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I have no problem with concealed carry laws. I think my problem with anyone with a gun on an airplane is my claustrophobia. No place to hide on a plane. Unless I was also carrying and could protect myself. It's doubtful that I would carry a gun on a plane. I rarely carry anywhere else, except traveling alone.


I can understand the feeling, VX. And, I believe it has to do with familiarity. I learned to drive on country backroads and in small towns and sometimes I could drive for 20 minutes and not see another car on the road. When I moved to Houston, it was a traumatic experience driving with hundreds of cars swirling around me at all times ... and this was almost 40 years ago before traffic got bad. Hemmed-in by concrete and steel, there really is "no place to hide" on these city streets, but I rarely think much of it anymore. It has become familiar.

For those of us who have guns hanging over the fireplace and displayed in gun cabinets, who take them to the shooting range, on hunting trips and carry them with us every day and who sit at the kitchen table, disassembling, cleaning and reassembling them, it is a familiar thing. We see them only as inanimate objects, tools, if you will, that are as good or as bad as the people who use them. For other folks, unfamiliar with guns and knowing about them only what they see on the nightly news, there is a totally different perspective.

The Second Amendment, however, as is the First, is either a right or it is not. Freedom of carry is just as valid as freedom of speech and any restrictions on either should be confined, not to use, but mususe.

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