Missouri Lawmakers Pass Expanded Gun Rights on Final Day

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3. I don't trust people to discern between a perceived threat and

an actual threat. This is the problem - people are hyper-vigilant.

True story - I was in a hardware store a couple of years ago, I was looking for a specific item in the wrong aisle and walked around a corner into the next one. I startled an older guy (I'm a short black woman so I can only imagine if I was a tall black male teenager or man). I don't know what his problem was but he grabbed at his hip for his gun, wide eyed and intense. Thank GOD he didn't have his gun that day! I have no doubt he would have shot me.

Another time, also in Missouri, I startled a woman at a dog training class in Petco. She had this huge dog (not very disciplined either) that went into protective mode because she freaked out. The dog lunged at me and she could barely hold him. Once she realized I was just minding my own business she was saying, "Bad dog! Heel!" trying to get this dog under control, a dog that was just a perfectly normal a few seconds before. I had noticed how pretty she was and wondered about her breed.

I was just looking for the fuggin cat food, ffs!! People need to calm the f down.

I don't need to be worrying about random people with guns, God help me. God help us all.