Holder the Race-Hustler

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happy jack wrote:

edge540 wrote:

Really now, "great value"?
It's not a "great value" to me or anybody that I know.
I know many people who are average law-abiding citizens, including many gun owners and do not know of ONE, not one, that carries a gun.

[b]Then we apparently hold different values.
You and your acquaintances obviously have the right to not carry a gun, if you so choose. If you, and they, feel that there is no value in carrying a gun then, by all means, don’t.

edge540 wrote:

Just curious, do you carry a concealed weapon?

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Quite often.

And you wonder why I think you're a gun nut?

You feel that someone who avails himself of a constitutional right is a "nut"?
That explains a whole lot about you.

happy jack wrote:

edge540 wrote:

Really now, "great value"?
It's not a "great value" to me or anybody that I know.
I know many people who are average law-abiding citizens, including many gun owners and do not know of ONE, not one, that carries a gun.

Then we apparently hold different values.
You and your acquaintances obviously have the right to not carry a gun, if you so choose. If you, and they, feel that there is no value in carrying a gun then, by all means, don’t.

That's right, the majority of normal, average law-abiding citizens like myself hold different values and therefore do not feel the need to carry a gun.

edge540 wrote:

Just curious, do you carry a concealed weapon?

happy jack wrote:

Quite often.

Interesting.
Care to give us an example(s) of when and why you quite often carry a concealed weapon?

edge540 wrote:

Care to give us an example(s) of when …. you quite often carry a concealed weapon?

Most of the time.

edge540 wrote:

Care to give us an example(s) of …. why you quite often carry a concealed weapon?[

Why not?

So do you put on a real neat lookin cowboy hat and boots when you go out most of the time?

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Why Not?

Because I'm not mentally ill, paranoid, an irrational idiot and or delusional.

happy jack wrote:

edge540 wrote:

So do you put on a real neat lookin cowboy hat and boots when you go out most of the time?

No, there are no cowboy hats or boots involved, but if you feel the need to engage in that fantasy about me in order to satisfy your inner Village People urges, then have at it.

I was not thinking about 'Village People urges" however it's quite interesting that YOU brought it up. So if you are not pretending to be the Lone Ranger, who are you pretending to be with your 'concealed carry,’ Dirty Harry?

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All that because someone chooses to exercise a constitutional right?
Interesting.

What's even more interesting and fascinating is why someone feels the need to carry a gun when they go to a ball game, supermarket, Menards, Chili's or Walmart...or anywhere.

Actually, I think there might be something seriously wrong with such a person.

edge540 wrote:

happy jack wrote:

No, there are no cowboy hats or boots involved, but if you feel the need to engage in that fantasy about me in order to satisfy your inner Village People urges, then have at it.

I was not thinking about 'Village People urges" however it's quite interesting that YOU brought it up.

Careful Edge,He might start posting pictures from his vast gay pride parade library.

happy jack wrote:

By its very nature, absentee voting is quite open to shenanigans. But, it’s also an option quite necessary to the voting process. Weighing the possibility of potential fraud against the possibility of a soldier, or even a traveling salesman, not being allowed to vote due to being out of his district, I would have to come down on the side of allowing absentee voting, even though verifying the identity of the actual voter is pretty much impossible. Nothing is perfect, and sometimes you have to suck it up and take the bad with the good.

How predictable. I do the same thing you do - weight the possibility of fraud vs a citizen not being allowed to vote due to new and unnecessary rules and limitations. And I, too, have no problem taking the bad with the good in either case for one glaringly important reason - voter fraud doesn't exist.

But I have to wonder now how silent you would be if the government arbitrarily set up a bunch of new rules for our soldiers voting - ended absentee ballots, required new identification procedures that cost not only time but money, limited by their availability between missions, especially if it disproportionately affected Republican soldiers. All to protect ourselves from demonstrably nonexistent "voter fraud". Somehow I doubt you'd be very silent at all.