.firearms and trucking as an owner operator with a concealed weapons permit

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by speeedy, Jun 19, 2013.

  1. trees

    trees Road Train Member

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    Somehow I think your opinion on the matter could change, here let me see if I can persuade you...

    Let's say you and I are neighbors, let's say we both own houses, and the distance between our houses is 8 feet.

    You have great big windows on your house, every wall of your house has these great big windows, and no drapes.....there isn't anywhere in your house that you can go where I can't see everything you do.... and I have these great big listening devices, I can hear everything you say, no matter where you are in your house or regardless of what time of day it is, I can clearly see the T.V. screen in any room, I can hear any conversation, in short, there is nothing about you that I don't know, I can go out and look through you garbage, if I want, just to see what you may have thrown out.... old beer cans and how many, prescription med bottles, fast food wrappers, gossip mags, receipts, old magazines, letters to you mom, whatever....

    You, on the other hand, can't see into any of my windows, as they are all one way mirrored glass, you can't hear any of my conversations, you have no access to my garbage, you can't listen to my calls, I am a complete mystery to you.... the only thing you know about me is that I am always there, quietly monitoring your every move....

    But don't worry, cause you don't have nothin to hide, remember???

    You can choose to live in a world I just described, I will not.

    I don't have anything to hide either.

    I just happen to value my privacy.
     
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  3. trees

    trees Road Train Member

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    Nothing. Makes sense to me.
     
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    landstar8891 Road Train Member

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    You just described what our ''government''....They want all of us ''on the grid'' while they are 100% off the grid...
     
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  5. trees

    trees Road Train Member

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    Pretty much. I was thinking of Orwell's "1984"

    I was going to further illustrate my position by describing a neighborhood where I knew everything about everyone in the neighborhood, while everyone else knew nothing about me, except that every now and then I'd suddenly arrest a suspect and whisk them away, never to be seen or heard from again....
     
  6. trees

    trees Road Train Member

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    I think he's probably a good dude, and wants a safe place for all of us, he just hasn't really thought it all through, or realized what the people who established this place went thru, or fought and died for....

    I think liberty is something valuable, I sure won't just give it away....
     
  7. landstar8891

    landstar8891 Road Train Member

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    There was this write up on ''living in a glass house'' that i read one day.I am searching for it and can not find it.It was a guy who illustrated what the ''nazi's'',ARE GOVERNMENT are doing to our privacy laws in the USA...I have to keep searching for this article..
     
  8. Ridgeline

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    Go here ==> http://www.usacarry.com/concealed_carry_permit_reciprocity_maps.html

    This will tell you what you need to know BUT ...

    I think it should be restricted in a truck, just listen to how people act on the CB and you can see some people can't control themselves.

    Another thought is that different states have different laws that dictate why you can use your firearm so if someone say from Texas is in Michigan and catches someone stealing fuel, he shoots the guy which may be legal in Texas, it ain't in Michigan and he will be going away to jail.
     
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  9. speeedy

    speeedy Light Load Member

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    Landstar had me crackin up ..truth is that privacy in the US hahahaa good luck
     
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  10. morr2fab

    morr2fab Medium Load Member

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    Sucks to be you. See my Moon!!!! (I)
     
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  11. jarhead0311

    jarhead0311 Road Train Member

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    I got a bass guitar I can smack dudes over the head with if they broke into my truck....:biggrin_25523:
     
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