Wearing a dirk casually

[tripleblessed]

I have bitten my fingers past the first joint to avoid typing (akin to biting tongue). I am, however, going to attempt to be legal and civil
and still direct. It is, to me and many others, tiresome, demeaning, and pejorative to speak of "gun nuts" and "Americans' need to be armed", whether by those within or without the national borders of the USA. If we spoke in equivalent terms about pretty much anything relating to those abroad, we would be shouted down. And censored. It would be so very nice to be able to have adults speaking as adults to adults, and not have to tiptoe about to say we still put food on the table the old fashioned way. But we do. I don't, personally, being vegetarian, but virtually everyone I grew up with did and many still do. That is not fancy, or romanticizing, it's just reality. Also reality is the history of the British Isles, and Europe, and pretty much the entire world predating the founding of this country, and how that shaped the thinking of the rabble that became the Minutemen and the Continental Line and militias. Before there was this country to have a constitution. A fairly short excursion through relevant texts sums it up fairly succinctly. It's not insulting, it's not dangerous, it's not political in the usual usage of that word.

Be not insulted, please if you live outwith these borders, it's widely misunderstood here, too, and it is the lack of understanding and framework that leads to irrelevant and hot-blooded comments based on emotion and mudslinging. In proper perspective, it's two or three paragraphs of very civil language. And not a violation of the statements at the top of the page. A calm discussion can be had with me privately, should anyone have the desire. Be warned, while I am fairly apolitical, and associated with no party, I have been known to natter on about many other subjects. And on. And on.