Guns and Pot: Which States Are Friendly to Both?

The guns 'n' dope Venn diagram

Guns and Dope Party

A Reddit user recently posted a graphic called "The Venn Diagram of Cultural Politics," showing which states allow at least some citizens to use marijuana, which states recognize gay marriages, and which do both. The chart got us wondering: Which places embrace the personal freedoms beloved by the left and the right? Where can you buy both a vibrator and a Big Gulp? Where can a gay couple not just marry but avoid a high sin tax on the cigarettes they smoke after sex? Where can you carry a gun while passing a joint?

The image below tackles that last question. If you include states that have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes only, there are now 24 states that permit pot. There are 42 states where an adult non-felon's right to carry a concealed gun is either unrestricted or subject only to permissive "shall issue" laws. Sixteen states fall into both categories.

If you narrow the question, though—limiting yourself to places that allow marijuana even without a prescription and concealed carry even without a permit—the intersection shrinks to contain just one state. The Guns and Dope Party has found its regional base.

Jason Keisling

This chart was updated to note New York and Minnesota's restrictions on smokeable pot.

Comments

[Drake]

Question #3 – Which have no income tax and keep the rest low? (and elect people who will keep it that way – I’m looking at you New Hampshire)

[PM]

Washington and Nevada have no income tax, but have relatively high property and sales taxes.

[Raston Bot]

Wyoming.

[John]

Wyoming is colder than Colorado and not quite as exotic as Montana. So it has managed I think to limit the rich Prog retard invasion to Jackson Hole and not much else. Really, if you can stand the climate and can figure out a way to make a living there, Wyoming is one of the few “leave me the fuck alone” states left.

[Raston Bot]

Concur on all points.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

But is there a Whole Foods?

[Raston Bot]

There are whole foods all over Wyoming. Mostly antelope.

[Zeb]

And Jackson Hole is a lot better than a lot of other ski resorts because it’s actually a place for people who are really into skiing more than a status symbol for rich people like Vail or Telluride.

[Pro Libertate]

Of course, the best part of Wyoming is around Jackson. The rats.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Wife and I skied there on our Honeymoon and seriously contemplated buying property back in 93. Didn’t.

Bad, stupid Francisco.

*kicks self in ass repeatedly*

[Riven]

Montana–exotic?

I had no idea!

[John]

To some enviro douche bag from Hollywood or Silicon valley it is.

[Riven]

Sweet!

From now on, I’m exotic. I wonder if this makes me more marketable…

[John]

In the right circles, absolutely. I say this with experience. When I first moved to Washington DC, I played the “I was from the plains and once did manly shit like work on farms and hunt and shit” to the hilt. And it worked. The idea was to be smart and reasonable but not the same as the other city dweller guys. It works. You just have to go to a big coastal city.

[Riven]

Interesting! I garnered a lot of attention from considerably older men in the brief amount of time I lived in Tennessee, but I guess I appeal to a different demographic back here with other native Montanans.

It’s good to know, but I only really plan on living in Montana from here on out. Reppin’ 406, y’all.

[faeriemama]

I’ll pay $50 for one!

[James Taggart]

I would volunteer eastern Washington and eastern Oregon IF we could secede from the western halves of both states which are controlled by commie Bolshevik, Marxist, Trotskyite, bed-wetter, pinko, sissies and girly-men.

[Johnimo]

Wyoming: Desolate, mostly uninhabited, and they have the Red Desert ?. and as the above poster alludes, there’s nothing for most folks to do ? so they go elsewhere as they should.

[Zeb]

So far in NH the commitment to the no income or sales tax thing is pretty strong. You pretty much can’t run for governor for either party without making “the pledge”.

[DEG]

New Hampshire has an income tax. It’s called the Interest and Dividends tax.

[Zeb]

And business taxes. But no personal income tax on wages is still pretty good. The business taxes need to be lower.

[DEG]

Yes, no tax wages is good, and I agree the business tax needs to be lower.

Strangely enough, I read that NH’s beer tax is higher than MA’s.

[DEG]

“no tax wages”

Me good reader proof.

[faeriemama]

Master Yoda? Is that you?

[Zeb]

Hadn’t heard of the beer tax thing. MA sales tax and bottle deposit probably puts the total higher in MA. It seems like people still come to NH to buy beer.

[DEG]

Plus other costs to do business are higher in MA (like real estate and regulatory costs). If I can find my beer in NH, I buy it in NH because it almost always is cheaper in NH. If I can’t find it in NH, I bite the bullet and head down to MA.

According to the owner of the brew shop I usually frequent, he’s only allowed to sell beers that are on a NH Liquor Commission approved list. MA on the other hand is much more relaxed about what beers a retailer can sell.

[John]

OT Limbaugh looking at suing the Democratic National Committee for slander.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11…..committee/

Limbaugh is of course a public figure. That means he has to prove reckless disregard for the truth to win. That is generally hard to do. It is not however impossible. I am pretty sure that taking quotes out of context and claiming that they mean the exact opposite of what their context show them to mean would meet the test. So for example, if Limbaugh says “Even if a person is guilty of rape, they should go free if the government can’t prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt” and the Dem Committee just quoted “Even if a person is guilty of rape, they should go free” as evidence Limbaugh supports rape, that would be slander even of a public person. You would think the Democrats would have gotten good legal advice and made sure they skirted the line without going over into slander. But they have been so obsessed with Limbaugh for so long, it is entirely possible they figured they could say anything and went over the line.

I hope he sues. It will make for some entertaining litigation if nothing else.

[PM]

You would think the Democrats would have gotten good legal advice and made sure they skirted the line without going over into slander.

I’m sure they presumed a friendly court would be hearing the case, and besides, what do they care about a few million of their donors’ dollars going to a settlement or judgement? Getting the lie out there is all that matters. Nobody reads the retraction on page 156.

[John]

The plaintiff gets to choose the venue. Limbaugh is a Florida resident. And this would be against the national committee, which is likely incorporated in DC. So it could be heard in federal court in Florida under diversity jurisdiction or state court in Florida since Limbaugh is a Florida resident and the DNC most certainly has enough contacts with Florida for a court there to have personal jurisdiction over them.

So as defendants, the Dems won’t be able to pick a friendly jurisdiction or judge. Limbaugh as plaintiff will be able to do that.

And yes they could just go get the money from some Prog billionaire. It will however be delicious to watch them have to give the evil Limbaugh money. Don’t think that won’t hurt a lot even if they don’t really have to take the payment out of hide.

Also, I wonder if he might have a tortious interference of contract case against Media Matters for trying to bully his advertisers into dropping the show. Yes, they have a first amendment right to object to Limbaugh and tell his advertisers. But if they took statements out of context and lied to his advertizes about what he actually said, that would be tortious.

[Harvey_birdman]

How does this relate to guns and pot? If it was guns and prescription drugs I’d see your point, but it’s not.

[PM]

Protip: OT stands for “off topic” and is used to preface posts that do not relate to the original article.

[John]

It doesn’t. It was just a thread jack. And yeah, Limbaugh’s known pain killer addiction I suppose is a tie in to this thread.

[amagi1776]

I look forward to the day where I can open carry down mainstreet on my way from the Craft Beer Store to the Marijuana Store.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I’d rather just pick up a 4 pack of Dogfish Head Canna-IPA. I hate running errands.

[DaveSs]

I don’t know about including Illinois.

I don’t think having an MMC is a statutory prohibition for also getting a CCL (I could be wrong, didn’t pay much attention to that since I’m not getting an MMC), but due to the fact we have the ‘law enforcement objection’ for concealed carry, if LEOs can search for persons with an MMC you can be sure that having one will be an automatic objection for CCL applicants.

Now an objection is not an automatic rejection of your CCL app, but it may as well be for someone with an MMC.

[Ryan60657]

I believe this is correct. The rule being contemplated right now (as I understand it) is that in Illinois you may have EITHER a CCL OR a MMC, but NOT BOTH.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

That girl in the pic is my ideal woman.

I’m still baffled as to why the media and major parties consider concealed carry to be a benefit for cishet white males and not for women, racial minorities, sexual/gender minorities, etc. It’s obvious that better self-defense disproportionately benefits those most at danger of rape, murder, and battery, especially when teh privlejes are against them in police response and in trials.

[John]

The girl in the pic is quite sexy. I think the reason why the media doesn’t understand that women and small and often disliked minority groups like gays benefit most from gun ownership is they are just so ignorant about guns they have what amounts to an animist view of them. The typical lefty journalist views guns as just taboo objects that cause harm by their mere presence.

It is absolutely an example of ignorance and primitive thinking. They also just instinctively reject any sort of self help since they view the government as the solution to any problem. When someone like you or I look at the problem of gay bashing, our solution is to make it a contact sport by having more gays carry guns and be able to defend themselves. The typical leftist journalist looks at it as a problem the government isn’t trying hard enough to solve.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

Sometimes I think Pink Pistols are the only sane ones.

[OldMexican]

Re: A Secret Band of Robbers,

That girl in the pic is my ideal woman.

You mean you like women who wear cowboy hats?

The girl in the pic looks a lot like Reba McEntire. Not a bad thing, indeed. Just interesting.

[John]

She is a lot cuter than Reba. And you could do worse than Reba’s character in Tremors.

[Hugh Akston]

You know what I’d like to see is an infographic that compares states that issue gay marriage licenses with states that allow smoking in public. Call it “Where can you bum a fag?”

[np]

Is this chart accurate? Is it considering both issues separately or together, as in running a (med)-MJ shop or uinsg MJ while carrying?

Arizona is listed as an intersection, but wasn’t Sandusky guy initially threatened with up to 90 years prison time for running a MJ shop while having guns on premises? If I recall he relented and plead for 10 years.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I was under the impression that federal gun law makes it illegal to have guns if you use controlled substances.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I was under the impression federal law made MJ illegal.

This is the states saying fuck you to the feds. If they tell the feds to pound sand on one, I can’t imagine them enforcing the other, especially if it’s legal or have a prescription.

[np]

Get a Medical Marijuana Card, Lose Your Second Amendment Rights

I’d like to see a state actually stand up to the Feds, but I’m sure all hell would break loose if local police actually arrested Fed Marshalls/DEA/BATFE/etc.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Yeah, but it will require federal enforcement. I doubt the states, at least the intersection states, are going to rat you out to the feds.

Simply lie on the form. I figure, if the government can lie to get ACA passed, I can lie to them on a form that violates the Constitution.

Fuck the Feds That’s Why! FTFTW!

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

When you lie to the feds, that’s a felony. When they lie to you, that’s politics.

[np]

Yeah I was mistaken. It turns out to be Aaron Sandusky of California and it was Federal prosecutors.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The only one that surprises me is SD.

[John]

Which part? The lack of marijuana or the existence of the shall issue?

[Francisco d'Anconia]

The MJ.

[John]

I have never been there. But I imagine it being more socially conservative than the mountain states. There are more ranchers there and fewer skiers.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

While socially conservative, they always struck me as the rational as opposed to the irrational types. They aren’t as “leave us alone” as some of the other western states, but more so than Rhode Island and Michigan.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

As usual, the LIBERtarianTINES tell everyone what their real priorities for the nation are. What an agenda.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

As usual, the LIBERtarianTINES tell everyone what their real priorities for the nation are.

Yes, we are. Our real priority is liberty…

…moron.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Francisco,

Wrong as always. The REAL priority of you New Hippies is to fuck the country up. It has nothing whatsoever to do with responsible liberty, and everything to do with chaos.

You will probably get what you want, and then you will be taken over completely by those who know how to use and control fools like you.

[antisocial-ist]

Will they know how to form rational arguments?

[On The Road To Mandalay]

And your premise is?

[MSimon]

A return to the pre-Progressive Era.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Ya got me there and you found us out. I concede. There is no arguing with that sound logic, OTRTM. So I’m on my way out, right now, to register for one of the Teams. Not sure which, but I guess it doesn’t matter.

Keep up the good work.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Francisco,

Too bad you can’t defend your libertarian position with more than this “literary fart”. This is typical of you people. You are no different than those of other ideologies who can’t defend what you really believe. Good luck.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Too bad you can’t defend your libertarian position

Here dipshit. Defended. However, I’d say there is a 99.96% probability that you won’t understand it:

1. A person may do has he chooses, PROVIDED in doing so does not infringe upon the rights of another.

2. The ONLY legitimate function of government is to protect the rights of the individual.

That’s it. That’s the agenda.

Moron.

[Brian]

I just registered for Team Chaos.

And I’m already wearing my viking helmet.

[Sigivald]

Guns fuck the country up?

Or is it pot, which was not banned until 1937?

Try harder?

[Zeb]

When you get to Mandalay will you shut the fuck up?

I get so fucking sick of people who think that the war on drugs is a stupid distraction pushed by people who just want to get stoned. It is a huge issue for anyone who gives a shit about liberty or rule of law because it has perverted the whole purpose of the criminal justice system.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Zebocreep,

What does smoking pot have to do with liberty you fucking fool!? Guess you will just have to stay “fucking sick” won’t you?

[antisocial-ist]

What does being left alone by the government unless you infringe on another persons rights to life liberty or property have to do with liberty? This is an insanely stupid question even by troll standards.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Good answer, for an anarchist pimp such as yourself.

[Brian D]

What does smoking pot have to do with liberty you fucking fool!?

By itself, nothing. Whether or not a government should be empowered to forbid someone from choosing to smoke pot has alot to do with liberty. You fucking fool.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

But if you’re not free to throw teenagers into cement rape cages for half a decade because they own a plant, are you really free?

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Brian D,

Just think of liberty as kissing my ass, you fucking pimp.

[Zeb]

Well, I’m convinced. Time to pack it in.

[Brian]

“You fucking libertarians make me so crazy that I can’t even shit straight.”

An essay, by OTRTM.

[Zeb]

What does smoking pot have to do with liberty you fucking fool!?

Why don’t you ask the person who said it did have anything to do with liberty?

I said the war on drugs is a huge issue for anyone concerned with liberty. Because prohibition is a terrible perversion of the proper purpose of law and government.
You are a terrible troll.

[Kaptious Kristen]

That’s some fine word-mashing, there, Lou. *rolls eyes*

[DesigNate]

Fuck off slaver.

Oh, and just so you know, the government telling you what you can and cannot put in your body is a HUGE liberty issue.

[This Machine Slips It In]

Didn’t this retard swear that he was done with this site, done commenting, leaving forever? Or was that a joke handle?

[Zeb]

Are we assuming that that is Tulpa’s current identity?

If so, he’s really gone off his rocker.

[PH2050]

No, that was OTRTM, making a big scene like the loser attention whore they are, declaring vigorously that they were leaving this site forever.

It’s a testament to the utterly pathetic nature of their existence that they continue to return here only to lob juvenile insults that, for some strange reason, seem to almost always involve their ass and doing things to it.

[Francisco d'Anconia]

OT

Caught on Camera: Obamacare Architect Admits Deceiving Americans to Pass Law

In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare’s architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats pass the Affordable Care Act. The conservative group American Commitment posted Jonathan Gruber’s remarks, reportedly from an Oct. 17, 2013, event, on YouTube.

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” says the MIT economist who helped write Obamacare. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”

Because government knows what’s best for you. What a fucking piece of shit. The mask is gone, FYTW!

[John]

That is exactly analogous to Dick Cheney admitting on tape that of course the Bush Administration didn’t think Iraq had WMDs but lied to the public because they wanted to invade Iraq as part of their bigger plans for the middle east.

Of course unlike such an admission by Cheney, this admission will either be ignored or treated as “old news” by the media. The only upshot of this is that it shows that lying to the public is not without its downsides. Yeah, they go their bill. But since they got it based on lies, it has never met expectations and will forever be unpopular and a political albatross for the Democrats. That of course doesn’t bother that asshole. But it does serve as a warning to future politicians the next time some asshole tells them they need to lie and just pass their bright idea for the country.

[Kaptious Kristen]

FAKE SCANDUL!

[Counterfly]

Iraq was probably cheap compared to what this is going to cost.

[John]

I am sure it was in both money and lost lives. I guarantee you a lot more than 10,000 Americans are going to die prematurely thanks to this cluster fuck.

[Hyperion]

But John, 40 million people a year were dying because of a lack of health insurance, right before the ACA went into effect. Mostly women and children.

[Raston Bot]

OOPS!

[DesigNate]

What’s fucking hilarious about that is the American voter wasn’t stupid, saw straight through the lie, and hated this shit burger from day 1.

[John]

They did. But it was too late. Massachusetts voted for Scott Brown trying to stop it. The country punished the Democrats severely in the 2010 mid terms for doing it. But it was too late. What were the voters supposed to do once those assholes were in office?

And remember, Obama never campaigned on doing healthcare reform. They sprung that on the country after he was elected.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

Even Massachusetts.

[heartburn]

I thought Connecticut was a “shall issue” state.

[Jesse Walker]

It’s on the border but is technically may-issue.

[Knarf Yenrab!]

That’s an impressive graphic. As it becomes more common in the future, I suspect it will be known as the Keisling-Walker Diagram.

[Kaptious Kristen]

OT: Fun with asset forfeiture

[John]

One city attorney called his legal documents a “masterpiece of deception” and has won 96 percent of his forfeiture cases.

This will not happen, but the Institute for Justice needs to turn this asshole into his bar. He just admitted to lying to the court. That is the kind of thing that normally gets your license suspended. That is of course unless you are lying for the government and then its okay.

Too bad we don’t have an actual major media that is interested in doing anything but cover for Obama’s sorry ass. Those clips would make for some real must see TV investigative journalism.

[DesigNate]

If only we did.

[waffles]

That’s so brazen I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t read so many stories here first.

[Migrant Log Picker]

Nicely done, Kristen.

[Derpetologist]

Your lunch time derp:

When I lived in Chicago, the closest gun range was Illinois Gun Works in Elmwood Park. About a year after I started going there, it was hit with a bunch of EPA fines for lead pollution and forced to close. I was forced to go to another gun range way outside the city in Lombard called Article II. I presume they meant 2nd Amendment. They had this stupid plaque inside:

http://tractioncontrol.well-re…..plaque.jpg

Made me sigh every time I saw it.

[sarcasmic]

Um, uh…

[John]

And the moment the courts made Chicago lift its gun ban the murder rate went through the floor. There is literally not a single bit of evidence that shows increased gun ownership leads to anything but safer communities.

The evidence for that is so persuasive and undeniable that any person who pushes for a gun ban should be assumed to want innocent people to be victimized by criminals. If you support gun control, you want poor people to die at the hands of criminals. It is just that simple.

[Derpetologist]

I thought about getting a Chicago Firearm Permit. When I read all the ridiculous rules, I gave up. The permit costs $500, requires a 10-hour class, fingerprinting, and informing the police of the gun’s status every year. Oh, and the office that accepted the applications only 2 days a week from 10 AM to 2 PM.

It was like that part in the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur says that he found the demolition notice for his house in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet which hand been shoved into a disused lavatory with a sign on the door which read “beware of the leopard”.

[John]

It seems to have allowed the population to be armed enough to lower the murder rate.

[Derpetologist]

Except a Chicago Firearm Permit only allows you to own a gun in Chicago city limits. You still need a CC permit to actually carry it around.

If you want to carry a gun in Chicago, you have to get 3 permits: a firearm owner’s ID card, a Chicago firearm permit, and CC permit.

You have to show the FOID card even just to buy ammo or use a range anywhere in Illinois. You can’t even rent a gun without a FOID card.

[John]

You can still have it in your home and that is a huge improvement.

[Meriwether]

There is no chicago firearm pelt anymore. They ditched it when the state adopted their CC legislation.

[Meriwether]

*permit, not pelt

[DaveSs]

Chicago shit-canned ALL city registration and licenses for firearms after Concealed Carry.

All they have left is AWB, Mags(15rd), and laser sights.

[Derpetologist]

*had been shoved

[sarcasmic]

If you support gun control, you want poor people to die at the hands of criminals. It is just that simple.

No, no, no, no, NO!

If you support gun control then you want to get guns out of the hands of criminals! Don’t you know anything? How are criminals going to be disarmed without gun control? If you don’t support gun control, then you support arming criminals! Why do you want criminals to be armed? Huh? Why?

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

If you make the dangerous, violent criminals into LEOs, they’re no longer criminals. Problem solved!

[Peter]

Until Marijuana is legal on the Federal level, gun ownership and pot use will continue to be problematic. On the Form 7743, which is required for all gun sales, question 10e asks if you are a user or addicted to illegal drugs. Since Marijuana is illegal on the Federal level, this would disqualify any pot user from purchasing a firearm regardless of it’s legality on the state level.

[John]

IF the GOP were smart, which of course they are not, they would pass a law taking Marijuana off of schedule 3 and watch Obama squirm and almost certainly veto it. It would do a tremendous amount to show the country just exactly which party is the party of social control.

[waffles]

John, marijuana is schedule I, not III. That means according to the federal government it is dangerous and has no accepted medical use.

[John]

That is right. My mistake. Regardless, it can be taken off without an act of Congress.

[Hyperion]

How will cannabis ever be legal on the federal level? Can a referendum be called on a national level? Because if not, I don’t see cannabis ever being legal on the federal level. It would take congress repealing the law, right? Let’s see, we have 4 libertarians out of about 535 members of congress, let’s do the math here…

[Zeb]

There are a good number of reps who would vote to end federal prohibition of cannabis. Not nearly enough yet, but I don’t think it has to be a libertarian thing. Once enough states legalize, I bet Congress will catch up.

[Hyperion]

I’m betting that more than half the states will legalize and there still will not be enough votes in congress. Also, the POTUS has to sign it. I’d almost be willing to wager that all of the states will legalize before it’s legal on the federal level.

[John]

Actually, it would take the President having the FDA take marijuana off of schedule 3. The law doesn’t ban anything in particular. It gives the FDA to ban and regulate drugs it deems dangerous.

Every time you hear Obama talking about how he supports legalized marijuana but also wants to affirm the primacy of federal law, remember he has the power to make marijuana legal under federal law. He just chooses not to do so.

[Hyperion]

So basically what you’re saying is that we have a law that throws people in cages and basically ruins their lives forever, and congress has never approved of such law?

[John]

They totally approved it if for no other reason than they could have ordered the FDA to take it off and never have.

The point is that Obama has the power to take it off and has chosen not to. So his appeals to the sanctity of federal law and what a problem this is are nothing but his usual bullshit.

[Zeb]

Slight correction, John. Marijuana is on schedule 1. If it were on Sch. 3 it would at least make sense in the context of the CSA.

[Sigivald]

4473, I think you mean.

And note that that only affects purchases from gun dealers; there’s no 4473 requirement on private sales.

[Derpetologist]

Red Dawn explains gun control:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OaF-j8x5Vc

[John]

People are always taking about how there will some day be mass civil unrest in America when and if the fed based economy finally goes tits up. They base this prediction on what usually happens in Europe when the economy really goes down.

I don’t think those predictions are right. The US has suffered multiple full on economic collapses in its history. Unemployment was nearly 30% in the early thirties. The depressions of 1836 and 1873 were even more severe than the one in the 30s. And yet, there was never any real break down in order.

I think the reason for that is widespread gun ownership. What is civil unrest? It is the mob getting together and going and burning down and stealing other people’s shit. That is all it is. The problem is that the US is too well armed for such things to ever occur in this country outside of a few urban areas where the government has through gun control disarmed the public. Outside of those few places, gun ownership is damn near universal in this country. So going out and trying to steal and burn down other people’s shit is generally a ticket to getting a bullet in your head. And thus won’t happen no matter how bad the economy gets.

[Derpetologist]

Yeah. Sort of like the only stores in LA that didn’t get looted in the 1992 riots were the ones with gun-toting Koreans on the roof.

[John]

And the looting never extended into the suburbs. The people in the burbs were armed and were waiting. That is why.

[Sigivald]

Well, that and the suburbs are farther away, and far less loot-dense than places with stores to rob.

[Mainer2]

Sometimes it’s fun just to rewatch those Korean shop keepers on youtube.

[Hyperion]

Have to agree, any gangs of roving thugs looting and burning won’t be able to venture far outside the city limits, they’ll get moved down like bugs.

[Hyperion]

mowed down.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

OT: I need an affordable, small CC gun that isn’t going to be too hard on my wrists. Recommendations?

[Derpetologist]

Ruger LCR .22 or any 6-shot .380

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

Isn’t .22 too weak for a self-defense round?

[Derpetologist]

Nope. The graveyards are full of people who were killed by .22. Many of the victims of the VT massacre were killed by .22s.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

Interesting. I’ve been looking at the SIG P238, but since money is tight, I need to find some other options. There are some very well made 22s for cheap…

[OneOut]

Look at the 22 magnum.

.22 has killed a lot of people and animals, that is true.

But it lacks stopping power. If the threat is very close, and self defense usually is, a .22 might not stop the threat before it can hurt you. If a threat dies after he has been shot but still stabs you it might not save your life.

[Gray Ghost]

Define affordable. Also, we can make recommendations, but you’re really going to have to try them out at your local range to see if their recoil etc… bugs you. Most ranges will have various models of pistols available for rental. This guy has a lot of reviews of “mouseguns”—small and very small pistols—as well as ballistics tests for the bullets that come out of them.

All that said, I am not a fan of using a .22 for self-defense, unless it’s your only option. Further, I do not find most .22 pistols to be sufficiently reliable for self-defense. Moving up in power, I’ve read interesting things about .327 Federal Magnum, but have not shot any, nor have I seen a lot of places that stock ammo for it. .380 ACP is usually easy to find, if less powerful than I’d like for a handgun—.380 will either expand like 9mm or it’ll penetrate adequately (12 inches in gelatin, per the FBI), but it usually won’t do both. 9mmx19 (9mm Luger, Parabellum, etc…) will. No idea if 9mm Makarov (9mmx18) will.

cont.

[Gray Ghost]

I’ve really liked the SiG P238 and its bigger brother, the P938. Either are smaller than the subcompact 9mm Glock 26, both are accurate, and the P238 recoils very little for me. Cons are that they’re kinda pricey and they’re single-action only, like a 1911. Not impossible to learn, but it’ll take longer to make flicking off the safety an unconscious movement. Striker-fired pistols, like Glocks, Smith M&Ps;/Shields and what I have, a Kahr, are much easier: just pull the trigger.

The Kahr P380 I carry is extremely tiny and, within a Remora holster, is easily carryable in a front pants pocket where it looks to everyone like you’re carrying a phablet. Mine isn’t the most reliable—despite my best efforts at fluffing and buffing—but it’s infinitely preferable to not having a gun. And it’s so convenient to carry, as opposed to the Glock 30/MTAC combo I also have, that you find yourself doing it all the time. Remora also makes attachments for that holster to be used as either a thigh or ankle holster, Riven. See Faila (Failla?) Photography’s holster vids on youtube.

Kahr’s various 9mms are only a tad bigger, and depending on the level you choose, not terribly expensive. I think list for the CW line is only something like $350-400. Other people like S&W’s Shield or Ruger’s LCP/LCR. If I were made of money, I’d love either a vintage HK P7 or a modern Boberg: both are north of a K right now.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

Wow, thanks for the extensive answer! It sounds like my next step is to find a pistol range and start trying things out.

And more generally, thanks for the recommendations, everyone.

[BFawlty]

Walther PPS is another good 9.

[Riven]

How small is small? I’ve been looking pretty closely at an M&P Shield.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I just want to be able to wear normal clothes, but stay safe without scaring the progs I work with.

[Riven]

Is there already a method of concealment you like? I know a couple people who appendix-carry, and their biggest concern is always imprinting–they need a pretty narrow gun.

I’m looking at thigh holsters because my typical article of clothing is a dress, so my chief concern is weight.

A case can be made for “pocket pistols,” but right meow I prefer a full-sized handgun for myself. If I were a more disciplined shooter/better shot, I’d look into a pocket option.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I’ve never carried before, so I don’t know. I tend to wear pretty slim, body conforming clothes.

Everything I’ve heard about pocket pistols makes me think I’d have a hard time practicing with them without triggering wrist pain.

[Riven]

I understand your plight of body conforming clothes. I’d say your biggest concern is definitely going to be width, since that’s the case.

I consider myself very much a beginner for conceal carry ideals. That said, I’d look into an M&P Shield or S&W Bodyguard. They both fit comfortably in my small hands, but a gentleman might have some issues with the bodyguard, being the smaller of the two.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I’ll check those out. M&P means it’s optimized for shooting dogs and airdropping en masse to ISIS, right?

[Riven]

That’s the basic idea of it, yeah. You just have to remember when you go to buy one to get a model that doesn’t shoot itself. It seems like that’s largely where the problem occurs.

[Zeb]

I’ve heard that if your ass is already full of crystal meth, your vagina is a good place to keep your pistol.

Sorry.

[antisocial-ist]

For my money, you can’t beat a .38 special. There’s plenty of companies that still make relatively cheap models, and its pretty hard to fuck up a revolver.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I love do revolvers, but my state penalizes you if you use one for CCW training.

[Zeb]

Wait, what?

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

If you do the classes using a revolver, you can’t carry an automatic.

[Brendan]

http://www.keltecweapons.com/our-guns/p-32/pistol/

This is as small as I would ever go and it shoots pretty well.

[ScottM1A]

Any steel 9mm, a K frame S&W revolver with .38 special ammo or some .380 semi autos. Stay away from rimfire guns like both the .22lr and .22 magnum because rimfire ammo has a tendency of occasional random misfires even with premium ammo. The other reason is although they can be lethal they don’t have much in the way of immediate stopping power, the combination of a light bullet and slowish speed leaves quite a bit to be desired when it comes to kinetic energy.

[Jeff B.]

Rhode Island is in the wrong column. The only thing “shall-issue” about it is that local police have the *option* of issuing permits, and must do so on a shall-issue basis *if* they do. Most don’t, referring applicants instead to the AG, who issues on a may (and, typical of left-liberal states, typically won’t) issue basis.

[Mainer2]

I was too late to comment on the earlier thread about the state of Illinois being a deadbeat tenant…but…
when I was doing some book keeping for a small home heating oil business. the worst and I mean WORST deadbeats were government agencies and churches. We actually had to file in small claims to get a catholic church to pay their bill.

[sarcasmic]

When I was working at McDonalds back in the day, a nun ordered her food and then got really pissed about the sales tax. I had to get a manager to do some mojo to take it off her bill. I knew that churches aren’t subject to income tax, but nuns not having to pay sales tax? That was a new one.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Come to think of it, carrying concealed weapons and smoking pot really is a good idea. Maybe more of you libertarian dregs will get even higher and kill each other off.

[Hyperion]

Murika is no longer the freest country on earth.

[sarcasmic]

That was mature.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

Help, I’m trying to shoot someone but I’m too high to figure out the safety.

Screw it. Imma watch cartoons.

[Hyperion]

I’m pretty sure that it’s Tulpa.

[Zeb]

Tulpa was always an asshole, but I seem to remember that he used to make arguments instead of just hurling abuse. Must have changed his prescription. Or maybe he still thinks he is educating us by exposing us to different points of view.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

There is no freaking way that’s Tulpa. Why does every troll who posts here have to secretly be rectal or Tulpa? There are plenty of morons on the internet with the means and the motive.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Secret Band of Robbers,

Morons who call other people morons because they don’t agree with each others bullshit. Right?

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

I was really hoping for something inflammatory and maybe slightly more coherent. Would you mind trying again?

[Zeb]

I know it’s hard to tell sometimes, but Cheech and Chong movies were not actually documentaries.

[Bruce Majors Libertarian4Mayor]

Did you leave DC off because everyone does out of these lists of the states?

Or because both its prohibition laws are in flux?

You do know Reason HQ is in DC don’t you?

[Robert]

Rah, RAW!

[Zeb]

Word. Ostriches.

[XM]

I’m surprised Vermont is in the middle.

[Zeb]

VT, somewhat surprisingly, has about the best gun laws in the country. No permits at all for owning or carrying guns, concealed or not.

[carltonb35]

Making a check of $48500/month with online working,, you make money $81/hour from laptop in free time.My neighbour’s sister has been averaging $15750/months now and she works about 20 hours a week. i make $13900 last month, it is realy easy and trustful ,
================= ?W?W?W.W?O?R?K?4?H?O?U?R.C?O?M?

[bassjoe]

It’s sort of shocking how much easier it is for you to get a gun than to get a plant.

[Slothrop]

“Where can you buy both a vibrator and a Big Gulp? Where can a gay couple not just marry but avoid a high sin tax on the cigarettes they smoke after sex?”

I didn’t even make it to the next sentence before I said “LOL it’s called Oregon”–and, sure enough…

[Steven Are]

Yeah, except the law does not allow you to carry a gun while impaired, but why let a little fact get in the way of your silly assed whiney emotional argument?

[Edwin]

this chart is inaccurate when you take into consideration practical realities. From what I understand, it’s still illegal in Chicago to own a gun. The city council or whatever keeps fighting SCOTUS pro-2nd rulings, and trying to weasel out of them. And it’s still pointless if you can’t carry, too.

[John]

Upper Midwest white progs are a bit of a different breed than coastal ones. They love big government but they are not as obsessed with guns and social control the way coastal progs are.

[AlgerHiss]

Minnesota is an absolutely schizophrenic, silly-assed state. Their beloved “iron range” is communist central. One state house member would proudly declare that every newborn’s crib “contains a hockey stick and a copy of the communist manifesto”.

As well, they like to give the impression that they were always pure and clean when it came to civil rights. What they don’t want you to know is that twice, they voted to disallow blacks the right to vote.

Yeah?Minnesota?is one good place for intelligent, civilized folks to avoid.

[John]

In fairness is that representative of what the actual voters would want or is it representative of just how insane the education establishment is? I think it is more of the latter. That kind of horseshit goes on in Red States too. It is just what those assholes do.

[John]

Urban progs are horrible everywhere. Look at the Houston Mayor for example. The difference I think is that the suburban progs in Wisconsin and Minnisota tend to be as you point out less insane. In a state like Maryland or Massachusetts the suburban Progs are just as insane as the urban ones.

[Zeb]

I think it is more of a city/country thing than a coast/flyover thing. There are just more big, liberal dominated cities on the coasts. Get out of the cities on the East Coast and people are damn well keeping their guns.

[Pope Jimbo]

Tundra,

I think our progs are worse. Our progs tend to really go at it because of an inferiority complex with regards to the coastal progs. They secretly buy into the coastal elite’s disdain for them as “flyover country”.

They believe that if they could just pass one more good law (maybe two at the outside) they would have utopia and finally the coastal progs would love them.

[antisocial-ist]

Upper Midwest people hunt, or have friends and family that do. They are therefore not pants shitting animist about guns.

[lap83]

I don’t know about the progs being less obsessed with guns in MN, I’m sure plenty would love to ban them. But hunting is a big deal outside of the Twin Cities. Politicians aren’t going to die on that hill.

[Brian D]

That needs to be on a T-shirt.

[sarcasmic]

Liberty is tyranny of the corporations!

/Tony

[Hyperion]

Being left alone scares most people.

[On The Road To Mandalay]

Dumbass? You can do better than that can’t you?

[Hyperion]

Can’t you anarchists see the disaster that you are wishing upon society? A guy orders some weed and beer to be delivered by drone, and then when the drone arrives, he takes the goodies and shoots down the drone with his scary assault rifle, just for fun (laughs maniacally)?

[The Hyperbole]

I found one, and was gonna post a link but they want $29 for a t=shirt so fuck them.

[A Secret Band of Robbers]

That would be an amazing send-off for a gay wedding.

[Bardas Phocas]

Can drones deliver sodomy?

[Brian D]

Who will make decisions for me?!

[lap83]

Well you won’t be left alone if you’re not a total douchebag in your personal life. Which provokes the question, could that be how progressivism came about? Douchebags wanting to force people to take care of them because no one wants to voluntary?

[lap83]

yeah this

[Pope Jimbo]

This. The biggest subject of conversation in the large metropolitan office here in Minneapolis that I am working at today is whether you got your deer this weekend (it was opener last weekend).

It is even more talked about than the first snowstorm of the year which is doing a pretty good job fucking up the commute.

[lap83]

voluntarily*

[Mike M.]

I mean, Al Franken? Seriously?

[Pope Jimbo]

As someone being fleeced by Minnesota tax collectors, I am happy to pay whatever it takes to keep the Rangers up on the Iron Range. God forbid we stop sending them tons of taxpayer money and force them to migrate from the Range into the rest of our wonderful state.

[DesigNate]

If you attach a giant dildo to it.

[OneOut]

This is the Houston mayor’s problem.

She craves acceptance into the liberal/gay elite.

[DrZaius]

Come on dude. We all know that snow only fucks up the commute in Atlanta.

[faeriemama]

Nuff said.

[ScottM1A]

On the road to Mandalay of course.