A sporting rifle or shotgun was very commonly seen in my neck of the woods in the late 50s and early 60s. I have a cheap single barrel 16ga shotgun that hung in a rear window rack of the family’s pickups for nearly 20 years. It was there for use on the farm and there were slugs, buckshot and bird shot under the seat to be used as needed. Everyone who farmed and most who hunted had the racks with guns in them and if I drove the truck to school the shotgun was left hanging there.
The world changes, some change for the good and some change for the bad. Today we are living in a time when many people feel slighted at an insignificant and unintentional action and far too many feel they are entitled to reply with the threat of violence. And with guns being so common and with so many seemingly authoritative sources encouraging that we ‘stand our ground’ we find a man in Florida shooting a kid whose rude blaring music annoyed him but the kid wouldn’t turn it down. Who won that contest? Was either of them showing much intelligence?
@Rod Knox
Those who are quick to loudly profess their rights and qualifications to carry a firearm worry me…
Those who are stating their right to carry one are doing so because that is the topic of this thread. No one started talking about this out of the blue or by happenstance. Your worried by those who carry legally? Use some logic, be worried about those who carry illegally.
They appear to be hoping for the opportunity to prove how proficient they are. Friendly fire isn’t very friendly to innocent bystanders. …
Not one person who has posted stated or implied that they cannot wait for the opportunity to start blasting away.
I agree friendly fire is not appreciated by bystanders. But those who cannot fathom good innocent people protecting their families always worry to much about hurting the feeling of the perps.
Don’t understand that at all.
We can pick instances on either side. The guy in Florida was a nut, but I’ll bet the guy in St. Louis that got hammered to death would have benefited from a weapon of some kind. If you look at the raw facts though, folks that are trained and qualified, take the use of a hand gun very seriously and are only used in extreme situations. Gang members doing the random hits and drive bys generally are already prohibited from owning but that doesn’t stop them.
@ok4450, to get back to automotive issues, you’re speaking of your tool box in the car, right?
I drove 380 miles today. All but ten miles was in a totally rural setting. I had my “tool box” with me, just in case I broke down and first car to come along was full of refugees from Deliverance.
I haven't had it happen to me, but two friends who got pulled over for speeding produced their driver's licenses and CCPs at the same time. In fact the instructors who taught the CCP class I took said it was a good idea, but not required. It's also a good idea to let an officer know whether or not one is carrying. Both instructors were sworn officers. My friends were told "thank you for getting your CCP" by the officers involved, and got off with warnings.
In Ohio, one MUST inform the officer they have a ccw and are carrying when they get pulled over; even if you’re a passenger in someone’s vehicle and THEY get pulled over. You don’t have to inform them if you’re not carrying, but as Ken Hanson(the guy who wrote most of the carry laws in Ohio) told my class, he treats it as a black/white issue; tell them you’ve got the CCW even if you aren’t carrying. When the cop scans your plate, it pops up telling them you have a ccw license.
As for Texas and open carry, the whole open carry thing was brought on by Texas’ old laws on the books. One could openly carry any rifle or shotgun, but if you wanted to openly carry a handgun, it had to be a black powder gun, you could not openly carry a modern handgun. That is what all the protesting was supposed to be about.
As an aside, has anyone watched the new anti-gun PSA? The one that advocates a kid steal his parent’s gun, take it to school and give it to the teacher to get rid of.
The kid would also be a charged with entering a “now gun” zone with a firearm, not to mention theft of the firearm itself. Lots of stupid in this video by people who have no idea what the laws actually say.
It would be more accurate to change “gun” to “pitbull dog” in this video because guns never get out and roam the neighborhood by themselves looking for someone to injure and it is not against the law to bring your pitbull to school.
The pro and anti gun causes are running off the tracks. One group wants to allow college students to carry hand guns on campus and the opposing group wants students to turn in their parents hand guns. Where is common sense in all this?
@Rod_Knox, just your regular run of the mill jeep, Rat Patrol? you are probably not far off track, but no correlation as far as I know. Fun show from the wayback machine! Not even sure if Rat Patrol was in color!
When I was a kid my dad and I would deliver groceries on Saturdays with a jeep like that. Without that option though but with a roof. It’d go anywhere.
It’s pretty sad that the guy is getting death threats over that pickup. What would be interesting is to run the paper trail and find out by who and how that truck ended up where it’s at. Maybe there’s more going on than a pickup…
Once about 10 years ago I was watching a show on the History Channel (?) about the 1982 war in Lebanon.
Camera footage showed delapidated building after delapidated building with people marching in the streets and yelling.
A 1970ish white Dodge Challenger convertible with a white interior goes zinging by with the top down, several armed guys in the front seat, and 3 more sitting on the convertible top with AKs waving their arms, yelling, and emptying magazines into the air.
On a related note possibly, about 7 or 8 years ago there was a white on white Dodge Challenger up for sale on eBay that was listed as restored. The car location was shown as Beirut…