Carrying in Boston

[Kalrog]

Apparently it is easy to carry in Boston. You just have to work on the turnpike collecting tolls.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/region ... ition=0?12

[Venus Pax]

“I didn’t want to have a wild west show out there,� said Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Executive Director Alan LeBovidge, who ordered the practice stopped. “I could find nothing to show that the employees had state police training that would make them qualified to carry guns.�

All of these years, these employees have been carrying without a "wild west show out there." Why would they start one now?

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

Boston's crazy. My sister in law is a student at A&M and went up there for an internship it aerospace engineering, but I forget which company it was with. When she moved in, her roommates knew she was from Texas, and the first things they asked were, "Do you ride horses?" and, "Did you bring a gun up here?"

[dukesean]

And yet another idiot politician basing beliefs not on empirical data but on movies and myths:

“It’s absurd,� said state Sen. Steve Baddour (D-Methuen). “The last time I saw a toll taker carrying a gun was when Sonny got blown away in ‘The Godfather.’ �

What a pile of you know what.

[frankie_the_yankee]

Boston, and much of the Northeast in general, is completely insane. The people have been reduced to a near childlike state. It's really pathetic.

The current inhabitants would have certainly thrown in with what were called the "Tories" in revolutionary times. General Gage would have been on very good terms with them, and they with him. The "shot heard 'round the world" would have never been fired, at least not by them or anyone like them.

Different kind of folks from what we have here in Texas.

My own theory is inspired by some old (early 19th century) newspaper ads I once saw. They offerred land grants of a full section, 640 acres, to people who would come out here and live on and work the land. After so many years, they would own it outright. The object was to get people to settle here and populate Texas. These ads ran in newspapers "back East".

So picture people reading those ads back then. They would know that stuff like food, water, and all the elements of basic survival, including protecting onesself against wild animals, criminals, and sometimes hostile natives, were going to be entirely their responsibility. (And remember, there was no air conditioning back in those days! )

To me, it seemed like those ads acted like a "human filter" of sorts. Hardy self-reliant confident people were willing to throw the dice and take up the challenge. People who were more risk-averse tended to stay behind.

Whether it's genetic, cultural, or some mixture of both, it was evident to me when I moved here in 2001 that people here were different.

And that's in a good way.