open carry - Market Basket, Plymouth NH

[LikeLakes]

Originally Posted by DEJ

This thread will not end well.

You never know, sometimes a good conversation can stay civil. I don't think this thread will end SOON, but I do hold out hope that it ends WELL.

[swnoel]

You either support the Second Amendment or you don't...

[LikeLakes]

I do. Just because I wonder why people want to open carry at grocery stores doesn't mean I don't support the right to, within the law, bear arms.

I wonder why people like powdered donuts. But I support their right to have 3 or 4 with their coffee with 8 creams and 12 sugars.

[Garcia]

Originally Posted by swnoel

You either support the Second Amendment or you don't...

The Second Amendment as being discussed here and most other places is due largely to the 2008 case District of Columbia vs. Heller. Prior to that, the interpretation was not about an individuals right to bear arms the way it gets discussed today.

Many support the Second Amendment but do not interpret it to mean individuals have a constitutional right to carry anything, anywhere.

Do I want to see guns in the grocery store, on boaters out enjoying the day, or on people sitting next to me when I am out for ice cream with my kids? No. Do I live in fear of being shot by a crazed lunatic or a good samaritan trying to stop one? No. If I have to make a choice, I would rather see the guns people are carrying than have people with concealed weapons.

[~Haze~]

Originally Posted by swnoel

You either support the Second Amendment or you don't...

That’s not accurate.

There are a number of reasonable people who are completely comfortable with guns in reasonable moderation but some of the arbitrary lines drawn by the organizations, institutions and powers that be might need some readjusting based on logic rather than precedent.

Many of us have guns and do carry without our entire existence, identity, and brain to be consumed by the second amendment.
Granted many gun owners do tend to be “1 issue voters” but not all of us.

Originally Posted by WinnisquamZ

Ones comment on “compensating for something”. I ask you to grow up.

Because no one would ever think that way - seriously or in jest.

Originally Posted by VitaBene

Ha- its the little one! See you this summer, I hope D!!

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