly a majority of the people who vote in NJ are brain dead liberal Democrats who would rather let their homes be invaded, their money and goods plundered, their wives and daughters raped, etc, than to allow law abiding citizens to own or carry handguns. The NJ tourist thinks Arizonans are nuts because he is no doubt one of the NJ brain dead liberal Democrats, and the concept of self defense is alien to his kind of statist thinking.
I feel sorry for the people who are stuck in NJ or any similar NE state who don't think the way the majority there think. But as for me, no job, business, or other attachment would keep me stuck in a liberal hellhole like that where the Constitution is for all practical purposes dead and buried. Of course if enough voters are insane enough to elect Obama it may not matter what state you live in, because they will all soon be forced to become carbon copies of NJ, NY, MA, and CA.
As a refugee from the "Garden Sate" I can honestly state that there were NO Republicans there before I left.
Now, there were metrosexuals that claimed they were Republicans, but standing side by side with a Democrat, there was absolutely no difference.
The citizenry in N.J. are not allowed to vote for anyone espousing the ideals of our Founding Fathers.
It's the law.
“You can’t pump your own gas in Jersey? Why on earth not??”
I guess the pump jockeys are unionized.
Nanny State .
That and it's a way to keep Muslims employed
Good story. You can't pump your own in Oregon either.
And the Oreogon courts are just as corrupt!
“You can’t pump your own gas in Jersey? Why on earth not??”
In parts of metro Detroit, all pumps are designed to that you can’t walk away from the nozzle while it’s filling (usually that little catch thingy removed).
I soon figured out my own little devices that would allow me to walk away, which were probably less safe than the OEM device was.
Sans leash, of course.
Please spare the generalities. As a New Jersey dog owner, gun owner, and good neighbor in a Red county I can state that you are wrong on all counts. I'd speculate that the LibTard in the article must be from up north and or associated with academia.
When those same folks move down to the DC area we have a rash of such events.
BTW, we have open carry too. Just strap it on and walk around.
It doesn’t have to be concealed.
Same here in GA. A lot of people who have recently moved here from northern states or CA are alarmed when they see someone OCing and on a few rare occasions some of them try to get a cop to arrest him. Typical brainwashed ninnies who have bought the lie that LEOs are everywhere all the time and are all the protection from criminals that they need or want.
I don't OC myself because I don't want to tip off a potential threat that I'm armed and give him the advantage of deciding how to make his move before I know I'm being attacked. But many others think just the opposite, and I suppose there are some good arguments for either side of that issue. But if I am OCing in a 7-11 when an armed robber walks in and sees my gun it's probable that either he is going to turn and leave or I'm gonna be the first one shot in that store, and I don't want that second option to be listed as cause of death on my death certificate.
Oregon also. No sales tax either. I love driving through Oregon.
“”Never been quail hunting?”
NOT with My Lab on a LEASH, no, never. Have You?
I grew up in NJ during my “formidable” years and found it was fantastic that I was able to pump my own gas when I moved from there.
What’s funny to me is that I visit family now and then in NJ and usually forget the first time I need gas there that they have to pump the gas for you. I’d find this out because every time I get out of the car and walk toward my gas cap a “petroleum transfer engineer” (a.k.a. gas-jockey) comes running toward me and in broken English tells me, “I must pump gas”.
They also give me a very sheepish look like I’m up to something if I continue to stand outside my car. It’s incredibly funny to me every time I go there it’s the same thing (different gas-jockey).
It's against the law. New Jersey citizens aren't smart enough to pump their own gas, {or they wouldn't be NYJ citizens} so the law makers are just protecting them from themselves.
Kinda like not smoking in the Atlantic City Casinos which are now suffering from a 24% decline in revenues.
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