Rattled and shaken after seeing open carry in a grocery store

[Squinch]

349. You carry because you want to feel some power that you don't feel unless you do carry.

If you feel otherwise you are kidding yourself.

I bump you with my cart and I apologize too. Because that's what a decent person would do. It has nothing to do with escalation or de-escalation. If you weren't carrying, escalation or de-escalation would not enter into the equation. YOU are creating the situation where they do enter into the equation.

Yes, what is happening IS massacres of innocent bystanders. People going to movies. Children going to school. Kids in a college classroom. They are the DEFINITION of innocent bystander. Because the people who target them think they have a reason, you think that makes them something other than innocent bystanders? If so, you are insanely wrong.

You are requiring that I am willing to die for YOUR political statement, your NRA defined right, which is that you need to have your power stick next to me while I am trying to pick a ripe avocado in the grocery store, and therefore we all need to worry about your "escalation" problems.

And so now I have heard you tell me your rule about the fact that you need to carry every day, all the time. And it's just that. Some asinine rule you made up in your head. That makes us all less safe for no reason whatsoever.

As I said. A bunch of drama queens creating self-fulfilling prophecies.