Stayed in Honolulu for two weeks with a side excursion to the Big Island back in the seventies. My eyes actually got tired of the beauty.
I later discovered the gun site 2ahawaii dot com and was on there for a long time as 230RN, but eventually got absolutely frustrated with the apparent "acceptance" of firearms restrictions in general, even by the "gunnies"on the board. I'm still logged on and recently got an e-mail birthday greeting from them, but it was apparent to me that most of the population consisted of groups of people from the Pacific Islands and Japan, and seemed to have been born with an ingrained acceptance of authority, no matter how onerous.
Having been born and raised in New York City, my perspective was how similar this was to the New York attitude of "You can't fight City Hall."
I finally quit visiting the site. It was like watching somebody mistreat a puppy.
Yeah, the "gunnies" there are OK and are at least vaguely aware of how "downtrodden" they are, but still, that attitude came through to me.
I even looked at a translation back into English from the Hawaiian rendering of the Constitution and where the second Amendment refers to "the people," the word "militia" appears in parentheses, as in "the right of the people (militia) to keep and bear..."
Now that was then, and it may have been a unique re-translation from the Hawaiian, but nevertheless, there it was.
I am sure sorry that the Chief has to injure his own perspective on concealed carry. Sniff sniff.
Terry, 230RN