Last month I made the pilgrimage
like many up to Harrisburg PA for the Great American Outdoor Show and was
impressed by the size of this show with 650,000 sq\ft of floor space….
It took me three hours of driving
up 81 to find traffic actually backed up onto route 81 and still 2 miles from
the Farm Show complex. After sitting in traffic for 1-1/2 hours I came up to
several FULL parking lots and instructions to go to the Harrisburg mall to be
bussed over to the show. Another hour delay…
Once inside we found lines
everywhere in the numerous show buildings, food lines, bathrooms, and most
every booth of the 1,000+ vendors that were there. Interesting thing was with
all of these people from all over the United States, even some of them
obnoxious Northerners, it was a day of bumping into each other and waiting on
everything...
During the 4 hours that I was at
that show I must have bumped into 20-30 strangers where everybody said “excuse
me” or even stood aside allowing other people to go buy. Stood in a food line
for 15 minutes waiting to get a $7 crab cake that confirmed I was still hungry
and looking for more and finding another long line. There were crowds at every
function and at most every booth and display and it was easy to get separated
from friends and fellow “Gun-nuts”. In fact if you wanted to go to another
exhibition hall you basically had to merge into the river flow of people and
catch the current to the location you were looking for...
Now take into consideration that
the majority of the 200,000+ attendees to a show like this that focuses on guns,
hunting, Safari hunting packages, shooting sports, fishing, archery, etc. are
considered “Gun-Nuts” to many of our Liberal friends and the mainstream media.
In fact Ted Nugent was there meeting and talking with hundreds of people there…
Now with Pennsylvania being a
State that allows concealed carry of guns by permit holders, along with
honoring surrounding States permits such as my State Virginia permit, there
were plenty of armed people during that week. With that not one reported mass
shooting, single shooting, riot, fight, carnage, rape, disturbance, or even
flipping over of cars in the parking lot like after many NBA Championship
games...
Surely, and please don't call me
Shirley, with such a concentration of these gun-nuts and pro 2nd
amendment radicals there must have been something to repeat over & over on
the Liberal mainstream media outlets? I Could not find a single report of any
incident. Did I miss something?.....
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