Take a deep breath and breath in common sense.

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I had stopped by to say hello to an elderly couple.

Door bell rang and the husband took a look through blinds and noticed a small compact sedan, and 4 Asians dressed nice. He verified through the peep-hole and chuckled.
He then removed his hand from his front pocket where he Pocket carries a snub nose revolver.

His wife and I in the kitchen, when the door bell rang, and I left to enter the den...essentially spreading out. Wife CCWs as well.

Two nice kids, one with a Backpack and Parents. Just out inviting folks to visit the Church they belong to.

Backpack had some pamphlets and some were coloring book types, for kids to color and get a Bible Story Lesson.

"Tie looks a bit uncomfortable" said the elderly gentleman of the house.
"Pretty dress, not something you really wanted to wear on a Saturday now was it?" Added his wife.

"No, mom and dad said..."
Parents were dressed nice and replied " guess we turned into our parents after all".

Bottled water for the adults, carton of "oh we like that juice in a carton" for the kids.
It is hot and humid here today...
Kids had manners, Parents had manners and it showed the parents "parent the kids".

No Stereotyping, no profiling, no exclamation of Asians, backpacks, anything.
Nobody got shot, no Police or SWAT Team called, no bombs went off, no...

We three are just Southern White folks, we ourselves never felt stereotyped, profiled, or....

They left, and we three commented how Common Sense just needs to be used more.

All three of us were CCW-ing, we don't know if the Parents were or not.

Concealed is Concealed.

 

[TallPine]

Last Saturday morning (not today, but a week ago) someone pulled up into our driveway and knocked on the patio door. The dogs didn't even bark We had the blinds down because the morning sun was beaming through the glass, so all we could see was feet and jeans.

I stepped out the door on the other side of the house, and walked around the corner on the deck to see who it was. Turned out it was a neighbor from a few miles down the road.

Anyway, there are ways to be safe and cautious without being rude and threatening. I did explain to the visiting neighbor, that there had been a manhunt in a nearby neighborhood a couple days previously, and at that time the fugitive was still "at-large" (they later caught him clear down in TX).

 

[Titan6]

If only common sense was as common as air....

 

[Max Beep]

Yeah, common sense. I live in town. What is it with people you don't know knocking on your door at 9:00 PM at night? I wouldn't do that except in an emergency...

 

[Avenger29]

I stepped out the door on the other side of the house, and walked around the corner on the deck to see who it was. Turned out it was a neighbor from a few miles down the road

I love greeting any visitors by coming from around the side of the house or out of the basement. I also don't mind stepping out on the porch before they get down the driveway (we have a longe driveway). Of course, I always have a longgun hidden just inside of the door, just in case.

What is it with people you don't know knocking on your door at 9:00 PM at night?

Its also people calling at rediculous times. I was always taught that you did not call except between 9:00am and 9:00pm, and that you did not visit before calling ahead first.

 

[thexrayboy]

If common sense were in fact a common commodity possessed by most people life as we know it would be far simpler. We would have far fewer laws
on the books and I for one would have far fewer victims of random accidents caused by the inclination to emulate the morons in the tv show Jackass.

Common sense is in fact a precious and vital commodity. Rare to find and even rarer to be found applied properly.