So the Second Amendment should be changed to only protect the people you see fit?
Would you be okay to give up your Second Amendment rights and guns if a group of people didn't like the way you looked?
Again, a statement of fact, a sentiment that cannot be denied, and an understandable complaint, though it goes over the top in snark and sarcasm in being aimed at the like-minded people who truly value the Second, many who have defended it with more than just words with years of military service, among other things.
Let's turn that around . . . no, I wouldn't be OK with giving up my rights because certain people don't like the way I looked (I seem to remember Martin Luther King and thousands, black and white, forcefully making that point in the 60's).
But there is no denying that in the real world
to many who operate on feelings more than fact, perception is reality, and they use their voice and their vote to fight against the false reality that all gun owners are knuckle-draggers who care more about their inanimate objects than all the innocents murdered or caught in the crossfire by people whose thought process and background never even heard of or considered the Second Amendment, the Constitution, the Bible, or even common sense.
To me, personally, it's comparable to those crude folks who use profanity and vulgar behavior in public places because society has devolved to the point where it values their "right" to do so over the right of the rest of us to be spared such behavior. It's 'free expression' and those who do it don't care if your wife, children or mother are within earshot and will get downright snarky, sarcastic, unpleasant, and even threatening if their "right" to act that way is questioned.
Like it or not, there are people who may be open to being sympathetic to our right to carry but are uncomfortable being exposed to/in the near vicinity of someone who is obviously not a law enforcement officer, openly carrying weapons they know nothing about that makes them uneasy or fearful for the safety of their loved ones or themselves. They hope you're a good guy, but idiots like the young man who is the reason this thread was started give them genuine reason to feel that way. And the real and practical result is those people damage our image, perception, and in many parts of the country . . . our rights.
My perspective ? Just because you have the
right to do something, it's not always the smart thing to
do it. Those that insist on doing so are not part of the solution, they're part of the problem.
No doubt there are some who will take umbrage, disagree, and grit their teeth. Fortunately I don't have any of those souls who survived the screening process for friendship in my orbit . . . .
