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billh58

(6,635 posts)
2. I agree with your
Sat May 25, 2013, 10:18 PM
May 2013

assessment that it will take a "mindset change" in order to fully implement sensible gun control. Hawaii is indeed unique, and I've been here since before statehood in 1959, and feel very lucky to have discovered paradise when I did.

I know several hunters here on Maui, but none of them feel "threatened" about the government taking away their guns, or anything else for that matter. They also don't see a need to carry their guns in public, as our police force is very visible and active.

Hopefully someday the Mainland will become more civilized, but until that time I stand by the old local motto: "Lucky live Hawaii..."

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