>>>>I agree with you. It probably is a regional thing. I believe in Arizona you are allowed to carry a gun. How does this affect the crime statistics? I'm not really sure. I would have to research that. Texas and most of the South are more "gun culture" oriented than the North East. Most everybody I know wouldn't think of carrying a gun, aside from the fact that getting a "carry" permit is next to impossible here. The only people who carry guns here are criminals and cops.
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>>>Exactly. So let's outlaw guns, right?
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>>>Uhh... Hmmm... What's wrong here?
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>>Makes me proud to live in the South. Of course, a lot of the west, is like the south. In Gunnison, Colorado, where I've hunted for decades, it's not unusual to see someone in a small town with a pistol strapped on.
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>Well it is Gunnison, afterall :o) (I love that place by the way. Not far from GJ)

My pahdnah and I were hunting out of a little town called Pitkin back in the last century and one day it was snowing sideways, so we stayed in. To pass the time, we went down to the cafe of the lodge we were staying in, had breakfast, and were in the middle of the Grand Championship of the Known Universe (pool game), when some fool came into the cafe cussing and carrying on. We were both wearing pistols (357 6" S&W), and we approached said fool, and let him know his services were no longer required at the cafe. The owners thanked us profusely, and told us several years later, that dude never returned, even though he lived in the town that had a year round population of about 100. This points out the fact that, "you can get a lot with a kind word, but you can get a lot more, with a kind word, and a gun."<vbg>