ShooterMcGavin
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- Jan 11, 2007
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I am frustrated here. Carrying a gun is a hassle and it is really getting me down lately. I ride a motorcycle with lots of friends often. Most don't know I carry. We regularly stop off to eat, and sometimes that happens to be at a bar (I will not drink a drop when I'm riding my bike). Since I will not lock my gun in my bike (not secure) and I cannot enter a bar with a gun by law, I am forced to tell my friends that I am just going to head home. It sucks. My friends don't know why I got weird all of a sudden and it kinda makes me an outsider. That last happened yesterday. As was the case last time I posted something like this, I will probably get lots of comments from you bunch like "why do I want to go to a bar anyways" and "I don't drink, so I don't want to go into a bar". Well, that's great for YOU, but it's not really helpful advice.
Today... I met an old friend at the mall for lunch, and I was carrying as usual. She knows I have a gun and she likes guns (as she has told me). I had a lose T-shirt over my IWB holster. When saying goodbye to her daughter in a child seat, in the back seat of the car, I had to duck under the front seatbelt and my friend saw my gun. When I got out of the car, she remarked "I see you have your piece - that's gay". When I said that I would be happy to talk about it, she said "that's just gay, I don't want to talk about it". You will probably suggest that I just find new friends. Easy, right? Maybe, but it still pisses me off.
I also date girls (sometimes). Yeah, I KNOW that almost everyone here has been married to the perfect woman who carried a gun on the first date out with them. Anyways. I try to find out where girls stand on self-defense and guns, and then maybe I tell them about my "involvement" with carrying. Some of them have drawn the conclusion that I am weird and not the person to be hanging out with, because I carry a gun. Just hearing that I carry a gun, it seems some of them conclude that I am somehow looking for trouble.
Maybe I'm just venting. Maybe there is no good advice that will help my situations. Carrying a gun is making my life a lot harder than if I did not carry.
Today... I met an old friend at the mall for lunch, and I was carrying as usual. She knows I have a gun and she likes guns (as she has told me). I had a lose T-shirt over my IWB holster. When saying goodbye to her daughter in a child seat, in the back seat of the car, I had to duck under the front seatbelt and my friend saw my gun. When I got out of the car, she remarked "I see you have your piece - that's gay". When I said that I would be happy to talk about it, she said "that's just gay, I don't want to talk about it". You will probably suggest that I just find new friends. Easy, right? Maybe, but it still pisses me off.
I also date girls (sometimes). Yeah, I KNOW that almost everyone here has been married to the perfect woman who carried a gun on the first date out with them. Anyways. I try to find out where girls stand on self-defense and guns, and then maybe I tell them about my "involvement" with carrying. Some of them have drawn the conclusion that I am weird and not the person to be hanging out with, because I carry a gun. Just hearing that I carry a gun, it seems some of them conclude that I am somehow looking for trouble.
Maybe I'm just venting. Maybe there is no good advice that will help my situations. Carrying a gun is making my life a lot harder than if I did not carry.