Demi-human
maybe likes firearms a little bit…
If you go to Walmart in west Michigan you will see a handgun. That is what keeps it from being Beirut. Or Detroit.Where do you live!? Beirut!?
One misguided buffoon walked right up to me pointing at my new 1911, that I was a bit proud of, and asked loudly, leaning in as if to take it, if I knew I was wearing that in the grocery store.
(I’d like to add, I saw the group of IronMaiden aficionados walking in, but didn’t notice he was stumbling up to us. It’s not like I drew down on a drunk screaming across the parking lot, he was close enough I knew it was Kessler’s and not Jameson...
I could have been a little judgmental, he could have been a perfectly nice person that wanted to talk about his favorite model pistol while inebriated Sunday morning at a grocery store...)
Then his eyes got huge, probably almost as big as mine, as I positively hissed a hateful yes and backed my children and myself away. When we turned the aisle corner I felt the pistol click back into retention. I know why I was startled, just then I figured why he was.
That ten seconds ranks as one of the scariest I’ve known, even though there most likely was no danger, to me and mine, at all.
Me making a mistake then, or he making one more than the several he already made, could have changed our futures...
If he could have remembered it the next day I may had been charged with brandishing, even not fully drawn...
I no longer carry openly with children. They take too much attention, for/from me. My thinking evolved at the sound of that ‘click’.
We skipped shopping that day.
I answered “No, mind my own business. Why would I care?”
But, if we were both stuck standing in a checkout line somewhere, I might admire his choice, just to stave off Death By Boredom. Obviously if my judgmental self thought it would be taken warmly, first.
By then you won’t need to, you will receive “that which is enough” from .gov and like it, visibly, with a smile, or be educated...What are you going to do when there is no place left to shop?
Of course there’s always not bringing a firearm so you can get groceries.
Voting helps too, just not this year.
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