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Originally posted by water_boy1999
My point is, I won't get into the moral debate of carrying a concealed weapon because that is not the route you chose to take in posting this thread.
As Bill O Rights said:
...just because you have a right to do something...doesn't necessarily mean that you should. There is a time, and a place for everything, and I'm not so sure that this is it. When you're exercising your rights, you might do well to also exercise a little common sense.
I don't think an isolated incident like this gives reason for gun-toting Americans to start carrying their arms into Starbucks or other places where it is generally unneccessary. That's all I meant.
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well lets take what you are talking about at a level... let's take it generic.. since it's about "generally unneccessary" for your purposes....
so in that vein.. Is it "generally unneccessary" for a person to bring porn/sex toys/birth control in their backpack/briefcase to work/school even though they are going to a rendevouz with their SO?
Bentley Little - if you read my initial post it's not about the legality of carrying.... it's about Rights, knowing them and excersing them. My analogy is not much to do with the argument but to point out the absurdity of someone saying they don't feel comfortable around a gun because of someone's "knowledge of use". Yet there are plenty of people out there day to day that use things that they should not because they use them equally recklessly. IMO the car analogy is pretty equal since we are desensitized to having to deal with autos on a day to day basis, we don't necessarily deal with arms (depending on where you live.)