{"id":1129,"date":"2008-06-10T13:33:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2008-06-10T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T17:33:05","slug":"openly-displaying-your-contempt-for-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/openly-displaying-your-contempt-for-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Openly displaying your contempt for civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently some people just don’t get it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure there are gun-crazed weirdos everywhere, but man they sure seem to flock to the States for some reason.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw an article about a new trend for gun owners to openly carry their handguns<\/a> as they go about their business.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently in most states you can openly carry a gun (in a holster) as long as you have a permit for it.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, these rocket scientists decide that’s a great idea and have started to do just that.\u00c2\u00a0 Carrying guns when they drop their children off to school, into their bank, into stores, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Their argument is summed up:<\/p>\n

“What we’re trying to say is, ‘Hey, we’re normal people who carry guns,’ ” said Travis Deveraux, 36, of West Valley, a Salt Lake City suburb. Deveraux works for a credit card company and sometimes walks around town wearing a cowboy hat and packing a pistol in plain sight. “We want the public to understand it’s not just cops who can carry guns.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s true, criminals also carry guns.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m not entirely certain I would call anybody who carries a gun around in any free society “normal”.<\/p>\n

Forget about exercising any archaic rights that only made sense 200 years ago (bear protection, anyone?), do you really want to make the police’s job any harder?\u00c2\u00a0 These guys aren’t just carrying guns, they wear uniforms that make them targets for criminals.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m pretty sure I don’t want them to be jumpy around me and invite disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 I just love the mentality of these gun<\/a>–tards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to hide in the corner of a school and mall and wait for the shooting to stop,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, I’m sure we all<\/strong> want not one socially maladjusted psycho shooting a gun in a public place, but two (or more).\u00c2\u00a0 The police have the training to respond to this sort of thing, not some beer soaked redneck squinting through last night’s hangover as he tries to focus.\u00c2\u00a0 As for me and mine, I would rather have an unarmed society that would respond to a glimpse of a gun tucked into a waistband, rather than a society so jaded and numb to the sight of weapons that any reaction to danger is too little too late, and with the CERTAINTY of more bloodshed.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s no reason to carry a weapon in a public place, none.\u00c2\u00a0 End of story.<\/p>\n

The sad part is, although all of the evidence points towards just removing guns from the public landscape, these people just won’t change.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you think this grandmother<\/a> thinks any differently about carrying guns around in public now?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a lesson I never want to learn, myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently some people just don’t get it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure there are gun-crazed weirdos everywhere, but man they sure seem to flock to the States for some reason.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw an article about a new trend for gun owners to openly … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}