Hoplophobia, it’s alive and well…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

And living in the DC area…


I had a rather interesting little confrontation on an elevator yesterday. It was raining all day and I knew I had to visit a number of buildings, so I had on boots, an old fashioned (hell, an OLD) waterproof western duster, and a Drizabone hat.  As I stepped onto the elevator in one particular building, two metrocons or metrosexuals or whatever the term is, commented on how ‘retro’ I looked, and the one that I ‘think’ was the boy (it had the deeper voice and only one earring), chirped (can’t think of a better word for the way it sounded), “Oh, do you have the cowboy hat to go with that outfit?”


My answer was,  “yes, and the six gun too!” with a grin…


Both of them literally got pale and moved as FAR away from me as they could (it was an elevator), and stood there trembling!!!


They got off at the first floor where the doors opened, staying as far from me as they could.  And looked back at me like I was going to shoot them in the back when they left.


An older lady standing next to me just started laughing, muttered about damn kids, and said that wasn’t the floor they punched in.


She then asked, in a Texas twang, if my six shooter was a Peacemaker. When I told her it was, she said she still has her Grandfather’s and still shoots it occasionally.


So Hoplophobia is alive and well, and apparently a trained response of the metrocon/metrosexuals…


I’m really beginning to wonder what kind of world we’ll be living in when these kids take over…


And a sidenote, MSWord thinks Hoplophobia is a mis-spelling…

And Peter has an OUTSTANDING post up HERE, that y’all need to go read. He’s done the due diligence, sifted the hype, and looked in corners most people miss.  I will say I concur 100% with what he’s written, and this is one of the best precis of the current situation I’ve seen anywhere, including magazines and the MSM (such as they are)…

Comments

Hoplophobia, it’s alive and well… — 34 Comments

  1. Oh man! I can perfectly picture you saying that. I would have loved to have been there to see it.

  3. It’s because hoplophobia isn’t a real word. 😉 It was made up by the pro-gun community, not that it’s not apt!

  4. heh… ok, clarification! It might now be considered a word, but only so much as “D’oh” is.

  7. RE the current State of the World: I KNOW that if Israel gets its Back pushed to the Wall, the Nukes will Fly. The question is, what will this Admin do? From what I’m reading between the lines, I think Barry will sit on his thumbs, no matter how many Jewish Votes it would cost him.

  9. I’ve seen your evil smile. You’re lucky those two individuals didn’t leave a puddle in the elevator.

    Good on ya!

  12. Andy- Am I ‘that’ predictable???

    Gerry- Who ME???

    Tango- Point(s) 🙂

    Keads- I didn’t do it on purpose, I swear!

    PH- 🙂

    Les- You are correct, and I think the answer would be ‘talk’ as usual…

    WSF- I’d rather not…

    DB- I’m not that bad am I???

    Matt- Yeah, but only to the oldies… 🙂

  13. Heh! Hoplophobes, indeed!

    My neighbor was one until he stepped out on his deck last week and came eyeball-to-eyeball to a “large” coyote. They had a short stare-off and the coyote trotted, not ran, trotted off. He’s since asked me about a suitable firearm.

    Yep, life’s an education.

  14. When I graduated from college and took a job in New York, I ended up wearing my duster, Resistol, Tony Lamas AND my spurs just to protect my private space on the subways and the busses.

    Those northeasterners. . .

    –AOA

  15. Too bad you didn’t have a NRA patch somewhere on your outfit. That really would have got them all a-twitter.

  16. If Presient Barry sits on his thumbs for the invasion of Israel, I’m going to throughly enjoy watching every single one of my Jewish friends turn on Obama like Elisha’s bears.

    Seriously, can we NOT piss off Israel?

  17. No body asked me, why I voted democratic, but I’ll tell you anyway!
    1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 43% isn’t.

    2. I voted Democrat because I thought that 9-11 was the telephone number of the police.

    .3. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

    4. I voted Democrat because Barack Obama said that everything was Bush’s fault.

    5. I voted Democrat because I wanted my children to be able to go to college free.

    6. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine, as long as nobody is offended by it.

    7. I voted Democrat because I wanted them to pass that bill so that we could see what was in it.

    8. I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

    9. I voted Democrat because I watch “The View”, 30 Rock, and Saturday Night Live every time that I can.

    10. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

    11. I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted, so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

    12. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits.

    13. I voted Democrat because I only get my news from CNN television news

    14. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.

    15. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe groups who would never get their agendas past the voters.

    16. I voted Democrat because I believe that socialized medical was s a good thing

    17. I voted Democrat because I think that it’s better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.

    18. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised “HOPE AND CHANGE”.

    19. I voted Democrat because I believe that we should’ve invaded Iraq.

    20. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass, it’s unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.

  20. Sometimes, NFO, you endanger my laptop via sinal tea rinse. This time you didn’t… but all the way through morning housecleaning and shopping, I was still chuckling. Like a good chili burn, that one just keeps going…

  21. Crucis- I’m surprised he didn’t try to make ‘friends’ with it… LOL

    AOA- That had to be fun 🙂

    Tim- I might do that…LOL

    MM- Good point, but he thinks he can ‘talk’ his way out of all that stuff… NOT!

    CJ- Love it!

    Skul- Wish I could have been lucky enough to actually meet him (and Elmer Keith too)

    PE- Good one! Bet he went the other way… 🙂

    Wing- Thanks! Glad I could make your day a bit better!

  22. I linked to Peter’s post too. Simply because it scared the crap out of me.

    If we ever get to go shooting together, you MUST wear the duster.

  23. Scene: the nice cafeteria on the mezzanine of the Gannet Bldg. in Rosslyn.
    Me in my black Lucchese boots, suit, duster and Stetson. I reached for my wallet and the Korean cashier screamed and dropped to the floor. Her brother came running out of kitchen with clever in hand, took in scene, said something in Korean, turned to me and said “Too much movies. Very nervous. Have dessert.”

  24. I’m with Keads, I’d like to have popcorn and a chair pulled up for that show. I don’t get much of that in this area. If that little interaction makes them quiver, one day here will liquefy their innards. Matter of fact, I just found a new restaurant and they had an NRA sticker on the door. I guess it’s a new favorite.

  25. Duster…cowboy boots…

    Huh? What? Oh, sorry about that. Got lost there for a second.

    The post elicited some laughter that got me some very strange looks in the hospital cafeteria this morning. I tried to post then, but the connection was crapola.

    Thanks for the AM entertainment! 🙂

  27. It is depressing how things have changed. Those punks have had too work for nothing and have been given everything. They seem loaded with bad manners too.

  29. Msgt- Ain’t doing it in the summer…

    Stretch- So I’m NOT the only one that’s gotten that kind of response around here…

    45er- Saw that, looks like the food is pretty good too!

    Snigs- Glad I could make your day a bit… 🙂

    JR- you and me both… I’m READY to leave

    ADM- True

    Fuzzy- 🙂

  32. several years ago, going to work on a copier at the University of Texas school of Socialism, er, social work. Girl gets on the elevator, and glares at me in my leather jacket. “you know, a cow DIED for that jacket”
    I just gave her a funny look, and said ‘you know about the cow? They said there were no witnesses!” She ran back out of the elevator before the doors even closed. Oh well, the campus cop I talked to five minutes later thought it was funny.

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