QuietDan

A lesson for the ages: In a fight for your life " . . . a .22-caliber pistol makes a better weapon than an electric guitar. . . ."

Colorado Supreme Court ruling: Guns allowed on CU campuses The Colorado Supreme Court today ruled that University of Colorado students and employees with concealed carry permits are able to carry their weapons on campus. Colorado's highest court sided with Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a gun-rights group that sued CU and argued that a 1994 university policy banning concealed weapons from its campuses violates state gun laws. "It's a great victory for gun rights, and civil rights in general," said James Manley, the attorney with Mountain States Legal Foundation who represented the gun-rights group. "CU will now have to fall in line and follow the state law." In his arguments, Manley pointed to the Concealed Carry Act of 2003, a state law that prohibits local governments from adopting an ordinance to limit state concealed-carry rights. (more) http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news/ci_20104581

Sometimes the difference between CC and OC is the flick of a shirt-tail. And sometimes that flick just happens, and sometimes it's on purpose.

Wherever you've got people, you've got crime; more people, more or less, more crime. I'm waiting for my first "hey, you old white m-f." I don't think they'll like my semi-automatic response.

I can only speak for my town, and other towns I've lived in before, but a nonemergency call for "suspicious activity" to include shady characters just hanging around outside a store, will usually generate a police response. You don't have to have a chapter and verse legal reason to call. The police recognize citizen's "gut feelings" because they get them too. They are, or are supposed to be, trained observers. What you see as a shady character just hanging around might also have glazed eyes that you didn't see, or the bulge of a pistol in his hoodie pocket. Or be known to the police as a habitual criminal out on probation. You don't have to check all this out, or have to hang around or even be identified in any way, because that's what the cops do. The police can in fact walk up to folks and say "Hi! How are you doing?" Individual's conduct after that point either raise the bar of suspicious activity, or lower it. "I'm waiting for my girlfriend to get off shift" might be followed with "What's her name? How long has she been working here? What time does she get off?" Bad answers or not knowing can also generate "Do you have any outstanding warrants? Are you under probation? Have you been drinking? Do you mind if I see your ID?" Therefore, your call, based on your "gut" feeling, might actually generate legitimate police activity, based on stuff you don't know and wouldn't have a right to ask for. Or, you might be soaking wet. In which case, the police can check on and discount your concerns pretty quick, and still "show the flag" as the Police Cruiser is once again in the parking lot -- it's gotta be somewhere. Any bad guys other than your suspicious character will once again be warned off.

I can't think of a single good reason for someone on foot to be hanging around the ATM, and I imagine the bank manager would agree with that. I heartily dislike hoodies, especially when up -- it screams "I am a thug and I am up to no good." Have you considered using the nonemergency number to call the cops for them to check it out?

A really big cat? (Or a small ratter dog?) Nice shooting. Where did you hit it? Did it go into attack mode? Do you think its clan will come after you in revenge?

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The best disinfectant is Sunshine. Many thanks to Emily Miller for shining a bright light on the insanity that is Washington D.C.

This is about revenue production, plain and simple. The Nazi gun control aspect is secondary. Start with the runt's bodyguards. Half the thugs probably get their firearms from the thug chicago police. I'm thinking chicago is the most corrupt spot on the planet, including Baghdad, Damascus, and Tehran.

Yep. Substitute Walmart for gas-pumps and we're singing each other's song.

Thank you, and yes! I observed him about 8-10 feet out, he got to about . . . 6 feet.Part of my scan was block by the pump and I had been talking to the Deacon. When this happens, they get my 'no' and they don't get 'can I help you?' Their words change but the song remains the same. I had about a paragraph on don't give beggars money to drink with, but that song remains the same as well. I'll save it for another day.

Sounds like a good call on your part. Get your guard down talking to a "vulnerable" female and then get jumped by the shady jerks casing the Walmart parking lot. This ploy doesn't pass the smell test. If she actually needed a jump, I'm thinking the first folks to ask are the Walmart folks themselves. They'll take care of their legitimate customers.

How much money from FedEx, and to whom? I'd be interested in those numbers. I'd be interested in splashing those facts around.

Very odd response at the gas pump yesterday in Smyrna. Was out and around with my Deacon from church on the way to a churchy event in Nashville. He's in his Roman Collar and I'm in a shirt and tie with my suit-jacket on the back seat. The Deacon's driving and I volunteered to pay for his gas. We stop for gas at Thornton's and I'm pumping. I get approached from behind (I REALLY HATE THAT!) by a skinny-shifty-seedy fellow wanting a few bucks for gas and yadda-yadda . . . I turned toward him, take a step back to increase the distance, with the left hand gesturing out and away "No! NO! -- Don't come up to me at the gas-pumps!" He's fixin' to ramp up the beg, seeing as my companion looks like a soft-touch pastor or something, and as I turned around to him he sees my HCP-legal EMP inside the waistband (as I don't have my suit-jacket on). He stops talking mid-sentence, backing up and, really, fleeing to his vehicle. He must have thought I was the Deacon's body-guard or something. I'm generally a CC HCP guy, my somewhat OC was an accident of a warm car that had my covering suit-jacket on the back seat instead of on and concealing my waist-banded pistol. I don't usually get the "run away! run away!" reaction like that, me being such a sweet and gentle guy and all . . .

Many, most, nearly all malls that prohibit firearms are going down the tubes. For starters, they are giving up 5 to 10 percent of their customer base from HCP holders and their families that refuse to patronize them. Additionally, they are leaving themselves wide-open to the depredations of various thieves, robbers and rapists. They do all of this while clinging to a discredited ideology that says that guns are bad and that crime is banned along with the guns. We know this to be false, provably false. If they are going to be so stupid as to deny honest but armed customers in favor of dishonest . . . and still armed . . . customers, then they deserve to go out of business. Hello Hickory Hollow. Hello Rivergate. Hello Cool Springs?

Castle Doctrine in Texas applies to your home, your vehicle, and any place you have a right to be. It's working out well for Texas, and Texans are as rabid about property rights as anyone. I'm thinking our legislators would do well to steal legislative language from Texas, and they'd be welcome to it.

Loosely wrap chicken wire around the tree? Or that heavier mesh wire?

So, if it treads on a property owners right to have a gun on his property, even if it's in a car, then instead of a parking lot provision in the bill, make it illegal for an employer to search an employees car under any circumstance and call it done. Let the employers have the bill calling for no guns on their property, yet deny them the right to search an employee's car, which is the employee's property. We used to call that a Mexican Standoff till everyone got politically correct.

Stop calling representatives and start calling the involved businesses with suggestions of boycott? If FedEx is exerting undue influence, transfer biz to UPS? Just a thought, not a call to action.

Use the money you saved to purchase alcoholic beverages to blur your eyesight. It'll get much prettier, especially near closing time!

So, who are some of the member organizations of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry so gun-owners can reconsider their business relationships with them? I'm not sure I want to do business with organizations that consider me a hazard and an inconvenience.

Careful now. You can pretty much predict where this is going . . .

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