What most of you Jersey people don't understand about guns, as told from Middle America

[Deplorable Me]

What most of you Jersey people don't understand about guns, as told from Middle America

This could be New York just as well.

 

[Marine Cpl]

In one ear and out of the other. My cousin's husband lives in Long Island. He cannot get a full carry and thought the rest of the state was like that. I explained to him that it wasn't the case in the rest of the state and the rest of the country for that matter.

His response to me was, why do you need to carry? I explained why and his next response was that I wasn't a cop.

I told him that I couldn't afford to carry a cop. His response was that if I was so afraid, I should have become one.

I politely excused myself from the conversation. There is no changing their minds until something happens to them.

Months later he posted some ridiculous nonsense on Facebook that if Trump signs the reciprocity bill, there will be blood on the streets of NY. I explained to him that guys from Texas carry in Detroit, Miami, Phoenix, ect without blood baths. I even told him that I carried in his house. He didn't believe me and told me that I was lying. It was impossible because he would have seen it.

That's how some people are.

 

[MothMan]

Those people are obviously Russian actors!

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

It's a good story from sensible people trying to rationally explain their positions and support of the 2A,

The problem lies that most people who oppose the 2A don't use logic, but emotion. You can't have an honest coherent discussion with someone on important issues who base their entire arguments in emotion.

 

[Airborneguy]

Just like NY, NJ is overrun by a few key liberal areas with the bulk of the population. I'm in South Jersey a lot (family there and my mother has a house), believe me, down there guns aren't looked at as the boogeyman by many people. Just 30 years ago or so we used to shoot in the woods right near the house (same area we still go to now).


It's a shame that the whole state is like NYC when it comes to carry laws, because other than that, NJ is far more gun-friendly than NY. That's a fact.

 

[Steal2B]

All liberal cities suck but I have not found suburban or shoreside Jersey to be gun friendly at all. We have relatives along Ocean Ave in Bradley Beach and Spring Lake. Also have family in Bergen County. The whole area around there is about as gun friendly as an Ivy League or big California college campus and is ripe with BHO mourning snowflakes.

 

[Defilade]

In one ear and out of the other. My cousin's husband lives in Long Island. He cannot get a full carry and thought the rest of the state was like that. I explained to him that it wasn't the case in the rest of the state and the rest of the country for that matter.

His response to me was, why do you need to carry? I explained why and his next response was that I wasn't a cop.

I told him that I couldn't afford to carry a cop. His response was that if I was so afraid, I should have become one.

I politely excused myself from the conversation. There is no changing their minds until something happens to them.

Months later he posted some ridiculous nonsense on Facebook that if Trump signs the reciprocity bill, there will be blood on the streets of NY. I explained to him that guys from Texas carry in Detroit, Miami, Phoenix, ect without blood baths. I even told him that I carried in his house. He didn't believe me and told me that I was lying. It was impossible because he would have seen it.

That's how some people are.

Could have responded "Why do you have a fire alarm in the house?" Afraid of something? Also I'm sure he is trying to justify some crazy reason why he can't have one.

 

[Marine Cpl]

Could have responded "Why do you have a fire alarm in the house?" Afraid of something? Also I'm sure he is trying to justify some crazy reason why he can't have one.

He is a liberal. He's always posting anti Trump crap on Facebook. I counter him with facts and just like the gun issue, he ignores it because it doesn't fit the narrative.

 

[dwa12479]

In one ear and out of the other. My cousin's husband lives in Long Island. He cannot get a full carry and thought the rest of the state was like that. I explained to him that it wasn't the case in the rest of the state and the rest of the country for that matter.

His response to me was, why do you need to carry? I explained why and his next response was that I wasn't a cop.

I told him that I couldn't afford to carry a cop. His response was that if I was so afraid, I should have become one.

I politely excused myself from the conversation. There is no changing their minds until something happens to them.

Months later he posted some ridiculous nonsense on Facebook that if Trump signs the reciprocity bill, there will be blood on the streets of NY. I explained to him that guys from Texas carry in Detroit, Miami, Phoenix, ect without blood baths. I even told him that I carried in his house. He didn't believe me and told me that I was lying. It was impossible because he would have seen it.

That's how some people are.

Classic case of someone who doesn't trust themselves with a gun, and projects their own insecurities onto the rest of us.

 

[Blimey]

I told him that I couldn't afford to carry a cop. His response was that if I was so afraid, I should have become one.

So instead of simply getting a permit or something he thinks you should go for an entire career change. That seems well thought out. And then, while you're a cop, you put yourself in risk of being shot far more than if you weren't. How does that make sense.

 

[masterswimmer]

....

I told him that I couldn't afford to carry a cop. His response was that if I was so afraid, I should have become one.

To which I'd have replied, I'm not looking to clean up the mess, I want to stop it.