Just for flemco

[theweaselking]

Because everyone in Texas is totally rational and would never, ever misuse a firearm, it's a great thing that anyone can have a gun at any time and that makes us all safer.

(Short version: Furniture delivery people deliver furniture. Homeowner wants them to remove boots. Delivery guys say they can't do that for insurance reasons, but they're wearing big overshoes to protect carpets and floors. Homeowner pulls gun, demands compliance.)

Comments

[zarq.livejournal.com]

Someone on my flist lives in Beaumont. I can only hope it wasn't her.....

[flemco.livejournal.com]

To be fair, if a Texan tells you to take off your damn boots in their house, you do it.

A man's home is his castle down here, son. If you don't like what s/he's telling you to do, you suck it up and comply or you leave. True, pulling a gun WAS a bit rude, but there are several things you absolutely do NOT fuck with a Texan on:

- Their hat
- Their dog
- Their significant other
- Their hardwood floors

Also, from the article?

While the deliverymen say that the woman never pointed the gun directly at them, they decided that running away was the better part of valour and left.

Pansies.

[jerril]

You know, for those lesser issues of home defense (mud on the wood floor, LDS at my door [1], etc) I prefer either a medieval weapon (we have several in the basement), or a 3' long purple dildo. [2]

[1] I think I've accidentally come up with the first two lines of a country song.

[2] which is a reference to an internet anecdote which I really need to find again. Short version: Gamer, after an all night RPG session, is woken up at Ohgod-oclock by missionaries. Hilarity ensues.
Bonus points if someone can find me a link.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

You know, for those lesser issues of home defense (mud on the wood floor, LDS at my door [1], etc) I prefer either a medieval weapon

You have fun with that.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

> - Their hat
> - Their dog
> - Their significant other
> - Their hardwood floors

It's true. It is, on the other hand, much less of a sin to fuck with a Texan over carpeting, and this can be seen by the calm and responsible manner in which she took her complaints about the company to the delivery men and then brought out a gun.

(Points to the article for distinguishing between a tiff and a kerfuffle.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Pansies? Uh, dude, you live in Texas. You should *know* that people are legally allowed to use deadly force in defence of property, there, which includes "trespassing".

Unless you're suggesting that they should have gotten their own guns out and had a more reasonable discussion?

[flemco.livejournal.com]

She didn't even point it at them!

Jesus jumping chipmunk CHRIST! If someone carrying a gun is such a threat, these guys must live in mortal fear ALL THE TIME!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

PS:

"Take off your boots!"
"Can't do that, ma'am. Insurance reasons. We do have these nice protective overshoes to keep your floors dry and unscuffed."
"You guys suck! I've got a gun!"

Even in Texas, that's a fucked up sequence of events, and it's perfectly reasonable to tell the person you can't do that and why.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

And it's awesome that you automatically insinuate that one isolated incident with a biased article that tells NONE of her side of the story means nobody in Texas should have guns.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Of course. That makes the reaction more fun.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Finally:

You seem to have misconstrued my earlier arguments.

My earlier arguments were not discussions over whether Texans should have guns. Any argument on that point is as fucking moot as arguing about whether the ocean should contain fish. We have them. They ain't gonna get taken away at any point in my lifetime by any government or law, and I'd bet my house, car and guitar on it.

My earlier arguments were that no, right to carry doesn't mean a society devolves into the wild west.

In response, you have posted a single isolated incident involving a situation where, if I read between the lines right, a single woman at home, outnumbered by large deliverymen, brandished a firearm (without firing it) in order to get them out of her house.

Try harder!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I didn't misconstrue them. I simply find the story funny enough to link, and, since it's a gun story in Texas, make a point of needling you in the process.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

You would find that amusing, since all Canadians are insane, baby-killing murderers who can't drive.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Those are dirty American border-jumpers.

SO THERE!

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Now, now. There's no need to insult Texas, so!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

There isn't?

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Come down here an say that, pilgrim.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I lived there for two years, hence my informed opinion.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

Of course it is. You continue to think that.

[calysto.livejournal.com]

yanno, you pick on Ohio a lot, and without cause.

But Texas truly deserves it.

[flemco.livejournal.com]

SILENCE! You will be allowed to speak when you dunces can figure out how to use a goddamn voting booth.

[calysto.livejournal.com]

uhm.

you're obviously confusing us with another state.

Given that you're probably a texan, though, that's to be expected.

Don't worry, I'm typing this very slowly because I know you can't read very fast.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, is this the first time you've been reading this blog?

Here's a hint - the next time this guy lists an article and says, "Guess the state," it's either Florida or Ohio.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Y'know what? If she wants to wave a surrogate penis around to save on housework, then she's empowered enough to move her own damned furniture.

-- Steve believes in gender equality. If she acts like a prick, she's a prick.

(PS: It's likely that company policy against removing the footware is probably in compliance with a health and safety requirement. I mean, they do have occupational safety requirements in Texas too, right?)

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Anton, you're making sense, but sense doesn't always prevail in such instances. If I were one of the delivery guys and had a gun waved at me by the customer, I'd either dump the furniture on her lawn or take the stuff back to the store.