Recently, Emily Rasinski's photo in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch illustrated what "Open Carry" gun laws looked like. The photo showed a tall, handsome, smiling man leaning against a wall at the entrance of Starbucks in Olivette, a community outside St.L. City limits. Thrust in his belt and visible for all to see was a gun.
Along with the photo was the article, "Openly carrying guns is in vogue," by Shane Anthony. According to the article, the man claimed to be carrying the gun openly to demonstrate his right to do so, and "to deter others with ill intent from committing a crime."
Reading the article and looking at the picture, I was reminded of Gary Cooper in the film "High Noon." Cooper plays a renowned gunslinger who defends a whole town with people who have been bullied to immobility by a band of outlaws. At the time the film was made, Cooper was appealing and seemed heroic.
Today, people are coming to understand that dialing 911 is a better way to protect people against crime, rather than gun toting, self appointed vigilantes. Did I hear Cooper utter "YUP!"?
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Open Carry - yikes, memories of the wild, wild west come to mind. Check your coat, and your pistol sir?
ReplyDeleteDianna DiMartino