Today was a day of negatives. I carried my concealed firearm throughout the course of multiple errands, and yet…
I did not shoot the salespeople at Sears for repeatedly coming back and seeing, “If I had any questions,” despite me having told them many times before that I did not (I was only there to document what washers and driers they had in stock so I could look them up online at home).
I did not assault the stylist at the hair salon despite her having taken far too long to “get something to eat” and then actually eat it, despite having walked past me and three other customers to do so.
My firearm did not somehow miraculously jump out of its holster in righteous indignation and discharge itself at the Gander Mountain employees in response to their exorbitantly high prices.
I did not kill … well… the hole where the missing employee at Dick’s Sporting Goods should have been behind the counter in their firearms section.
I did not empty a magazine into the SUV of the moron who tried their damnest to side-swipe my poor little Mazda 3.
How did I manage all of this? Easy. I am a responsible citizen, a law-abiding gun owner, a mature concealed carry permit holder, and a grown, accountable, level-headed adult who is a functioning element of society. And yet hoplophobic, anti-rights morons fear, deride, and disparage people like me?
I think that says a lot more about them than me.
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I’ve often been tempted to ask the second or third pestering salesman who asks “Yes. Can you stand here quietly and fend off your co-workers so I can think?”
I’ve also been tempted to tuck my shirt in behind my holster when dealing with certain idiots…but my wife keeps telling me no….
I mean, I understand full well that they operate off commission, but by the second or third inquiry, you would think they understood that I was not going to be changing my mind this century. And “no” is such a short word, it can hardly be incomprehensible. Oh well.
Of course, here in TN, me doing the little tucking move would be perfectly legal (our carry permits are just that – carry permits… they do not specify concealed or open). Of course, it might also get me legally kicked out of the store (their property, so they could and probably would), but it might just be worth it…
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