Ravenwood - 10/20/04 07:00 AM
Sometimes I just feel like walking into the Washington Post headquarters and saying "Boo!" to see if they actually piss their pants. This week the gun fearing wussies at the Post are crying because people are allowed to have guns in public outside Virginia's airports.
THE WILD WEST mentality that has turned Virginia into Holster Heaven -- where people openly packing guns can sashay almost anywhere . . .For those of you keeping score, the Post racks up points for using the anti-gun cliches like: arsenal, pistol packers, and of course Wild West.Though Ronald Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport don't -- and still won't -- allow weapons inside the terminals, on the airfields or in buildings adjacent to the airfields without prior arrangements, people will be free, as of Dec. 1, to transport their arsenals right onto the grounds and leave them stashed in their cars at the parking lots.
As for carrying firearms in the airport parking lot, here is a list of other Virginia parking lots in which you are also permitted to carry guns: movie theater, grocery store, dry cleaner, shopping mall, bank, and restaurant. Soon the airport parking lots will be turned into the types of killing fields we currently see when shopping at Wal-Mart.
UPDATE: For what it's worth, the Post says that other airports do allow guns into the airport terminal. That is not true, since the passage of SB660.
I carry a gun (one of those high-capacity 'spray' guns) to Love Field here in Dallas roughly, oh, every time I fly. Been that way for years.
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