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Guns for Everyone!
Jun. 16th, 2017 08:42 amStarting August 1st, here in ND, anyone who has a gun can "conceal carry" it (except on State property, or on private property that specifically prohibits it).
Doesn't that make you feel safe? If you're 21, you can buy a gun. It's not hard. And now, you can buy guns and strap them all over your body and carry them around with you hidden (or open! we have "open carry," too!), like you're in some kind of damn action movie.
We are one of the safest states in the Union. Most violence that occurs is domestic violence (not that I'm encouraging that). I rarely feel unsafe here (to be fair, I'm a white man, of an age where no one hassles me). But I feel a little less safe every time I think about all the guns and all the lax gun laws. I have to wonder now if bars will put up "no guns" signs, or if we'll see a bunch of shoot-outs at the O.K. Corral, or neither.
Sometimes I want to move, but nowhere I want, wants me.
Doesn't that make you feel safe? If you're 21, you can buy a gun. It's not hard. And now, you can buy guns and strap them all over your body and carry them around with you hidden (or open! we have "open carry," too!), like you're in some kind of damn action movie.
We are one of the safest states in the Union. Most violence that occurs is domestic violence (not that I'm encouraging that). I rarely feel unsafe here (to be fair, I'm a white man, of an age where no one hassles me). But I feel a little less safe every time I think about all the guns and all the lax gun laws. I have to wonder now if bars will put up "no guns" signs, or if we'll see a bunch of shoot-outs at the O.K. Corral, or neither.
Sometimes I want to move, but nowhere I want, wants me.
