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Currently, there is a bill in discussion in Florida’s house pertaining to the open carry of firearms.  Unsurprisingly, this bill has caused a great deal of debate.  The NRA and pro-gun committees have been trying to sell the necessity of the bill “to prevent the arrest of CWP holders who may inadvertently, or accidentally, expose their firearms”.  This is all fine and good, but I think this “reason” has missed the point.

Essentially what we have here is a “solution” to a problem by passing more legislation instead of fixing the original law.  I’m certainly not pro gun legislation, those of you who know me know that I am an avid gun owner, competitive shooter, and overall fan of firearms.  But the open carry legislation passed as a “fix” for the concealed carry law is a misdirection.

Also, it seems to me that some scenarios where an open carrying citizen might inadvertently cause an escalation.  Before the hate mail starts, let me play out a scenario for you.

You are in a gas station, looking through the candy bar isle when an shotgun carrying bad guy comes through the front door and demands the clerk turn over the register’s cash.  Normally you’d be carrying concealed, but since this law passed, you figure “what the hell” and suit up with a waistband holster.  Now the robber turns his attention to you, as he never even noticed you back there on his way in, and you have a gun on your hip.  Had you been carrying concealed, you might have decided to do nothing to stop the robbery, assuming the bad guy would take his money and run.  But now we have a good old-fashioned wild-west showdown taking place, as the criminal is convinced you’ll draw the minute you get the chance.

This is how people get shot.

I’m not saying the law will cause people to end up in a Hollywood style shootout, but it’s certainly worth entertaining the thought.  I do believe that an armed society is a polite society, and I think firearms have a lasting place in America, as this was a major factor in our history.  I’m only suggesting that the open carry / cowboy lifestyle might be a bit outdated.

Maybe we should spend less effort pleasing the NRA, by passing more laws and more time fixing the laws that are already broken.  Say, by adding a clause to the concealed law that allows for accidental display of the hidden firearm.

Unemployment is still hovering at over 9% (actually more like 11%, but we don’t count under-employed or people who have just plain given up).  We are currently waging 3 wars… At the same time.  As if this wasn’t enough, we’re still buried in the middle of the worst recession in American history, home prices continue to plummet, and a class war is looming as the rich continue to tax the middle class into poverty.  Oh yeah, and there’s a world class nuclear disaster hanging on by a thread in Japan… Almost forgot that one.

But you fucktards are wrapped around some “noble” rich asshat in the UK getting married to some other rich asshat, and a reality TV show douchebag who is running for president as some kind of bullshit publicity stunt.

So, what’s on the front page of the news this morning?  Obama releases birth form, decries ‘silliness’.

Are you fucking kidding me?

GET a GRIP, America!

The most depressing part is, what can we do?  Congress is completely out of control, the President and his cabinet seem to have their own agenda which doesn’t include protecting or providing for any constituent who doesn’t own a corporation, and our government has decided to war us into permanent poverty.  This is really beginning to sound a LOT like the Bush administration.