True story this.. guns all around us in everyday life..

[Peacetrain]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by MineralMan (a host of the 2016 Postmortem forum).

My husband went to the grocery store.. the grocery store folks.. and there was someone walking though the store with a side arm strapped on.. Not a policeman or undercover police.. Where have we gone as a country that people now think its a good idea to walk around armed and ready to shoot..

I grew up with guns.. my Dad hunted... so guns per se does not bother me.. but this attitude of strutting around ready for some gun battle in makes no sense to me..


Edit to add.. why did I put this in primaries.. because just reading where different candidates stand on gun control..

Its important I think

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If you think you need to bring a gun to the grocery store

you are a very fearful person. I don't think that's a very good way to go through life and I sure don't understand it.

[Peacetrain]

2. Thats how I see it..

and fearful people are dangerous in a crisis..

[cantbeserious]

3. America Regresses To The Wild West - Every Store Is The Ok Corral

eom

[Peacetrain]

4. ^^^^^^^^^^^

[Hoyt]

7. Interestingly, laws in some old west towns outlawed carrying weapons.

In late 1880, as regional violence ratcheted up, Tombstone strengthened its existing ban on concealed weapons to outlaw the carrying of any deadly weapons within the town limits.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1112703/-De-mythologizing-the-Wild-West-gun-laws-were-actually-stricter-then-than-now

[pscot]

5. K&R

[Hoyt]

6. Our country is being inundated by armed angry white men. Sooner or later,

we are going to have to do something about it.





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Oh, to be fair, there are some women too.

[Andy823]

8. I agree

I also grew up around guns, and I still own guns, but it's utterly insane for people to have to wear a side arm, or in some cases carry a rifle, every place the go. I live in a rural area where hunting is done by a lot of locals, and yet I never see people in the stores carrying guns wherever they go. Sure some may have a concealed weapons permit and I just don't see the handgun, but it's not like all the pictures I see from other areas of the country where people think carrying a gun is the only way to do things.

We need to end this insane idea that carrying guns into bars, stores, churches, etc. is acceptable. Military weapons belong in the military, not on the streets being carried around by "nuts" who think they are living in the old west.

[MineralMan]

9. Locking - GDP is for Democratic Primary Threads Only.

Despite your last paragraph, consensus of Forum Hosts is that this belongs either in GD or in one of the firearms groups.

GDP TOS: A forum for general discussion of the Democratic presidential primaries. Disruptive meta-discussion is forbidden.

From EarlG's June 25th announcement post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10134641:

"The Politics 2015 forum has been renamed General Discussion: Primaries and is now for exclusive discussion of the Democratic presidential primaries. Any new threads about the Democratic primaries MUST be posted in this forum. (Note: threads about the Republican presidential primaries are still permitted in General Discussion.) "