Luddly Neddite
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And you don't see open carry on a regular basis? I call bull.
There was a business in Tucson, don't remember the name but they had a fleet of jeeps with brightly colored canopies on them, their drivers all wore matching shirts and they all carried hand guns. They went out of business because tourists didn't want their children exposed to possible gun fights.
This made the local news - free advertising - but the owner was quoted as saying he would not change his policy of all his drivers being armed.
Last I knew, they were kaput.
In the more than 25 years I lived in and near Tucson, I saw open carry two other times. Once when a guy pulled out of the restaurant at Ryan Field with a gun in the hand on the steering wheel. He was chasing someone on the highway and I slowed down in order to be far away from their altercation.
The other time was once when I was moving a rattlesnake off the road so he would get run over. Two guys in a pickemup stopped, one got out with a gun to shoot the snake. I said no, that I was just moving him. They got back in their truck and the one with the gun said I was crazy to be saving the life of a rattle snake.
I've been gone from Tcsn for about 7 years now. With all the he-man posturing going on about guns and so many men admitting they're too scared to come out from under their bed without their gun, my bet is there are more people sneaking around with a gun hidden under their shirt.