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Let's say I'm walking down the street, minding my own business, carrying a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol under my jacket in a secure holster (with a valid CHL), and I bump into President Barack Obama all by his lonesome - no Secret Service, no military, no nothin'. He's got half an hour to kill, and so do I, so we grab some food from a street vendor and share a park bench, feeding the pigeons with some of our breadcrumbs.
We discuss health care, Iraq, renewable energy, and science education. And we do so like rational, mature human beings.
Obama finally notices the butt of my handgun peeking out from under my jacket. "You know," he tells me, "I'm not a big fan of concealed carry. No offense to you, but that's just not part of the value system I grew up with."
"No harm done," I respond. "It's admittedly a complicated issue, but I still hold out hope for a workable nationwide reciprocity system."
He tells me of a couple of incidents where neighborhood children were gunned down and how their deaths spurred his community activism and shaped his policial career. I listen patiently, knowing that no parent should survive to bury a child.
Finally, the half hour is up. Obama's limousine arrives, his agent on duty snaps a picture of the two of us with my camera, we shake hands and wish each other well, and I head down the street while Obama heads back to his official duties.
That's just me, of course. Obviously, it's highly unrealistic to expect this sort of contact with a sitting President in today's world, especially in light of all of the fear-mongering by the insurance companies and their hired lackeys who disrupt townhall meetings with an endless stream of anger and bullshit. It's safe to say that at least 80% of those anti-reform bully boys, had they been in my position, would have responded to Obama's presence by trying to inflict harm on him.
All I ever wanted during the past eight years was to see George W. Bush hauled off in handcuffs to stand trial for his crimes against America. But there is so much anger and hatred in our nation today - and so many people behind the scenes who have a vested interest in keeping it that way. These disruptors don't want civilization or decorum. Many of them aren't even capable of wanting something - instead, they wait for someone to tell them what they're supposed to want.
And that is not the sort of citizenry you can trust with concealed handguns in front of the President.
Just my two cents...
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