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There is nothing more telling of the Open Carry groups in Texas than to have the National Rifle Association call them weird. In this one instance, I agree with the NRA and Ill probably never be able to say that again. The NRA has a few other choice words to describe the groups narcissistic behavior while besieging restaurants with guns strapped to their backs. Some of the choice descriptions from the NRA of these groups includes, downright foolishness not neighborly counterproductive a lack of manners and many more.
http://freakoutnation.com/2014/06/01/the-nra-slams-open-carry-groups-in-texas-calls-them-weird/
Faux pas
(14,697 posts)you've been instrumental in creating these groups. Pot meet kettle...
blueridge3210
(1,401 posts)distracting from your primary message this kind of thing will happen. Unless there is some kind of catastrophic social change (think "zombie apocalypse" or something similar) open carry of long guns in a non-rural environment is never going to look "normal". I also fully support the right of any private enterprise to forbid carrying of weapons on their premises.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)While benefiting financially from them.
Same diff.
eppur_se_muova
(36,305 posts)The expression "pot calling the kettle black" originated back when the only metals used in cookware were cast iron and copper. Kettles were hammered out of thin copper to make them lighter -- a thin-walled iron kettle would be very hard to make, and likely to crack. Since copper was more expensive, a fine copper kettle was something of a status symbol, and was kept highly polished for best appearance. So place a (black) cast-iron pot next to a shiny copper kettle, and what does the pot "see"? It sees its own reflection, which is black, and concludes that the kettle is black. It's not, of course -- it's only the pot's point of view which makes it seem so.
So the point of the phrase is "what you're seeing reflects your nature more than the nature of the thing you're looking at". NRA sees OC Texans as "weird" ? Well, they are -- but, to use another cliche, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If only the NRA could match that.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Wait for it....