Reply #47: Not terribly.... [View All]

[S_B_Jackson]

I know several Texas men that knit - I'm one of them who can knit well enough to darn my own socks - many of them are card-carrying cowboys who work cattle, oilfield roughnecks, and those who work offshore on the rigs in the Gulf. It's a useful skill, if one has the dexterity for it...and no one's ever been inclined that I know of to demand the surrender of the their Texas-issued man-cards.

I'll bet I could find any number of "proper" Canadians: alcoholics who shoot and reload as well. Any number of them to be found in NWT, Alberta, BC, Yukon, NS, etc...

Like most anti-gunners, iverglas, you assign emotions and capabilties to an inanimate tool...left alone, a gun cannot load itself, cannot fire itself, it is simply an inert chunk of refined and shaped metal.

And yet ... he never got the urge to shove a pair of knitting needles down his pants when we went to the mall.
And well he shouldn't...no one wants to walk around with a pocket full of shredded meat...

As for my sister, I doubt that she's planning on shoving it down her pants....I mean she can't stand pantylines, much less the unsightly bulge of a Sig P225 at her waist...I think she's planning on a concealed carry purse...