Remember you are in Louisiana a very friendly gun state, I would think that the reaction you saw would be almost common. I live in Tennessee and folks come into my retail work place all the time carrying and nothing is ever said. Now if you were in a liberal state somebody would say something I would bet.
Today at the park
I took my daughter to the ball park today so she could play at the playground with her friends.
A guy walks up with his children, OCing a full size 1911 in a sherpa. As he played with his daughter,
pushing her on the swing and catching her as she'd come down the slide, I sat back and watched everyone else to see their reaction.
What I saw was.....nothing. Not a single reaction. No one grabbed their kids and took off running. No one made any snide comments.
No one gave any ugly looks. Some of the other parents were speaking with the guy like we wasn't carrying at all.
In fact, the only person that said anything about it was my daughter, "Daddy, what kind of gun is that? Is it a Glock?"
I just laughed and said "No baby, it's a 1911." (I have a Glock, so that's all she knows. Oh, and she knows AR-15's and AK's too)
I see OC pretty often in Louisiana, but mostly just walking by someone in a store or on the street.
This just made me think of some of the stories I read on some of these forums around the interwebz about anti-gunnners in different parts of the country.
It reminded me of how much I love living in a gun friendly state.
I've complained about and wanted to move away from Louisiana for other reasons (mostly heat and humidity:85
, but this made me feel good about where I live.
Oh, and as a side note. No BG's ran up and snatched the guys gun. :smile:
A guy walks up with his children, OCing a full size 1911 in a sherpa. As he played with his daughter,
pushing her on the swing and catching her as she'd come down the slide, I sat back and watched everyone else to see their reaction.
What I saw was.....nothing. Not a single reaction. No one grabbed their kids and took off running. No one made any snide comments.
No one gave any ugly looks. Some of the other parents were speaking with the guy like we wasn't carrying at all.
In fact, the only person that said anything about it was my daughter, "Daddy, what kind of gun is that? Is it a Glock?"
I just laughed and said "No baby, it's a 1911." (I have a Glock, so that's all she knows. Oh, and she knows AR-15's and AK's too)
I see OC pretty often in Louisiana, but mostly just walking by someone in a store or on the street.
This just made me think of some of the stories I read on some of these forums around the interwebz about anti-gunnners in different parts of the country.
It reminded me of how much I love living in a gun friendly state.
I've complained about and wanted to move away from Louisiana for other reasons (mostly heat and humidity:85
, but this made me feel good about where I live.Oh, and as a side note. No BG's ran up and snatched the guys gun. :smile:
1 - 20 of 37 Posts
You definitely need to up your SA. You missed all the BG's that were just waiting for the right moment to grab his gun and shoot him with it!I took my daughter to the ball park today so she could play at the playground with her friends.
A guy walks up with his children, OCing a full size 1911 in a sherpa. As he played with his daughter,
pushing her on the swing and catching her as she'd come down the slide, I sat back and watched everyone else to see their reaction.
What I saw was.....nothing. Not a single reaction. No one grabbed their kids and took off running. No one made any snide comments.
No one gave any ugly looks. Some of the other parents were speaking with the guy like we wasn't carrying at all.
In fact, the only person that said anything about it was my daughter, "Daddy, what kind of gun is that? Is it a Glock?"
I just laughed and said "No baby, it's a 1911." (I have a Glock, so that's all she knows. Oh, and she knows AR-15's and AK's too)
I see OC pretty often in Louisiana, but mostly just walking by someone in a store or on the street.
This just made me think of some of the stories I read on some of these forums around the interwebz about anti-gunnners in different parts of the country.
It reminded me of how much I love living in a gun friendly state.
I've complained about and wanted to move away from Louisiana for other reasons (mostly heat and humidity:85
Oh, and as a side note. No BG's ran up and snatched the guys gun. :smile:
1 - 20 of 37 Posts
