I attended a gun show once, and went with a friend who had worked in a gun store for years and was much more familiar than me, to prevent me from making a fool of myself.
There was a table advocating for “Constitutional Carry,” that is, arguing that there should be no licensing required for concealed carry. There were two guys manning the table, one maybe in his thirties, and the other a guy in his fifties or sixties with a long grey beard.
I’d have just walked by, but my friend marched right up and said “Hey, just so you know, I hope you guys fail.”
The younger guy kind of tenses up and bristles a little and the older guy says “Oh? Why is that?”
And my friend says “I worked in a gun store for over ten years, and I turned in more concealed carry permit applications than I can remember, and…” and at this point she gestures around to the room behind us, “… I wouldn’t trust 95% of the people in this room with a gun.”
And the older guy kind of smiles and nods and says “Yeah, okay, that’s fair.”
No one sane puts those idiot signs up. Over in /r/liberalgunowners the mantra was, "Keep that cutsie shit on your rifle case, not public.)
America would be a different place if there was an IQ requirement for gun ownership.
I attended a gun show once, and went with a friend who had worked in a gun store for years and was much more familiar than me, to prevent me from making a fool of myself.
There was a table advocating for “Constitutional Carry,” that is, arguing that there should be no licensing required for concealed carry. There were two guys manning the table, one maybe in his thirties, and the other a guy in his fifties or sixties with a long grey beard.
I’d have just walked by, but my friend marched right up and said “Hey, just so you know, I hope you guys fail.”
The younger guy kind of tenses up and bristles a little and the older guy says “Oh? Why is that?”
And my friend says “I worked in a gun store for over ten years, and I turned in more concealed carry permit applications than I can remember, and…” and at this point she gestures around to the room behind us, “… I wouldn’t trust 95% of the people in this room with a gun.”
And the older guy kind of smiles and nods and says “Yeah, okay, that’s fair.”