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rmr1923 wrote:

Doug.38PR wrote: it probably will do no good as you say. Glad you stood up for pinciple. I would have not said anything though. This woman now knows that you regularly carry a handgun and are "passionate" about it. If she ever spots you in a crowd or in a restaurant she could tell a manager or policeman that "that man over there might very well have a gun." It could open you up to hasseling.

i doubt most people would do something like that, but the fact that we even have to consider it alarms me... have you ever studied or read into the history of the Bolshevik revolution and what followed? simply accusing someone of being anti-communist/Leninist/Stalinist could land them in prison or in front of a firing squad. there's a fictional book by Robert Littell called The Revolutionist that gives a pretty good perspective of what the Bolsheviks (and paranoia in general) did to Russia and the USSR. i really hope we don't ever get to the point where someone can simply tell a policeman "hey i think that man may have a gun" and they'd get hassled/searched/arrested as a result.

The very reason why injustices like Communism exists is because everyone is afraid to say anything. I applaud the OP for standing up to injustice. Yes, he's taking a risk, but if nobody took risks to stand up for what's right, then evil will prevail. It's like those stoplight video cameras. They're just another sneaky taxation without representation. A private firm is taxing us and this firm is not publicly elected. In South Dallas, they steal the stoplight cameras. Guess what? They've stopped installing them in Oak Cliff & South Dallas. In Plano and North Dallas, nobody steals the cameras. Guess what? We're being unjustly taxed. I'm going to buy that reflective stuff that prevents the traffic cams from working. I'm gonna run some lights to see if those sprays work or not. If the spray works, I'm going to spray my neighbors/friends/family's cars for free. That's my bit of civil disobedience and protest. What's yours?