Old Dog
Member
Considering the feelings of others isn't a weakness, but an alertness to the need to get along with people who don't understand us or what we are about. We don't need to make any more enemies. We just need to understand the impact on others of our choices.
Gosh, I quite agree. NO ONE should be allowed to wear a red MAGA ballcap, it will certainly hurt peoples' feeling and make enemies, perhaps even lead to getting physically assaulted. Thank goodness that doesn't happen … oh wait, never mind.Are we accomplishing something good by open carrying, or are we just demonstrating a lack of care or awareness of others?
No one should be allowed to put an NRA decal on their car window. It'll just make enemies and get their vehicles keyed. Don't want to upset the anti-gun folks.
No one should be allowed to actually express an opinion, even if it's telling a bunch of young folks in the IHOP on Sunday morning to stop using all the F-bombs and other filthy words while the senior citizens are eating breakfast with the grandkids. We do not want to upset these fine young people by letting them know we don't approve of their language.
No one should ever ask their neighbor's teenage son to stop driving through the neighborhood at 3:00 a.m. blasting his gangster rap at 400 dB. He's just expressing himself.
Heavy sigh. "The need to get along with people who don't understand us …?"
What is now considered socially acceptable as far as public behavior would have been grounds for arrest, involuntary commitment or complete ostracization by the community fifty years ago. No normal folk cursed loudly in public places (or wore clothing with four-letter words imprinted), wore their pants with the waistbands below the butt cheeks, exhibited blatant sexual behavior in public, flaunted homosexuality in public, played their music at intolerable levels at all hours, rudely and routinely shouted down others who expressed a political opinion with which they didn't agree, loudly and publicly derided people for holding conservative views, living in rural areas, hunting or, by accident of birth, growing up white, or stating that they don't believe in abortion.
And now we have members say we, the gun-owning community, have to consider the feelings of others, not flaunt our beliefs at the risk of making more enemies? Are you friggin' serious? What about our feelings? Not seeing much consideration from the other side.
Maybe I'll open carry to Wal-Mart tomorrow. Yeah.