Missouri Town Discovers People Don’t Like Vacationing Around People Openly Carrying Firearms

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. All I can say is

that if I were in some public place - a restaurant, a coffee shop, a park, whatever - and some bozo (or group of bozos) suddenly showed up armed to the teeth with assault rifles, I'd be out of there so fast that my own shadow wouldn't be able to keep up with me. What the open carry idiots don't seem to understand is that there's no way to distinguish the "good guy with a gun" who is merely asserting his Second Amendment rights by showing us all what a tough 'merkin patriot he is (and displaying his manhood like a baboon in a zoo) from some disturbed character whose girlfriend just dumped him, or who couldn't get a girlfriend in the first place, or whose classmates picked on him, or who is hearing voices in his head, and intends to shoot up the place because he hates the world. So for my own safety I would have to assume that the gun-toting knucklehead is a dangerous loon and not just an upstanding citizen, and I would leave as quickly as possible. Any business owners who think it's OK for people to show up in their establishments looking like Special Forces wannabes with neck beards and paunches and lots and lots of guns will soon find themselves without normal customers.