My Gravirax job has me driving all over 'fly over territory'. In the past 3 months I have been in WY, MT, NV, CA, ID, UT, and CO. I drive a lot of miles and see all kinda funky and super beautiful things. The Western US is just amazingly beautiful.
I also see a heck of a lot of sidearms. Stopping for gas at Jet, or Conoco, of Love's and if there are more than 4 people in the store it seems at least 1 is rocking the open carry (how many have concealed guns is anyones guess). After enough trips into gas stations to pee and buy caffeine I find myself listening to some Rolling Stones and thinking ' what the hell kind of message are you sending to your kids when you feel you gotta strap a 9 on your hip before leaving the house?' Seriously, your 9 year old kid looks up at you and asks where are you going and you say, ohh gotta get some gas and a 12 pack at the Love's and part of leaving home involves grabbing your gun.
I have watched a lot of dystopian movies, and driving around these areas of the country I have yet to see anything that looks like The Purge or 28 days or Mad Max. I have a pretty good spidey sense and a lot of experience in all kind of small western towns and the only thing that really scares me is the guys with the guns. I have not seen BAD GUYS. I do not bother to lock my car even with 10k of ski racks inside. But the need to arm up before leaving the house is omnipresent.
How do you tell your kid to go out and play when your parent feels they can't go to the grocery store without a weapon?
How do you tell your kid not to worry about well anything when you are signalling you better worry about everything?
Do these folks ever take a breath a realize they live in a great big beautiful country with very very little violence, and most of the violence that does occur is family on family and families with weapons usually have much more deadly outcomes than those without firearms.
My daughter has also let me know that at pretty much every party she goes to (and she does not go to many) there are always boys with guns (not girls but always guys lifting their shirts to show their 9s). WTF---the last time there was gun violence in Aspen was in the 80s and it was a family affair.
So dude with a gun on your hip, what do you tell your kid if he asks you why you need a gun to get gas?
And any parents out there think it's a great idea to mix teenagers, drugs, booze and guns? I hope one of these fuckers manages to shoot his dick off before they shoot each other. But if dad needs a gun to buy gas maybe junior should have a gun to protect himself and his buddies from the 'down valley' kids or even worse their woke Aspen classmates.
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