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11Ber - You are absolutely right. That's also completely irrelevant when one of the "sheeple" complains about your lawfully carried firearm. If the effect of your actions "created terror in the mind of the complaintant", it doesn't matter what your intent was, you will be charged. You then get to defend yourself in court. You might even get the charges dismissed (there is no "win" in this case, you just avoid jail). My CCW instructor was a practicing attorney with experience in NC firearms cases. He was actually qualified/empowered to give legal advice, unlike myself. His advice was to "use discretion in the exercise of your rights" and he is an ardent advocate of the right to carry. I'm just passing along information that I consider to be prudent advice. Maybe if the pendulum swings the other way some day, an "in your face" defense of a "right" won't unnecessarilly alienate potential converts. Here's a hint - If you really want to succeed in SF and operate in a UW environment, you might want to learn to consider 2nd and 3rd order effects. FWIW.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
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