A gentleman wakling down my street with a gun..its a beautiful thing..

well, i wish i could share your enthusiasm. unfortunately in ca, the 2nd amendment might as well not exist. freaking arbitrary backwards laws that sinks the DOJ into a deeper hole than they already are in. by a deep hole, i do mean the proverbial cauldron in which they throw our guns in and melt them down. then they make new playgrounds or fences

around here, you usually go up to the mountains for OC. walk into a liquor store and marvel at how many people hold the door open for you, say please, & thank you, and dont give a crap about the 45 strapped on your side. SWAT doesnt show up, and people actually smile at you instead of give you a dirty look. try that around my town of Huntington Beach.

i find that people in the midwest/mountain/small type towns tend to favor firearms more. while the more hippie oriented, tofu eating city people seem to shun it entirely. which is humorous considering the pseudo-liberal attitudes they carry as they smoke their pot on a daily basis.

it's ok folks. see that guy walking down the street smoking drugs, who cares? see a respectable person walking down the street with a holstered 45? call the FBI, CIA and ATF.

Well, while drugs never ever do anything such as make people insane, possibly causing them to go homicidal, or kill someone who they robbed to get money to pay for more drugs, guns just jump out and kill people on their own.

hypocrites.. they know their pot dealer carries a gun (most likely illegally) yet they seem completely unphased by that.

Storm,

I agree with your sentiments. Where I grew up it was common to see people carrying rifles and shotguns walking to the woods to shoot. Often used to see rifles and shotguns in racks in pickup trucks; windows down an doors unlocked. You did not touch what did not belong to you unless you had permission. Alas those days are gone in the city.

JLStorm, that sounds alot like Red Feather Lakes, CO. It's the only place I can OC and no one calls the cops on me. Its happened to me twice here at home. Up in Red Feather the Sheriff only askes "What ya carring?"

while the more hippie oriented, tofu eating city people seem to shun it entirely. which is humorous considering the pseudo-liberal attitudes they carry as they smoke their pot on a daily basis.

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Don't paint with too broad of a brush now LTB

Hey! This gun nut likes tofu...

hypocrites.. they know their pot dealer carries a gun (most likely illegally) yet they seem completely unphased by that.

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I doubt it.

There are different kinds of dealers. Some of them sell high volume, mostly selling to other dealers, lower-level ones who sell small amounts of it to other people. The former group may carry a gun but the latter are mostly just average guys who make a little extra money dealing some weed. Most people who casually smoke pot don't buy from the high-level dealer who would be carrying a gun and be directly involved with big growers or suppliers.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the people who deal or use pot are the same as the people who deal and use coke, crack, meth or whatever. They're not. The war on marijuana is insane...it should be legalized...billions of dollars will be saved and our "justice" system would be un-clogged.

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hypocrites.. they know their pot dealer carries a gun (most likely illegally) yet they seem completely unphased by that.

I doubt it.

There are different kinds of dealers. Some of them sell high volume, mostly selling to other dealers, lower-level ones who sell small amounts of it to other people. The former group may carry a gun but the latter are mostly just average guys who make a little extra money dealing some weed. Most people who casually smoke pot don't buy from the high-level dealer who would be carrying a gun and be directly involved with big growers or suppliers.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the people who deal or use pot are the same as the people who deal and use coke, crack, meth or whatever. They're not. The war on marijuana is insane...it should be legalized...billions of dollars will be saved and our "justice" system would be un-clogged.

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Excellent post. Too many times people overlook that fact. As someone who hasnt always lived on the legal side of the law I have seen whats to be seen. I still havent seen a pot dealer wearing a gun.

hippies like guns !!

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the people who deal or use pot are the same as the people who deal and use coke, crack, meth or whatever. They're not. The war on marijuana is insane...it should be legalized...billions of dollars will be saved and our "justice" system would be un-clogged.

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Don't you realize MJ is the most dangerous drug of all? Just watch Reefer Madness. (Don't get me started about jazz "music")

"Tell your children..."

I find that the real problem we face is the attitudes of a large portion of the population. I was visiting my father, who lives in a small city, for a week or two and wanted to squeeze off a few rounds at a nearby range. I went to walk to my car parked in the driveway with my Garand slung over my shoulder and got scandalized looks from everyone within eye shot. I smiled, gave a little wave, put the rifle in the trunk,and drove off. All the while I was thinking to myself, "This is what's wrong with people these days."

The fact that most states have concealed carry as opposed to open carry just proves the point. I don't know about you, but I would rather know where a gun was than not know. I would feel perfectly fine if everyone and their grandmother walked around every day with a .45 right out there on their hip. But alas, its all part of the ignorance is bliss/stick your head in the sand mentality we have going in droves in this country now.

i can completely relate to your way of thinking. i cant tell you how it makes me feel when i bring my rifles home from the range and all of my neighbors think its cute to poke and make fun of "The gun nut". funny enough, i can only guess who's door they'd come knocking to if they needed help one day. the question is would i give it to them?

i really dont care about the tofu eaters and not trying to poke fun of the hippies; as long as you aren't a hypocrite.

basically, i was just using it to emphasise on demographic, the sheltered lives that alot of city people live. i think that every day we lose touch alittle more with whats really important in life as we move further away from what, in our roots makes us americans.

i guess some people would rather live in a mansion in the city, and drive a ferrari. id rather live out in big sky country and drive a pickup. weird considering i grown up in city life, but i cant stand the mentality or the lifestyle anymore

I have open carried more than a few times and have never had the police called on me. In the places in America where the people have voted to allow the government to take over every aspect of their lives guns carried openly by citizens represent a threat to the system and the understanding of the world by certain people.

I open carry daily.
I remember going to high school with the parking lot full of trucks with gun racks.
I am only in my 30s and have witnessed a huge change in peoples mentalities... it is sad to think what the future may hold.
I will fight it every step of the way tho.


Jim

I love it how potheads look the other way from what's going on in Mexico these days.

That's on YOUR hands, reeferman.

Uh, Duke, if the stuff were sold like whiskey, we wouldn't have the exact same scenario as we did in the 1920s and early 1930s, when whiskey was treated like pot is now. Most people have tried it, a significant minority of the population use it frequently, but we cause guerilla warfare by insisting on pretending that they don't.

Self-deception combined with laws against common acts leads to nothing but sorrow.

Too many Federal employees rely on this lie for a steady paycheck, though.

The whole war on drugs thing is a farce worked with street homeless junkies in a small south coast town in the uk never in 3 years did anyone one ever say "damm I can't find any drugs today"
even on the days when there were major busts or crackdowns
if its a war then the anti drug force are in the bunker with a luger looking at there pet dog

If I did that here, I don't think I'd get the cops called, but I'm not sure.

Yes, it is good to remember the old days. In Fact, I can remember when I was a kid, you could buy a pistol at our local Monkey Wards. I was too young but they were right there in a display case.

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*made the way God intended, not the crazy way hippies are quaffing it nowadays.

I remember my friends and I walking down the street to go shoot jack rabbits in the fields around our neighborhood. This was in Southern California back in the early 80's. Nowadays you would probably get jacked up by the police if someone saw kids doing this. There are no more fields around there, just more houses, apartments, and mini-storage places.

I remember the days when gun racks in the back window of a truck were common around here, you never see that anymore. Heck, my brother use to keep his shotgun in his truck at school to go shoot afterwards, that was the early 80's, try that now.

if its a war then the anti drug force are in the bunker with a luger looking at there pet dog

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This is an absolutely amazing quote. I'm going to file this one away for future use.