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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTotally serious...why can't I walk around Target with my dick hanging out?
Open carry? Certainly! Does it offend you? Frighten you? Do you think I'll commit a crime with it?
Seriously? What are the limits? Can't I cite the constitution and my pursuit of happiness? My biggest fear, actually, is that some dude with a gun would shoot me because he was afraid of me carrying an open dick.
Just something to think about.
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)because it's not their "brand"!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Just strap on an AR-15 or an AK, man. Then you can shoot all the dick-haters.
TexasTowelie
(111,313 posts)This is about dicks, not strap-ons!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'm just going to have to avoid a comment on that one.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Example: movies
Bloody violence is okay, male sexuality is okay (if he's good-looking and/or funny), female sexuality is not okay (unless it can be masturbated to), homosexual sex-activities are not okay (never-ever).
http://www.cracked.com/article_21151_6-bizarre-realities-how-movies-get-their-ratings_p2.html
Example: The generic bed-scene after sex: A man and a woman just fucked, but both never bothered to take her bra off. (Dry-humping good, nipples bad.)
Example: A generic action-scene: Good guy shoots faceless evil henchman. Faceless evil henchman collapses onto the floor. A human being just died. Yawn.
And while physical sexuality is strictly regulated, movies are getting more and more violent and nobody cares.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/11/06/peds.2013-1600.full.pdf+html
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)We are treated to footage of terrorists-du-jour pointing guns and shooting them at something virtually every night on TV news. No-one considers that obscene (except me, apparently).
Initech
(99,915 posts)"Well thanks to the internet I'm officially bored with sex. Is there any place that caters to my lust for violence?"
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)It touches on the whole violence vs. sex thing too, but you summed it up nicely.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Kind of a shocker. Didn't expect it to be so "in your face." But worth watching.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)shenmue
(38,503 posts)hehe
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...but hey, your way might work too! Give it a shot and let us know how things worked out, okay?
- K&R
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)just proves you don't need an Assault Rifle.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Nicely done!
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)is what came to mind.
riqster
(13,986 posts)(Snark)
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)narnian60
(3,510 posts)JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)most places, but society forbids by and large, so I resist.
randome
(34,845 posts)That all changed once the Reagan-ites came to power. That's about when hair styles started getting shorter, too. It was like the rebel generation gave up.
And now look where we are.
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Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)The hippies got haircuts, elected Reagan and Clinton, voted for free trade, bought McMansions, trashed the social safety net, wracked up twenty trillion in debt, installed the most invasive domestic surveillance network in human history, and demonstrate every single fucking day that there is nothing...
Literally nothing...
That doesn't send them into fits of pant's wetting terror and outrage.
I now live in Texas but I travel all over the south. If I have seen someone with a rifle it didn't raise enough concern to even register in my memory. But that's just me, and I have more important things to worry about.
Atman
(31,464 posts)The only state in the union without any anti-nudity laws. The public utility company actually owns a reservoir which is open to the public -- and has a nude beach, a clothed beach, and even a giant wind farm. Socialist heaven! I've never seen Bernie Sanders at the nude be, though.
sarisataka
(18,220 posts)restrictions on purchasing or carrying firearms. Anyone not otherwise prohibited may carry open or concealed- no permit needed.
Interesting, isn't it, for a socialist heaven
Atman
(31,464 posts)Near Okemo mountain...they proudly promote Alcohol, Firearms, Smoke Meat.
It's like parody sketch from SNL or something. They literally have a full liquor store ten feet away from the gun department. Anyone in Vermont can buy a gun...but you can't drive across the state lines with it. Pick up a handle of tequila and a longarm, and some smoked elk meat while your at it. There is also a section selling Carhart work clothes, and hiking boots.
The store is awesome. If only they sold porn it would be one-stop shopping.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)Other than that, there's no problem.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)thucythucy
(7,986 posts)You know, like all those open carry guys, so busy defending our Free-dumb?
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)You probably don't want that..I am assuming.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)I think that topic is reserved for a whole nother OP.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)that would be fun.
wandy
(3,539 posts)You know you're a 'good guy' with a dick. You're not going to like point it at the cashier and demand money or nothing. You're not going to take hostages with it. You're not going to kidnap an heiress or threaten her with a .......
You're the 'good guy' with a dick.
The only problem I think you might have is if you run across a 'bad guy' with a dick.
Oh hell, stand you're ground. Just piss on 'em.
lame54
(35,141 posts)it's in the declaration of independence
corkhead
(6,119 posts)holding an apple?
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)There are indecency laws, but I believe you know that.
hunter
(38,264 posts)There are very few decent uses for guns, none of them so fun as casual nudity, "indecent" clothing, or enthusiastically consensual sex.
Fondling a gun, brandishing a gun, openly carrying a gun, shooting animals for "fun" (not for food), etc., all these activities are disgusting.
I'd much rather see naked people walking about in public (and I frequently do) than people walking around with guns.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Do you frequent nude breaches?
hunter
(38,264 posts)Sadly, big money is pushing many interesting people out of the City.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Because you have no valid reasons.
You think my penis, an appendage I was born with, is "indecent," but some guy carrying a longarm in a Target is perfectly okay? You can be reasonably sure I won't do much harm with my penis hanging out of my shorts, but that guy with the gun can take you out in a heartbeat. You'd never even know, you'd never see it coming. At least you'd see my weenie get hard before I could do any harm with it.
I know this all sounds totally absurd, but that is the point. We march on Target to demand our right to carry weapons of mass personal destruction, but we're outraged if people see a penis. Or breasts, or vaginas, or whatever.
So, seriously...why shouldn't I be allowed to walk around Target with no pants, if it's perfectly okay to walk around Target with an AR-15? I breathlessly await your answer.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)If I were Target, I would put signs up saying open carrying of guns in Target is banned. I just think your analogy is ridiculous. Why would you expose yourself in Target and become a registered sex offender?
Atman
(31,464 posts)Why is a particular part of my body a crime, yet will otherwise harm no one (unless I take some criminal action which would probably go noticed in a Target store). But it will put me on a "registry" for the rest of my life just for exposing it, and then mean I can't rent an apartment or get a mortgage forever...but if I carry a rifle into the toy department of Target, I'm all good.
You don't see how this is totally fucked up? Really?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I am opposed to open carry. I just think you should make your point in a different manner. There are pedophiles out there doing shit like what you suggest.
I believe the guys carrying rifles into Target are idiots and Target should change their policy.
Atman
(31,464 posts)You honestly don't see a comparison?
And no, I have never, ever heard of a group of men walking into Target with their dicks hanging out. Ever. You're welcome to point out where I'm wrong on this one.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I understand the point you are attempting to make, I just don't think it a valid comparison.
Atman
(31,464 posts)Penises, which will harm no one unless a lot of effort is used, are evil, terrible, and will destroy children if they merely look at them. They must be made criminal. But if you carry a weapon into a public place, a weapon capable of killing twenty people in five seconds, that's all cool with you. Don't look at my weenie...but suck on this rifle barrel. Don't get me wrong, I'm not seriously advocating we should be walking around with our dicks hanging out. I'm just curious as to how you find a lethal weapon (the gun, btw) is okay in Target, but we can't ever see a penis, which roughly 50% of the population already has. Or a vagina, for that matter. Why do you accept weapons in Target, but you're outraged at genitalia? I'm just looking for some sort of rational explanation.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I have written in two posts that I am opposed to open carry.
Then please don't try to tell me there is no analogy. Why are you uncomfortable with seeing a group of men walking around Target with their dicks hanging out? You don't like open carry, I get that. Why can't I open carry my dick, if these people think it's okay to open carry firearms? Which is more likely to kill you?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)rather than me seeing their dicks hanging out.
I am not particularly afraid of guns in this situation. I probably would approach them and tell them they are not helping any 'guns rights' cause by open carrying in Target.
Atman
(31,464 posts)You might not like to see it, but that is because of how our culture raised you. What is the worst that can happen? You go "Ewe!" Someone pees on you (yes, very gross, but you're still alive). But what if that guy with the AR-15 is actually there to shoot up the store and no one does anything because, you know, he has the right to carry his AR-15? I find your fear of penises far more irrational than your fear of the guns which could kill your entire family in a couple of seconds -- you know, that loving husband and the adorable kids who were all created with the help of a penis.
Think about it.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I also said I am opposed to open carrying of guns in Target.
How long are you going to keep this up? I was tired of this exchange several posts ago.
Good luck with exposing yourself in Target. I'll be checking the news to see how it goes for you.
Atman
(31,464 posts)And yet, here you are.
Lonusca
(202 posts)I don't think that's what I have been reading here lately.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)You could insult the OP about their post, yet have no opinion.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I'm surprised the Google link did not tip you off.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)again, odd
NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Their guns are in direct disproportion to their dicks so you'd have to squint to see anything.
(btw, I am not dissing all who prefer to keep guns on their persons, including DUers who have expressed the same sentiment without trying to scare the shit out of people around them.)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)probably allows open dickery.
How else can a guy choose his balls?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)They say some had to retire early because working there gave them prickly heat.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Although we don't have open carry in California, we do have Wal-Mart and Target. I am writing them to tell them that I refuse to shop for my toiletries and towels in a store that carries guns and ammo. Guns should be sold in gun shops not retail stores that also sell toys and household goods. Even if we can't get our lawmakers to do the right thing, maybe we can get the stores to by appealing to their profit motives, In states like Texas I hope people boycott stores and restaurants who don't have a policy against armed men wandering around their stores.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)There are more treated injuries to male members from vacuum cleaners than anything else in the hospitals.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)You may. There will be consequences, however. Let us know how it goes...
uncle ray
(3,153 posts)Open Carry Penissss
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,898 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,846 posts)...
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)There are already too many dicks hanging out at Target.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)A farmer walks into a bar, an old codger, leading a horse, and yells, "I'll give a hundred dollars to anyone who can make my horse laugh!"
A man sitting near the bar stands up, and says, "I'll do it!"
The man leads the horse back into the men's restroom. About 10 seconds later, a loud, distinctive horse laugh is heard. The man emerges from the restroom with the horse.
The farmer yells, "Well, I'll be! How about double or nothing. If you can make my horse cry, I'll give you two hundred dollars!"
The man smiles and says, "You're on!" He then leads the horse back into the men's restroom.
About 20 seconds later, the man emerges, leading the horse, and tears can clearly be seen streaming down the horses snout.
The farmer exclaims, "Well, I'll be! How in tarnation did you do it?"
The man replies, "First, I told your horse that my dick was bigger than his, and then I showed it to him."
1000words
(7,051 posts)does that mean it's a foot?
kentuck
(110,950 posts)We should substitute the word "dick"?
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)These a flashers and nothing more - except that they can be extremely dangerous. If they get a reaction - they are powerful - except of course if they are there to kill you.
Reter
(2,188 posts)However, I am all for legal nudity any where in public.
sarisataka
(18,220 posts)I'll let you know if I see anything hanging out
sarisataka
(18,220 posts)no guns, no dicks
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)sarisataka
(18,220 posts)so I carried the 24 pack of TP in front of my waist
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Wait- that's not what you were saying was it?
donco
(1,548 posts)try wall-mart.
dawg
(10,610 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)No. So there you go!
onenote
(42,383 posts)Which generally means the poster is anything but.
The law (in a sadly growing number of jurisdictions) allows people to walk around a store carrying a gun. That's a bad law.
The law (in every jurisdiction I know of) does not allow people to walk around a store with their dicks out. That's a good law.
So the reason you can't walk around the store with your dick out but can walk around it carrying a gun is that a good law prevents the former and a bad law prevents the latter. If you think working to change the good law will help change the bad law, I wish you well, even though there's not a chance in hell it will.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)A much worse offense than just plain acting a fool
TheKentuckian
(24,949 posts)You'll have to work out the reaction to following a mom and her kids in the store with your cock in the breeze though.
TheOldColonel
(4 posts)But have at it, it's your ah...ermmm...show.
Ya that's it.