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Thanks for the answer...a good one.

I think it will also depend on the areas of the country. It probably won't go over well in the mid west, north and south but in the northeast and west coast there are already problems over Second Amendment rights. We've all read in the news about the challenge to keep arms in Washington, DC over the prohibitions by the city. NYC could be the next challenge with the Plaxico Buress case. (Not defending Buress, he was just dumb, dumb enough to shoot himself and ought to have his weapon confiscated and permit revoked.)

A couple years ago, my brother in upstate NY was detained and searched in a supermarket parking lot by a town cop. He owns rifles, shotguns and handguns (most of which are family heirlooms) and has a carry permit but he wasn't packing and didn't have a weapon in his car. The town he lives in (and where I grew up) was once farms and railroads and IBM, hunting and trapping were fall and winter activities, woodchuck hunting for farmers paid well when I was a kid.

Now there's been a huge influx of commuters from the City and there's been a little war going with the local yokels. One from the bedroom community phoned the local constabulary without cause about my brother while he was at the market. Nothing happened since nothing was found and nothing amiss but that's the sort of liberal harassment that's creating animosity in the area.

This isn't the only instance of a growing liberal population who votes in town supervisors and councils changing the rules in rural community. A good friend of my brother (and mine) got his licenses revoked for his hot dog stand, which was very popular and forced to move into another township. I talked to him about it and he said it was BS but no big deal. He moved it about three miles away into another township and pays his taxes there. He is a retired NYC homicide detective.

You're certainly right in saying that it depends on what part of the country you live in. In flyover country where i live (now) carrying is almost the norm. Certainly when I see someone carrying, I size him/her up and decide whether to get out of range or not. I feel sorry for the good folks who live in places as you describe. Unfortunately, it's probably too late to do anything about the situation -until things get really bad. Then, the good guys (2nd A types) will have a definite advantage.

I wonder why so many people are so liberal/crazy.