Open carried for the first time tonight

Just thought I would share. I live in Alabama, where I go to school and work security at a bar on the weekends. I live a block from campus, and 3 to 4 years ago it was a nice area, which includes a strip of bars adjacent a couple of blocks where all the students and faculty hang.

Ever since we had a shooting downtown last summer, the violence has seemed to get worse.

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I had a friend (regular patron of where I work) get mugged a couple blocks from my apartment that required stitches to the face and lip, and he said the attackers were speaking arabic. We have a big foreign exchange program here and there is an "Islamic Learning Center" just down the road and a block from the mugging and about the same distance from my apartment. I'm not saying we have a big arabic violence problem, its usually black and whites, both about equally. We have a lot of white trash and some crazy black folk around here committing crimes left and right.

What topped it all off was the British soldier who was asymmetrically attacked and beheaded yesterday. I know that seems like a pretty random act of terrorist violence but it was not. This was an asymmetrical attack on a soldier of a country who is actively at war with AQA and the taliban in Afghanistan and abroad. I am a combat wounded veteran, and call me paranoid, but I think we are going to see more of these "targets of opportunity" from these scumfucks, and a wounded veteran at a popular university seems just as crazy as London in broad daylight, but i'm not taking chances.

I had a nice chat with a lady cop who was sitting in her car near my apartment before I left for work around 830 or so, where I politely informed her that I would be open carrying late night after the bars close, obviously for protection. Luckily here in Dixie there is no law against open carry. The only illegal thing is concealing in a car or on person without the proper permit. Pretty rad if you ask me. She was well aware of the law, or lack of laws and thought it was pretty cool that I wanted to exercise my right to self protection.

I just thought I would share my story. If anyone thinks i'm race baiting or anything like that I could at least prove to some registered user that there is an islamic place near and you can use your own googling skills to see incidences of shootings and crime in Tuscaloosa.

If anyone cares, I carry a Beretta M96A1. It is chambered in .40 S&W. What I like about this particular pistol is that it is the same frame as the M9, which I carried on my deployment except the M9 is chambered in 9mm. It feels like old times, I guess. Being fairly proficient with it from past training is another reason I prefer this big heavy clunker. Ha

I guess if anyone has any questions about shit like this, lets discuss!

Last Edited by luke0311 on 05/25/2013 04:34 AM