Comments on: Gun safety http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/28/gun-safety/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:00:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mikee http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/04/28/gun-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-199431 Mikee Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:03:10 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/?p=15489#comment-199431 Back when I was getting interested in guns I visited a Baltimore, MD, gun store popular with the police. I tried to be careful while handling several handguns which the counter man was gracious enough to let me fondle. He did warn me once politely that I was pointing the muzzle at a group of customers across the store and that customers tended to get nervous about that. I apologized. Then about a minute later I did it again, with another handgun. This time he politely told me that the nervous customers were armed police detectives with <strong>loaded</strong> handguns, and that it was not a good idea to make them nervous. This second time I apologized a lot more. There is some truth to that old Heinlein saying about politeness in an armed society. Back when I was getting interested in guns I visited a Baltimore, MD, gun store popular with the police. I tried to be careful while handling several handguns which the counter man was gracious enough to let me fondle. He did warn me once politely that I was pointing the muzzle at a group of customers across the store and that customers tended to get nervous about that. I apologized.

Then about a minute later I did it again, with another handgun. This time he politely told me that the nervous customers were armed police detectives with loaded handguns, and that it was not a good idea to make them nervous. This second time I apologized a lot more.

There is some truth to that old Heinlein saying about politeness in an armed society.

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