Important Stuff -- Or Not: My Brush with the Law

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

My Brush with the Law

So, today I was running around, trying to find a radio for my car and stopped to have lunch at a Mexican restaurant I frequent -- Don something-or-other. In the middle of my meal a guy in a DC Metro windbreaker walks up to me and flashes a badge. "What agency are you with?" he asks. I had to ask him to repeat it twice because of his heavy "black accent" (fodder for another post). I told him, "I'm not with any agency." He pondered for a second and said, "Oh, yeah, this is Virginia." I then explained to him that in Virginia, people must wear their guns in plain view in a place that serves alcohol. He didn't know that. Being a member of the DC Police, I can understand that. He then walked out. I'm guessing that since he wasn't eating there, someone must have called the police. I could have showed him my concealed carry permit, but since I wasn't carrying concealed, I wasn't required to. And I wanted to ask him why DC cops were answering calls in Virginia, but I believe in keeping my contact with the authorities to a bare minimum. Less chance of being tazed, Bro. Isn't it odd that the very people who prattle on about the U.S. becoming a police state, want only the police to have guns? Inconsistencies like that are a sign of a shallow mind.

4 comments:

Mark said...: So, while you're running around, if you accidentally enter D.C., what do you do with your gun?

Owning a gun is illegal in DC, isn't it? If you enter DC with your gun in your car or on your person, are you illegal, or is there some kind of grace period for either leaving DC or getting rid of your gun? Is there a checkpoint where you surrender your gun at the border, and when you leave, pick it up again?; 6:53 AM
Lone Ranger said...: DC is a totalitarian state. No guns allowed period. They aren't even allowed in homes for self-defense. It's even illegal to transport a gun through the district. That's why criminals have a free hand there.

To get to DC from my stomping grounds, I have to cross the 14th street bridge, so I couldn't enter accidentally. I simply don't go to DC except to work and to Maryland except for medical appointments at Andrews AFB. They get none of my business otherwise. I have to leave my gun at home in those cases.

There is a bill in Congress that will force states to recognize the carry permits from all other states, but I don't give that much of a chance of passing. And, DC's gun ban is going to the Supreme Court. The drama there is going to be interesting.; 7:05 AM
Trader Rick said...: So if DC doesn't have to pay any attention to the second amendment, are they exempt from the rest of the Bill of Rights as well? When I was stationed in DC, we didn't need passports, do you now?; 7:29 AM
Lone Ranger said...: As you can see from Rush's Harry Reid letter, they seem to have repealed the First Amendment too.; 1:58 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.