arthurcw
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Pasadena, TX Gun Show: “Another Monday. Another Gun Show Rant”
Or I could title this thread: “Babes, Bullets, and Boneheads.” …but I thought that would be too salacious.
Okaysoooo…
I went to said gun show this past weekend. I witnessed 2 things which really make me wish people had some sense. I don’t ask for much. Just the teeniniest bit of common sense would suffice.
<rant>
Bonehead #1: I’m at the “CLIPS” dealer. Anyone in this area knows the table I mean. The big table, with display cases, that has “CLIPS” for every thing. I’m contemplating some Mags and I hear someone to the left of me say something about a PF-9 Mag. Well… I’m kinda fascinated by the PF-9 at present and my head turned in that direction. Just in time to see BONEHEAD take out his PF-9, grab the new mag from the vendor, drop the mag currently in his gun, and expose the fact, to me at least, that it was loaded.
My brain quickly decided that, at that time, alerting the area to a twitchy freak who was exhibiting some really bad gun handling skills might not be healthy for whoever was being covered by his muzzle if he had one in the pipe and, therefore, was not a great option. I grabbed the wife and left the area fast. I found the guy at the back entrance (behind the cinder block wall) who works at the show. We got a police officer there and reported what I could remember.
I hope the guy got thrown out. Given the look on the face of one of Pasadena’s Finest, I think a quick trip to the city lock up was going to be preferable to the dressing down that he was about to get.
Normally, I don’t get freaked by loaded guns. But loaded guns (let me turn up the volume here)… LOADED GUNS NEED TO BE LEFT UN-DRAWN UNLESS YOU CAN QUICKLY AND SAFELY RETURN THEM TO A SAFE CONDITION OR UNLESS YOU NEED TO DEFEND YOUR LIFE. Yanking your loaded smoke wagon out of your pocket in the middle of a room of people to try a test a new mag does not seem to pass that test.
Bonehead #2: As we were leaving, I looked up and saw an extremely emaciated young woman in what can only be described as a belt that had some ruffles on it that sort of covered her important areas and a top that had puffy short sleeves and came down to points just below her breasts and just above her Zyphoid. She was such a waify thing that had the top been any bigger I MIGHT have been able to make out the logo on the back of it for the business she was being degraded by... I mean shilling for. My wife said she could make out something about “training” and “360” only because she had seen a fully clothed male a while ago wearing a much larger logo since he had a full shirt on. Funny that.
Why, oh why, did BONEHEAD #2 see fit to put the lady in this outfit?
First off, there are some women and children there. That was really not called for. I can think of several uniform options that would have drawn my eye to more than just the fleshy parts and MAYBE I’d have seen the actually logo. Maybe, and here’s a crazy thought… Maybe someone say of the female persuasion (such as my wife) would have been looking for the product or services of this business. Do you think they get a lot of females thinking, “WOW! TRAINING! THEY MUST BE REALLY QUALIFIED! SHE HAS AN INNIE AND IS A SIZE ‘0’! WHERE DO I SIGN UP?”
Or, let’s just not stretch our minds that far and say that maybe my companion was female (such as my wife happens to be) and I was interested in taking advantage of said business (which I have no real desire to… but let’s just ‘fer instance’). What do you think the chances are that I will be drifting anywhere near said operation? I like sleeping in my own bed after all.
Second off, it just looked sad. It looked like someone had taken an attractive, but very hungry, girl and told her, “You prance around in this and let the guys ogle you; and we’ll get you a ham and cheese sandwich after. Ok?” I’m not really saying I would have been OK with the typical “Autorama silicone impregnated show girl”, but my goodness! This seemed to hit a new low. “I’ll take ‘Scantily Clad Emaciated Barely Post Pubescent Girls’ for 200 Alex.” Maybe on the SPIKE TV edition of Jeopardy.
Thirdly; it’s just sad that for some in this area of interest “women and guns” is little more than a fetish. I’m not sure WHY a tiny girl in a in a stripper costume would make me what to do ANYTHING gun related (except take a serious look at volunteering her boss for immediate export to a N.O.W. rally and give participants a case of rubber bullets and pictures of how he dresses his slaves... I mean workers), but I do know it made me pretty upset. It’s hard to defend firearms as a sport or hobby, let alone a Constitutional Right, with juvenile stuff like this at events.
Done now. </rant>
Now there are some really fine people at that show. Several of them have several pieces of rectangular denim paper that formerly resided in my pockets so I can’t, and won’t, condemn the whole show. But we do get some right stupid tonkers* in our area of interest and I just felt the need to point them out and get some frustration off my chest.
*Used with great respect to Terry Pratchett and Dwarves everywhere.
Or I could title this thread: “Babes, Bullets, and Boneheads.” …but I thought that would be too salacious.
Okaysoooo…
I went to said gun show this past weekend. I witnessed 2 things which really make me wish people had some sense. I don’t ask for much. Just the teeniniest bit of common sense would suffice.
<rant>
Bonehead #1: I’m at the “CLIPS” dealer. Anyone in this area knows the table I mean. The big table, with display cases, that has “CLIPS” for every thing. I’m contemplating some Mags and I hear someone to the left of me say something about a PF-9 Mag. Well… I’m kinda fascinated by the PF-9 at present and my head turned in that direction. Just in time to see BONEHEAD take out his PF-9, grab the new mag from the vendor, drop the mag currently in his gun, and expose the fact, to me at least, that it was loaded.
My brain quickly decided that, at that time, alerting the area to a twitchy freak who was exhibiting some really bad gun handling skills might not be healthy for whoever was being covered by his muzzle if he had one in the pipe and, therefore, was not a great option. I grabbed the wife and left the area fast. I found the guy at the back entrance (behind the cinder block wall) who works at the show. We got a police officer there and reported what I could remember.
I hope the guy got thrown out. Given the look on the face of one of Pasadena’s Finest, I think a quick trip to the city lock up was going to be preferable to the dressing down that he was about to get.
Normally, I don’t get freaked by loaded guns. But loaded guns (let me turn up the volume here)… LOADED GUNS NEED TO BE LEFT UN-DRAWN UNLESS YOU CAN QUICKLY AND SAFELY RETURN THEM TO A SAFE CONDITION OR UNLESS YOU NEED TO DEFEND YOUR LIFE. Yanking your loaded smoke wagon out of your pocket in the middle of a room of people to try a test a new mag does not seem to pass that test.
Bonehead #2: As we were leaving, I looked up and saw an extremely emaciated young woman in what can only be described as a belt that had some ruffles on it that sort of covered her important areas and a top that had puffy short sleeves and came down to points just below her breasts and just above her Zyphoid. She was such a waify thing that had the top been any bigger I MIGHT have been able to make out the logo on the back of it for the business she was being degraded by... I mean shilling for. My wife said she could make out something about “training” and “360” only because she had seen a fully clothed male a while ago wearing a much larger logo since he had a full shirt on. Funny that.
Why, oh why, did BONEHEAD #2 see fit to put the lady in this outfit?
First off, there are some women and children there. That was really not called for. I can think of several uniform options that would have drawn my eye to more than just the fleshy parts and MAYBE I’d have seen the actually logo. Maybe, and here’s a crazy thought… Maybe someone say of the female persuasion (such as my wife) would have been looking for the product or services of this business. Do you think they get a lot of females thinking, “WOW! TRAINING! THEY MUST BE REALLY QUALIFIED! SHE HAS AN INNIE AND IS A SIZE ‘0’! WHERE DO I SIGN UP?”
Or, let’s just not stretch our minds that far and say that maybe my companion was female (such as my wife happens to be) and I was interested in taking advantage of said business (which I have no real desire to… but let’s just ‘fer instance’). What do you think the chances are that I will be drifting anywhere near said operation? I like sleeping in my own bed after all.
Second off, it just looked sad. It looked like someone had taken an attractive, but very hungry, girl and told her, “You prance around in this and let the guys ogle you; and we’ll get you a ham and cheese sandwich after. Ok?” I’m not really saying I would have been OK with the typical “Autorama silicone impregnated show girl”, but my goodness! This seemed to hit a new low. “I’ll take ‘Scantily Clad Emaciated Barely Post Pubescent Girls’ for 200 Alex.” Maybe on the SPIKE TV edition of Jeopardy.
Thirdly; it’s just sad that for some in this area of interest “women and guns” is little more than a fetish. I’m not sure WHY a tiny girl in a in a stripper costume would make me what to do ANYTHING gun related (except take a serious look at volunteering her boss for immediate export to a N.O.W. rally and give participants a case of rubber bullets and pictures of how he dresses his slaves... I mean workers), but I do know it made me pretty upset. It’s hard to defend firearms as a sport or hobby, let alone a Constitutional Right, with juvenile stuff like this at events.
Done now. </rant>
Now there are some really fine people at that show. Several of them have several pieces of rectangular denim paper that formerly resided in my pockets so I can’t, and won’t, condemn the whole show. But we do get some right stupid tonkers* in our area of interest and I just felt the need to point them out and get some frustration off my chest.
*Used with great respect to Terry Pratchett and Dwarves everywhere.
