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| Crockett Keller's Riverside Store, deep in the heart of Texas. |
| 2012-02-07 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Bill Clinton - On the same page. When I was a kid in small town Texas, during quail or squirel season, 4 of us young teenagers walking through town with 410s and 12 gauge rifles meant to the locals we were going hunting out in the woods and pastures just outside the town (with permission "don't shoot the cows"). A group of teens walking through town now like that and you know the rest of the story. Nice chatin with you. Via Con Dios |
| Posted by: Hupusoth the Bunyip4399 2012-02-07 18:42 |
| #5 Concealed weapons? Naw, they were out in plain sight. There were enough weapons in the parking lot at Llano High School to start a revolution. We had about 300 students, most of whom drove to school from out in the sticks, so that would be about 200 pickup trucks each with a rifle rack containing a 30-30, a 12 ga and a .22, and I almost forgot usually a .357 or .45 auto in the glove compartment. Never had a shooting at a dance or at a football game...too many weapons. Of course, now you can be permanently expelled from a school for having a TOY pistol in your back pack or a two inch knife..when most of us carried a 4 inch case knife in our boots. Times change...if the drug cartels want some big trouble, they should continue to screw with Texas...there are some folks in South Texas that make Comanches studder. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2012-02-07 13:54 |
| #4 Bill Clinton - Concealed Weapons? In Texas? Couple years agao an old widow lady asked me to come over to her house (a 200 acre ranch) to help her setup her email. After no less than 3-4 minutes the door bell rings. She checks who it is and then opens the door where I see a cowboy staring at me with a 30-30 rifle in his right hand (the next door neighbor just checking in to make sure the strange car in the drive way was friendly folk visting). These guys had an uncanny tendency to ease up on strangers and be next to them before they knew anyone was around, fully armed at that in that part of ranch country. |
| Posted by: Hupusoth the Bunyip4399 2012-02-07 13:01 |
| #3 NOW THAT MAKES ME PROUD. I am from Llano, which is about 25 miles down the road from Mason and my family home was on the Llano River so I think I know the mind set down there. We have our share of liberals, those that went to texas university in austin, but we also have our proud conservatives that went to Texas A&M University. So "Don't Mess with Texas" takes on a whole new meaning when you have a bizzillion cowboys and goatherders with concealed weapon permits. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2012-02-07 11:16 |
| #2 I love it too, but, I hate the reality that makes it necessary. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-02-07 08:33 |
| #1 Love it! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-02-07 03:33 |