Personal Narrative: Concealed Carry

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I am also pro-gun, I own three and have a concealed carry permit. I just don't believe that anyone needs an AR15 in Walmart, lol.... It is also who has guns here in Florida. The testing is far too easy for a concealed carry, and the back ground checks to lax. All I want to happen with gun control is tougher background checks and a waiting period. If you do not have a criminal history, that should not bother you. I think what Bethany has tried to convey in her posts, and I as well, is the strong double standard and hypocrisy that exists in the south. Now, I have never lived in the Mid-West or West coast, perhaps it is there too, but it is strong in the South. During my time in South Carolina and now Florida all seems forgiven as long as you got to church on Sunday. You can be a down right cruddy individual all week, and people seem to feel forgiven on Sunday. In upstate NY, where religion is not that influential in …show more content…

There are a lot of benefits to being here, but when you have lived many places, in the general public, you see differences. For myself, and perhaps Bethany will agree, I have a hard time believing that the God I follow hates gays. I have a hard believing that he supports discrimination, and I have a hard time believing that I have to sit on some pew every Sunday to prove my love to him. The Big G and I talk a lot, typically before tests, lol, but he knows I want him in my life because I live the life of a good man. I have seen kids I went to school with in SC at parties on Saturday night, bashing blacks, treating girls really bad, cheating on school work, etc… only to go to church on Sunday. It makes me wonder if they even listen to the sermon. A really popular girl got pregnant while I lived there. She was a sophomore, so just about to turn 16. People were shocked because she had gone on a mission trip that summer and never missed

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