Best description of an open carry wherever advocate

[COLGATE4]

*No link provided since this comes from the sewer over at FR, but when I read it it struck me as the best description of those who want to openly carry their firearms everywhere at any time.

"Situational awareness trumps all! I let nobody close to me and my head is on a swivel in bathrooms, parking lots, retail/restaurant lines, basically every where. Somebody wants mine they will get it business end first. Action beats reaction every time."

No paranoia here. Nope. None at all. (And he was specifically talking about being in a WalMart bathroom).

[tabasco]

1. Swivel heads. LOL

Kooks.

[2naSalit]

26. I thought

that was the derogatory term for tourists?!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I feel kind of sorry for anyone who is so frightened all the time

that they think they have to bring a gun to the grocery store. It must be miserable to live in constant fear. So pathetic.

[Gman]

3. Yeah, they're pretty much all like that.

Greatly exaggerated sense of importance. No ones ever tried to mug him and he's convinced that's why. Won't even consider that no one gives a damn about him.

[jonno99]

4. Well...just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you...

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. *shrug* I'm a female who lives downtown in a good-sized city. Welcome to my life.

Okay, not as extreme as this guy (and certainly not in bathrooms), but it's a bit like this. It's just a part of being a woman in our "civilized" age.

[gratuitous]

11. I think there's a difference

There's being aware of one's surroundings and taking mental note of sketchy characters in the vicinity. The description of the Free Republic fellow sounds like he draws his weapon 4-6 times a day, usually to intimidate flickering shadows and suspicious leaves.

[Lizzie Poppet]

17. Agreed. At least I'd like to think so!

Besides, I have nothing against leaves...

[LittleBlue]

19. +1

I was just about to say this is life for millions of women in big cities. In the bad areas, it's life for everyone. 3 dead and 20 wounded is a typical summer weekend around the South Side of Chicago.

[Munificence]

31. Yep

already nearly 130 people shot so far in 2016 in Chicago and we are only 12 days into the year....I'd have my head on a swivel also.

[hunter]

21. I've lived in rougher neighborhoods as a kid called "queerbait."

It was my good fortune to grow up in a household with a dragon named Spot, and many dogs. Anyone the dogs accepted was probably okay.

If you bumped into a naked stranger walking out of the bathroom in the middle of the night, no big deal.

I think Spot ate the bad ones.



I have a guardian angel too, but he's a lazy rat bastard who is always amused to see me suffer whenever I do something outrageous and get burned for it. Nevertheless, I'm not dead yet. I think he figures the scars will help me remember which reduces his workload. With a little over half a century wisdom now, I try not to trouble him. The scars really do help me remember.

If I was in the habit of shooting strangers I found skulking about, even strangers with guns, even people who are threatening me, then I'd be a mass murderer.

It's my experience that once the guns come out everything is FUBAR, especially for the good guys.

Mostly the bad guys with guns are already living in a world that's FUBAR. Some of them are cops and soldiers too.

[VOX]

6. Open-carry dude's like an overwound clock spring...

And someday, that spring's likely to break. His constant hypervigilance will wear down his already fragile psyche.

[Ivan Kaputski]

16. A defective clock spring.

[Shandris]

7. Yes, because no one has ever been killed in a parking lot.

Project much?

[Human101948]

8. Walmart bathroom...isn't that where these guys usually shoot themselves in the dick?

MCMINN COUNTY, TN (WRCB) -
A McMinn County man is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg after accidentally shooting himself.

It happened Monday at the Walmart in Athens.

Athens Police say the man was reaching into his back pocket, where he kept his Taurus PT738 handgun holstered, for a tissue. Instead he grabbed the trigger and it went off shooting him in the back of his right thigh.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/27843369/man-accidentally-shoots-self-at-walmart

Andrew Seals, 24, entered the store restroom around 1 p.m. on Sunday, KPHO reports. As pulled down his trousers, Seals' Ruger .357 caliber revolver fell out of it's holster, hit the ground and inadvertently fired.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/man-accidentally-fires-gun-in-walmart-bathroom_n_1290733.html

Okay, okay...sometimes it's a Chik-fil-A

An Ohio man is recovering, though likely more from embarrassment than his injury, after he accidentally shot himself in the leg while in the bathroom of a Fairfield Township Chick-Fil-A restaurant on Tuesday.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/ohio-man-accidentally-shoots-himself-chick-fil-restroom

[Ivan Kaputski]

14. ^

[NightWatcher]

18. It's called the "Walmart walk" (swear to god). It's where concealed carriers practice

walking around with a gun before going out into the real world.

Just we we needed, another reason not to go to Wally World.

[Binkie The Clown]

9. Walmart bathroom: The final stage of Special Forces training. Few survive it. n/t

[Ivan Kaputski]

13. LMAO

[emulatorloo]

10. Yeah, all the men in the bathroom want his gun.

[Ivan Kaputski]

12. придурок = morons

and that they are.

I like this translation:
идиот
idiot, moron, jerk, wanker, nutcase, ament

[Iggo]

15. "Situational awareness trumps all!"

Sounds real familiar.

[Rex]

20. Why is his head on a swivel in bathrooms? Nobody wants him looking at their junk.

Pervert much?

[Glamrock]

22. Tell ya what brothers and sisters

I can't imagine going through life like this. I'm a a 5' 10" 150 lb white dude. Not exactly a big man. Yet, somehow, I don't go through life afraid of everything including my own shadow. I kinda pity this fucker. How can you enjoy life with your "head on a swivel at all times". Poor paranoid bastard.

[JanMichael]

27. you and i are on the same page. not huge dudes but not paranoid either.

i am 5'8" and 165lbs and in pretty good shape for 48 years old. i have trained with free weights and other resistance devices since 16 years old so i have always been pretty fit. but still not 6 foot tall.

with that said still not a big guy and still not paranoid. i tend to always know my surroundings (which is common sense) but no gun is needed and i like to be relaxed not clenching and jacking my jaw and looking for disaster to strike.

crazy paranoid types scare me more than isis (that 70s tv show chick) could ever imagine.

i pity them too but i also am sick to shit with them.

[Crunchy Frog]

23. You've gotta watch out for those denizens of WalMart bathrooms.

The paranoia may be justified.

[frizzled]

24. The world is a dangerous place, no wonder people carry.

These guys, for example, are masters of survival.

[JanMichael]

28. sloth boy and dbag twin. and they have guns. great. thats just great...nt

[Jim Beard]

30. All the more reason to start requireing PERSONALITY test to new gun owners. Measures if they have th

mental stability to own a firearm

[COLGATE4]

25. And the thread winner is:

7. Yes, because no one has ever been killed in a parking lot.

Don't know how I missed that piercing logic.

[SwankyXomb]

29. That guy is desperately

looking for the bad guy with the gun, never realizing that its him.