These guys are definitely not helping. The whole long gun in places like Starbucks thing is a PR nightmare for us.
Life is all about managing threats. You avoid bad parts of town, you don't withdraw cash from an ATM at 2am on a dark street corner, etc.
Most dangerous situations can be avoided by being observant and using common sense. So, If I were to stroll into a store with my kids and saw several 20-somethings
standing around with AR-15's, I am going to do a 180 and get the hell out of there. I don't know if one of them is locked and loaded, careless, and coonfingers his weapon while it's pointed at me or someone else. We all have "gun friends" that scare the crap out of us at the range and elsewhere with careless behaviour. We all know stories of someone who has accidentally shot his weapon while clearing it or cleaning, etc.... I have a hole in my floor from having done it myself, and I consider myself extremely careful. It isn't worth the risk to assume nothing bad is going to happen.
So if that is how I feel as a rabidly pro-gun person, how is some soccer mom going to feel? Probably intimidated enough to organize against us. I agree with the others
that if Bloomberg has any reals brains, he just needs to buy a bunch of rifles and send packs of armed people into stores for the next few years until the public
outcry is loud enough that things start getting banned.
Life is all about managing threats. You avoid bad parts of town, you don't withdraw cash from an ATM at 2am on a dark street corner, etc.
Most dangerous situations can be avoided by being observant and using common sense. So, If I were to stroll into a store with my kids and saw several 20-somethings
standing around with AR-15's, I am going to do a 180 and get the hell out of there. I don't know if one of them is locked and loaded, careless, and coonfingers his weapon while it's pointed at me or someone else. We all have "gun friends" that scare the crap out of us at the range and elsewhere with careless behaviour. We all know stories of someone who has accidentally shot his weapon while clearing it or cleaning, etc.... I have a hole in my floor from having done it myself, and I consider myself extremely careful. It isn't worth the risk to assume nothing bad is going to happen.
So if that is how I feel as a rabidly pro-gun person, how is some soccer mom going to feel? Probably intimidated enough to organize against us. I agree with the others
that if Bloomberg has any reals brains, he just needs to buy a bunch of rifles and send packs of armed people into stores for the next few years until the public
outcry is loud enough that things start getting banned.
