Women using knives? Like, say, that customer's mother making her kid's dinner? That customer's grandmother feeding her family? WTF? Even if one believes women should be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen, how the hell will they get anything done in said kitchen without wielding a knife?
Arizona (as you prob'ly know) allows open carry. People in town almost universally don't take advantage of that. People in the country mostly don't carry handguns on their hips, unless their work requires that they be prepared to kill a hurt animal or protect their critters from predators or varmints.
The exception is tourists in places like Tombstone. They wear their holstered pistols over their polo shirts and Bermuda shorts and think that gives them a connection to the gunfighters of long ago.
Not, perhaps, the worst reason to carry ever. But pretty close.
I always want to stop them and ask, "You do know that nobody's going to ride in and shoot up the town, right?"
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Date: 2010-03-21 07:43 pm (UTC)Arizona (as you prob'ly know) allows open carry. People in town almost universally don't take advantage of that. People in the country mostly don't carry handguns on their hips, unless their work requires that they be prepared to kill a hurt animal or protect their critters from predators or varmints.
The exception is tourists in places like Tombstone. They wear their holstered pistols over their polo shirts and Bermuda shorts and think that gives them a connection to the gunfighters of long ago.
Not, perhaps, the worst reason to carry ever. But pretty close.
I always want to stop them and ask, "You do know that nobody's going to ride in and shoot up the town, right?"