Officers'Wife
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Hi CassandrasDaddy,
+1
i don't know. i have a rule no drinking and guns on my property. don't like it? haul frieght
+1
i don't know. i have a rule no drinking and guns on my property. don't like it? haul frieght
I hope I never have a friend like that.If the property owner doesn't want you to open carry thats fine, but I don't think just because you are on someone's property that they can tell you what you can and can't have in your pockets.
They don't own you just because you stepped on their land.
They don't own you just because you stepped on their land.
Most of them aren't coming after you without good reason - randomly attacking you would draw unnecessary attention to their operation.
They most certainly can. I forbid illegal narcotics on my property, because they could cost me my RKBA. If I find out a guest has them, that guest will be instructed to leave, in a civil manner at first, and then in a much more convincing and decisive manner.
does that mean they have no right to tell you not to climb up on the roof? Swim in the quarry? Blast his livestock with 1000 watt woofers?
COMPNOR - I think I'm picking up what you're laying down, I guess I just don't completely agree.
For the record, I can't CCW here in MD. But when my fiancee and I move to a more friendly state, we both plan on carrying as much as we're legally able to. I can say this - I intend on carrying for a few reasons - not the least of them being that you just never know what the heck might happen, and I'd rather have a tool available to me and not use it, than not have one and really need it.
The part I disagree with is this: I've felt unsafe in plenty of areas I've been in. I've wished for the ability to carry a knife or pepper spray or gun in a few of them. That doesn't mean that I expected to be using that knife or spray or gun in those places, any more than I did anywhere else. I simply knew that whatever particular area I was in was more likely to bring me trouble than normal.
I guess I just don't understand why, if the end result is the same, why the former example and latter example hold a different significance in your mind. It's all about being prepared, no?
Some "friend".
perhaps you should rethink going to that place to begin with.
Of course I find it ironic that a guy named "Arrogant Bastard" takes that positionI wouldn't make a big deal out of it -- don't be "that guy" who has to politicise friendships.
Why do you have a fire extinguisher in your house? Why do you have seatbelts and airbags in your car? What are you afraid of?
Look - people need to disabuse themselves of the notion that because someone lives out in the boonies, or works in a "pretty safe area" that that somehow means that they shouldn't or don't need to carry. The facts are that while the chances are that nothing will happen to a person in the course of their daily lives that will require the use of pepper spray, a knife, or a gun, that doesn't mean that they must be afraid of something happening if they carry them.
I don't think just because you are on someone's property that they can tell you what you can and can't have in your pockets.