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Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by melock, Oct 2, 2017.

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  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    The last day of the kids' school in the small town I lived/worked in before coming here, I bumped into one of the moms in the hallway after some awards show. She remembered she had a picture of the kids she wanted to give me, so she started digging through her purse ... and as she did I caught a glimpse of her pistol crammed in there. I was ... astonished is understating it.
     
    doctorquant, Oct 6, 2017
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  2. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    The only time I am surprised someone is carrying is when they open carry.
     
    franticscribe, Oct 6, 2017
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  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Too long of a story to tell the right way on here. ... But in 1991, my friend Bill and I were doing a cross country drive and we pulled into Souix Falls, South Dakota, where we decided to stay the night. We were talking to this girl and we asked her for a good place to go out, and she gave us directions to a bar. ... I have no idea if she was fucking with us or if we accidentally went to the wrong place. ... But it was like that scene from Animal House when they walked into the black club and the place went silent. Bill is half Egyptian, half Greek. I am Eastern European jewish. We were in T shirts, shorts, sneakers. It had been a pretty hot summer day. Yet, the place was filled with large men in flannel shirts and jeans. ... and many of them were wearing guns in holsters, like we were in Dodge City in the 1870s.

    We should have just turned around and walked out, but stupidly we sat down at the bar and ordered two of the cheapest beers I have ever bought. About two sips into those beers, two cops walked over to us and told us we were going to finish our beers, get up and leave. ... because there was trouble every night and if we stayed we were going to be that night's excuse for it. We didn't argue with them.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 6, 2017
    #1131
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  4. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    No Gun Nonsense!

    I see the thread has been about gun control also, so here is a different take. (once you get past the character)

    "Then what about gun rights? Ain’t we allowed to own guns to hunt and protect ourselves with? You’re dang right we are, because guns are covered under normal private property laws just like everything else we own. The government has no more right to take away our guns than our television sets or our blenders."
     
    lakefront, Oct 6, 2017
    #1132
  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Frankly, I'm ashamed at some of the paranoia we exhibited in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

    Little children thought they were hiding under their chairs at school as a demonstration of what to do "when the Russians attack." Little did they know they were doing it as a demonstration of what do to when the Russians RETALIATE after people like Curtis LeMay and Thomas Power initiate WWIII.
     
    BTExpress, Oct 6, 2017
    #1133
  6. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Inky_Wretch, Oct 6, 2017
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  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Enjoying the side stories here of posters' personal gun histories. I have none. Never held anything more powerful than a water gun; my mother was/is very anti-gun and growing up we never even had toy pistols. Shooting BB guns, like so many of my grade-school friends did as a rite of passage, was out of the question. One of my dad's brothers hunted but dad never showed any interest and to the best of my knowledge never shot a gun.

    It's jarring for me to even see one, outside of on a policeman. The last time was a few weeks ago when a retired sheriff neighbor was walking his dog with a pistol clearly visible on his hip.
     
    playthrough, Oct 6, 2017
    #1135
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Few years back after a golf outing my best college friends and I were at a bar trying to take a group photo when a pretty young woman in her early 20s offered to take it for us. My best friend and I ended up making innocent chit chat with her for a few minutes afterward over a beer. It took her about 30 seconds to work into the conversation that she was locked and loaded inside her purse.
     
    Dick Whitman, Oct 6, 2017
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  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    My dad told me they were illegal when I was growing up. He probably thought they were.
     
    Dick Whitman, Oct 6, 2017
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  10. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Asking without being flip: in a small town, why carry the gun?

    I understand if you're way out in the country and you need some form of home defense because police response time is so long.

    Otherwise, what are folks so afraid of?
     
    Azrael, Oct 6, 2017
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  11. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I have no idea why this gal was carrying. This was a ridiculously safe area -- so safe that Sheldon Cooper mentioned in as such in a Big Bang Theory episode. A stolen propane grill would merit coverage in the weekly newspaper (although I think there was an emerging meth economy).
     
    doctorquant, Oct 6, 2017
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  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Why do suburban moms buy non-GMO strawberries organically grown by elves?

    People are afraid of irrational shit.
     
    Dick Whitman, Oct 6, 2017
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