The other morning I was in a restaurant having coffee with a friend and a man walked in carrying a .45 on his hip.
He wasn’t a police officer – just an ordinary guy with a weapon. Did he think he would meet an armed terrorist or a robber, and what would he do if he did meet such a person? Would he begin firing in a crowded restaurant? Did the people around him feel safer or more frightened by the sight of a gun? Have we become so paranoid a society that we need to be armed to buy a cup of coffee at our local restaurant?
If so, it is a frightening state of affairs. Even in the Old West it was “check your guns at the bar.”
Alice McBride
Concord