Why Yes, Happy Hospitalist….

Hospitalists will kill ya if your not careful!! Give me a solid medic or RN anytime of the week!
Some of you have asked “Why carry a gun”?
http://www.sportsmansblog.com/2008/05/heres-why-i-car.html

And I refuse to ever be a victim or being unable to defend my family.
And when the boogeyman is threatening you. Will he wait while you dial 911? Nope, but I truly do believe there are stupid people whom think he will!!

FYI, it was supposed to be a joke.

Personally, I always feel very manly when I carry…

NOT!

Kathy

WV: kissess!

Happy Hospitalist,

It can’t be a joke. I’ve seen jokes before, they’re <>funny<>.

Don’t give up the day job.

“Out of curiosity do you carry while on the job? And if so, what has been the general reaction of you patients who notice and react?”

Lee, I don’t carry on the job. The Borg strictly prohibits it, and I doubt I’d carry on the job even if they didn’t.

The reasons why are < HREF="http://ambulancedriverfiles.blogspot.com/2007/01/armed-emt.html" REL="nofollow">here<>.

I wonder who would feel manlier: the guy who doesn’t believe in being armed and then cowering in fear and pissing his pants when criminals attack him and his family; or the guy who is legally armed and able to repel his attackers and possibly remove them permanently from society?

The former – if his wife and kids survive the attack, do you think they’ll pat him on the back and thank him for being their “hero” by cowering in fear while she was being raped?

The latter – definitely a hero in my book.

I think the mini-piss wars in the comments on this one are more amusing than the original post content.

Way more, idaho. Ftr, I have never before commented on AD’s blog, but if we get to weigh in on relative masculinity, I’ll vote for AD by several orders of magnitude over HH, any day.

John:
re: “Also, I am in the military so don’t assume I’m a commie, but why did you carry a gun on your hip all day?”

Simple answer, because ambulance driver has a small penis and is over-compensating for it.

USMC.

“Simple answer, because ambulance driver has a small penis and is over-compensating for it.

USMC.”

Dang, let one Marine see your penis, and suddenly he’s stalking your blog anonymously.

That’s it. No more illicit airport men’s room liaisons for me. Too many weirdos.

AD-
lost my mouthful of coke on your last comment…lmao

isn’t always best _not_ to feed the trolls?

All of *this* was about *that*? Jesus.

I’d normally say something profound like “Get a life” (to you now, and to Happy the Hospitalist on almost any occasion), but you both appear to have lives. At least, there is a lot of open preening going on about something.

And besides after John most excellently opined, well — meh! And heh! Yeah! Shouldn’t he get some kind of award for perspicacity?

I have a question: Is it possible to openly carry a weapon without the weapon weighing constantly and heavily on one’s mind? (How do I look? How do I look now? How does my weapon look? How do I look? How fast can I get a bead on — No, wait… How do I look now?)

“Is it possible to openly carry a weapon without the weapon weighing constantly and heavily on one’s mind?”

Flat out impossible.

That’s why you see police officers preening in every available reflective surface, because they’re worried how their gun looks.

I keep my wrench in the toolbox and I don’t walk around town holding a golf club.

I totally could though, its not illegal.

This is a problem with blaming the gun for crime, or for misbehavior, or for creating an environment of intimidation, is that the gun is just a tool. Used by a law abiding person, there is no reason to be intimidated.

The same is true for anything that requires <>more responsibility<> to be used appropriately. In stead, our society panics about risks that are not understood. We implement laws to protect us from our fears, not to protect us from reality. This fear mongering leads us to ignore genuine threats.

I do not own any guns. I do not have any desire to own any guns. Someone carrying a gun openly is indicating being responsible enough to have obtained a permit to carry. This are not the kind of person who misuses guns.

<>“Someone carrying a gun openly is indicating being responsible enough to have obtained a permit to carry.”<>Actually, many states allow open carry without the need to obtain a permit. (Not sure if that’s the case in LA, however.) In Alabama, you need a permit to carry <>concealed<>, which is what I mostly do, because it cuts all the public grief and anxiety, and you don’t have to worry about someone “smacking you in the head” to get your gun (as if).

Of course, you still check your reflection compulsively… <>“am I printing?”<>I have carried responsibly for over 15 years without ever discharging my gun anywhere but at a range or on my own property (where it is legal outside incorporated limits). However, there have been a few incidents where the sudden awareness of the <>presence<> of my gun has quickly diffused any potential for ugliness.

And law enforcement here has been generally <>very supportive<> of our rights and responsibilities as gun owners, even opening the police range to us civilians and holding clinics.

Don’t know which I would identify as my compensatory “penis” though…

Would it be the whalloping fast and potent .357 Magnum, or the slow… thick… <>sack-dropping load<> of my .45ACP?

And what about my long, deep-hitting, <>powerful .308<> with its extending stock and… its <>ribbed barrel guard?<>Oh, Oh! OH… Damn.

I think I need to go… uh… <>clean my guns.<> ;D