Bob, who’s wife is doing well after Surgery brings today’s Quote of the Day
That is the point so many antis forget — it is the fundamental nature or character of the person that matters – not the tool.
Who I am didn’t change.
It didn’t change when I was in the hospital visiting my Beloved Bride. It didn’t change when I stopped and got gas. It didn’t change when I was walking into the 10 story parking garage at nearly 10 o’clock at night.
I obeyed the law because it was the right thing to do.
Do you think the criminals do the same thing?
Turns out the Hospital where Kimberly is staying at is posted as a Gun Free Zone. Thankfully here in Massachusetts (Where we have better carry laws than Texas, believe-it-or-not) these signs only mean its a personal policy, like shirts or shoes, and people with guns may be asked to leave, and like any person not welcome you must comply or be charged with trespass.
I will say when the Mrs. was in the Hospital for EEG monitoring I was carrying my gun, and was glad to have it. As Bob points out, gun free zones can disarm you for HUGE amounts of time if you’re not comfortable (I’m not) of locking a gun in a car or other checkpoint.
I had the gun in the hospital, I had the gun walking across Boston, I had the gun at work, I had the gun on the train, I had the gun in my neighborhood. A Gun-Free-Zone would have disarmed me for ALL this time.
When my wife goes in for surgery, I will be wearing a gun.
I’ll be wearing a gun, and be GLAD I have it
It’s a double-edged sword, innit? Guns are so rare, and often hard to get, that a lot MA businesses don’t think they have to post signs forbidding guns. So we can carry places that TX and FL folks can’t.
(Sadly, this does not include the local mall, which has a NO WEAPONS sticker posted on the door. But really, why would I need a gun to go shopping? After all, it’s not like terrorist attacks have ever been plotted against MA malls. Like, say, by men from Sudbury.)
There are quite a few places in Mass that have “No Weapons” posted in some way on them. Just according to Mass law you’re in no legal obligation to comply with them unless asked to leave by a proprietor.
I generally avoid places like that because I don’t like my money going to stupid people, but if I happen to see a sign on a place I’m going into, I simply smile smugly and me and my gun(s) go right on in.
Just don’t take one near an MRI machine.
http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/full/178/5/1092
Or anything ferrous for that matter–these machines are known for swallowing office chairs and oxygen bottles.
yeah I read that story. From what I remember the gun was STILL cocked-and-locked when it discharged, and the magnet pulled the firing pin into the primer.
My grip-safety firing pin block likely would also be defeated by the magnet…tho a series 80 trigger-actuated one might keep such a foolish thing from happening.
….or if they guy heard the tech correctly, or used his noggin, and didn’t bring a steel gun near a super-magnet….
Weer’d,
I also forgot to mention the hypocrisy of the hospital. See it isn’t firearms that they don’t like — they employ armed guards there — they just don’t want the plebeian rabble like us carrying.