I encountered some ignorance at the grocery store today!

[Kavinsky]

I have always make it a rule never to wear anything out in the public that would ID myself as a LEO or "Gun Person".
Jimmy

Indeed, dont advertise.

 

[tyusclan]

Even though I live in gun-friendly Florida, in a very rural area where you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't own at least one gun, I still prefer not to draw attention to myself.

 

[trapper704]

I always liked the one with two geese flying together and says fly united.

 

[Mickey D]

Do that at the Home Depot here in Forest Park and you'll be one of three customers left in the store.

Like wearing an NRA hat and the crowd moves like Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea.

 

[michael thornton]

i wear gun related shirts, thats what im into ,if people dont like it thats there problum. i dont do the pc thing, first they take our shirts then our guns? i have a smith & wesson sticker on my truck window, some say this will cause my truck to be broke into? its my truck i refuse to let other people control me and what i wear or do, i understand the ones that dont advertise for what ever reason. and i even have gun related tats!

 

[jlrhiner]

Sticker on my truck says "I didn't go to work today, the voices told me to stay home and clean my gun". 14 years and nobody broke into it yet.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

Sticker on my truck says "I didn't go to work today, the voices told me to stay home and clean my gun". 14 years and nobody broke into it yet.

No break-in's after 14 years of advertising??

Impossible

 

[McBear]

Thought I was alone there for a minute Chuck. I agree, I have yet to put one gun related sticker on my van, but then again, I'm not much of a bumper sticker type of person.

Hopefully, some kid that's old enough to read will see some of us out there one day wearing our gun shirts, hats etc. and when their anti-gun parents try to paint us gun owners in a negative light this kid will remember seeing us "gun nuts" as regular folks going about our business, just like everybody else.

Here in Kentucky we have the very high profile Mountain Top Removal issue. Many folks have a Friend of Coal sticker on their car/truck. I have a Friend of Mountains on my Jeep. THAT gets lots of negative comments but not yet a keying or scraping off.

And by the way Ogilvy, should I ever be rude to you, it would not be intentional -- I did several years in NYC doing systems consulting work for Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency and sometimes I get an inadvertent twitch when I see the name.

 

[jkc]

I was at the grocery store today doing my weekly stockup, wearing my S&W pullover sweatshirt. I was in the vegetable section and there was an elderly woman whose cart was blocking the aisle, I was in no hurry so I was just waiting patiently for her to finish what she was doing and move on. When she looked up and saw me standing there she stated, "I guess I better move, I see by your sweatshirt what you'll do to anyone that gets in your way." To say that it just about floored me would be the understatement of the year. I thought of a number of things that I would like to have responded with but in the end I just held my tongue and moved on. The last thing I wanted to do was get in a debate with someone that clueless. But what a thing to say to someone you don't know. I think that was probably one of the most ignorant statements anyone has ever made to me.

You asked for it --- wearing conspicuous "gun gear" just indentifies you as a shoot-me-first target, and as a suspicious person to LEOs and worse, non-LEO "security " nerds. Wear your gun-logo gear to the range, competitive shooting events, etc,, if you must, but not at the grocery store...

 

[ogilvyspecial]

And by the way Ogilvy, should I ever be rude to you, it would not be intentional -- I did several years in NYC doing systems consulting work for Ogilvy & Mather advertising agency and sometimes I get an inadvertent twitch when I see the name.

I'll keep that in mind McBear, sorry for the twitch now & again.

For the record. The Ogilvy Special is my favorite canoe model, developed by the Chestnut Canoe Co. in the early 1930's.

Chestnut was located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, for many years prior to making a short move down the St. John River to Oromocto N.B., hanging on a few more years there before driving their last canoe tack around 1978....

 

[speedyquad]

i've gotten flak for the co-ed naked t-shirts years ago. most of the time, i shrugged it off. one lady, easily in her 80's, followed me around the local mall for maybe a half hour or so. she was constantly yapping about the shirt. i finally got fed up with it and asked her if she wanted to join me in some co-ed naked shopping. her reply was "well, i never" to which i replied "then shut up about it and mind your own damn business". which is a major problem in society, people just need to mind their own business.

the t-shirt was a firefighter shirt. at the time i was a volunteer firefighter.

 

[Tom K]

I wore my Kimber cap on a flight a couple of years ago. As I was boarding the pilot grinned and gave me a thumbs up.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

You asked for it --- wearing conspicuous "gun gear" just indentifies you as a shoot-me-first target, and as a suspicious person to LEOs and worse, non-LEO "security " nerds. Wear your gun-logo gear to the range, competitive shooting events, etc,, if you must, but not at the grocery store...

I know I'm good with the LEO & security types for one simple reason, I'm legal. Now if I was carrying illegally it would be a different matter entirely. In my state I have to, by law, advise a LEO when stopped by them so not wearing a S&W T Shirt, Bushmaster Firearms or LaRue Tactical hat once in a while isn't going to matter much anyway. They are going to know one way or the other.....

If I'm likely to get shot for the clothes I'm wearing then it's a good thing I carry a gun........

 

[Kelly Green]

I have a Dirty Harry 'T', the one with him pointing that big .44 mag. I wear it around the farm. If I wear it while milking the cows, they give up all the milk.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

I have a Dirty Harry 'T', the one with him pointing that big .44 mag. I wear it around the farm. If I wear it while milking the cows, they give up all the milk.

I guess none of 'em are ever feelin' lucky.......

 

[Kanewpadle]

I have a "Get your cart out of my way or I'll shoot you" shirt but I only wear it in hippie organic markets.

Just make sure you don't wear it to one of those "Singles Only" markets.

 

[CajunBass]

All you're doing is telling people stuff about yourself that ought to be kept private.

Oh? Why should it be kept private?

 

[ogilvyspecial]

Oh? Why should it be kept private?

That, my friend, is the $64,000 question, which chud333 (Chuck) pretty much asked in an earlier post but has yet to receive a logical, rational answer.

Maybe you'll have better luck......

 

[labworm]

Too many haters around, there isn't anything people don't hate.

Only one sticker on my cars back window "Mass Chief of Police Association". No advertisements on me.

Seems to have worked for decades.

 

[Bob R]

My grand kids bought me some of those magnetic stickers that look like bullet holes. They put some on my 4 door Wrangler

When ever I see those on a car, I have a strange compulsion to ask the driver if they would like some real bullet holes instead of the stick on type.

That coupled with a maniacal grin usually results in me talking to air, very quickly.


bob