I noticed something a little interesting about people who pack heat recently.
This came about when I went in to a pawn shop looking for a good deal on an air compressor. This is not the ghetto, but not the nicest neighborhood either, so it's perfectly understandable that the people in the pawn shops are cautious of everyone new who walks through the door. I have lived in the area for a while but only been in that shop a few times, and mostly just took care of business and left, so they were as cautious of me as they are of everyone else.
That changed the second to last time I was in there. The owner happened to be there and we ended up in a conversation in which I revealed that I was a gun guy, and they seamed to be highly convinced of it when I started bringing up company names that are usually only well known by gun people, like CDNN and Numrich for example.
Then we started talking about CCW stuff where they learned that I am a "heat packing" type. Kinda funny since I was apparently one of the few customers who admitted to them that I am a gun owner. In other words, they no longer wonder if I am armed, they KNOW that I am.
One might think that I would have been kicked out of the store, but you'd be wrong. I walked in to the store once since then and I was kindly greeted as if a highly welcomed customer.
In the process, I had earned their trust and respect, as someone who knows right from wrong and lives accordingly. That's when I realized that I had encountered this situation over and over again in the past.
In a Wal Mart or fast food place, being a gun person can get you some uneasy looks, but among the more conservative private establishments, being a gun person is almost like a trademark of a self-responsible person with a sense of justice and good friend to have.
Bare in mind that we are talking about California. I can only imagine what it must be like in some of the other, more conservative states.
This came about when I went in to a pawn shop looking for a good deal on an air compressor. This is not the ghetto, but not the nicest neighborhood either, so it's perfectly understandable that the people in the pawn shops are cautious of everyone new who walks through the door. I have lived in the area for a while but only been in that shop a few times, and mostly just took care of business and left, so they were as cautious of me as they are of everyone else.
That changed the second to last time I was in there. The owner happened to be there and we ended up in a conversation in which I revealed that I was a gun guy, and they seamed to be highly convinced of it when I started bringing up company names that are usually only well known by gun people, like CDNN and Numrich for example.
Then we started talking about CCW stuff where they learned that I am a "heat packing" type. Kinda funny since I was apparently one of the few customers who admitted to them that I am a gun owner. In other words, they no longer wonder if I am armed, they KNOW that I am.
One might think that I would have been kicked out of the store, but you'd be wrong. I walked in to the store once since then and I was kindly greeted as if a highly welcomed customer.
In the process, I had earned their trust and respect, as someone who knows right from wrong and lives accordingly. That's when I realized that I had encountered this situation over and over again in the past.
In a Wal Mart or fast food place, being a gun person can get you some uneasy looks, but among the more conservative private establishments, being a gun person is almost like a trademark of a self-responsible person with a sense of justice and good friend to have.
Bare in mind that we are talking about California. I can only imagine what it must be like in some of the other, more conservative states.