Back to Normal

April 28, 2021

We are all trying to get back to normal, or at least trying to define our new normal. The reality is things will be different. We just don’t know how different they will be. Many of us want to get back to dining in restaurants, and shopping offline. We want to be with and serviced by people. Zoom and Amazon have been great, but hopefully they won’t define the new normal. As the song goes, “People who need people…” However, there is one initiative that will keep people at home, and maybe under their covers. It’s the number of states that allow the open carrying of firearms in public.

Anywhere from 15 to 45 states allow the open carrying of guns in one form or another. The last thing I want to be doing is ringing up a big tab at a nice restaurant while the guy in the next table over is brandishing a gun. There is nothing like a spoonful of gun powder to help the manicotti go down. I would rather stay home, and keep doing what I am doing, which is eating and spending less. The same goes for shopping. I would like to go to a store, but I certainly don’t need to go to a store. We are on a first name basis with all of our delivery guys. It’s kind of nice.

If the service providers who depend on the public spending money in their establishments don’t protest these outrageous abuses of the Second Amendment, they might as well give up and go home. No one wants to order off of the menu at the point of a gun.