Open carry meltdown

[American1776]

Today was a beautiful day, so I took my 3 year old daughter to the playground near the Indian Valley Library. It's a large playground, and I've open carried there countless times with zero issues. Today I had a S&W 539 in a leather thumb break.

A woman with a ~2 year looked at me. Then I hear her loudly exclaim to her kid, "let's go, we're leaving." Kid starts crying. Then, the rant begins: "I've been coming here for 50 years and this is the first time I don't feel safe. I feel really unsafe, let's go". She stomped off with her kid.

A grandmother looked confused, and asked, 'what was that all about'? I smiled and told her it was probably my firearm. She saw it, and said, 'ooohh'. (this lady didn't make a fuss about it).

We spent about an hour there, and I waited for the police to show up. They never came. I wonder if she called the cops, and if they told her there's nothing wrong with open carry.

I almost felt bad---but then again, I did nothing wrong.

[Krichardson]

Nope,you sure didn't.Why did you wait around for police to arrive,did the woman mention that she was going to call them on you?

[American1776]

Nope,you sure didn't.Why did you wait around for police to arrive,did the woman mention that she was going to call them on you?

Poor wording on my part. I played with my daughter, *expecting* the possibiity of LEO's showing up. she did not mention calling the police, but the way things went down with her ranting, I thought it was a strong possibility.

[Krichardson]

Poor wording on my part. I played with my daughter, *expecting* the possibiity of LEO's showing up. she did not mention calling the police, but the way things went down with her ranting, I thought it was a strong possibility.

Oh okay and thank goodness she didn't as in her anger there is no telling what fabrication she might have told the dispatcher.

[bogey1]

Did you tell her everything is ok, Im a syrian refugee, or, I voted for hillary?
That usually eases the tension with the snowflakes.

[Krichardson]

LOL!....or he could have told her,"I got this for free along with my Obama phone".

[brewguy]

Did you tell her everything is ok, Im a syrian refugee, or, I voted for hillary?
That usually eases the tension with the snowflakes.

She probably has one of those Hate has no place here signs in front of her house.

[CAMARuger9mm]

Did you tell her everything is ok, Im a syrian refugee, or, I voted for hillary?
That usually eases the tension with the snowflakes.

This is amazing! LOL

[Veggie215]

Did you tell her everything is ok, Im a syrian refugee, or, I voted for hillary?
That usually eases the tension with the snowflakes.

ROFLMAO!!!

[alpacaheat]

Today was a beautiful day, so I took my 3 year old daughter to the playground near the Indian Valley Library. It's a large playground, and I've open carried there countless times with zero issues. Today I had a S&W 539 in a leather thumb break.

A woman with a ~2 year looked at me. Then I hear her loudly exclaim to her kid, "let's go, we're leaving." Kid starts crying. Then, the rant begins: "I've been coming here for 50 years and this is the first time I don't feel safe. I feel really unsafe, let's go". She stomped off with her kid.

A grandmother looked confused, and asked, 'what was that all about'? I smiled and told her it was probably my firearm. She saw it, and said, 'ooohh'. (this lady didn't make a fuss about it).

We spent about an hour there, and I waited for the police to show up. They never came. I wonder if she called the cops, and if they told her there's nothing wrong with open carry.

I almost felt bad---but then again, I did nothing wrong.

I only feel bad for the kid, not the insane lady. It's also strange she claimed she's been going to the playground for 50 years. She never grew up? She went without kids?


I love my local playground. There's an Army vet I've seen there many times and we were both OCing there with our kids. He had some fun service stories too. Plenty of other families around and some Moms smiled when I said this is the safest playground around.