Colbert I. King: I own a gun. Here’s why I’m not getting a concealed-carry license.
Chief Tango sends us a link from the Washington Post columnist, Colbert King who wants to cuddle up to the Jeff Bezos party line at the Post by explaining to us who he won’t get his concealed carry permit from the District of Columbia after the latest round of bouts in the courts dismantled the District’s anti-gun owner restrictions.
While my own weapon is trigger-locked with the key out of reach, I don’t particularly like myself when I have a gun on my hip.
Recalling my experience years ago when I was pressed into service to help protect a foreign leader attending a U.N. General Assembly session and making an official visit to Washington, I back off the idea of carrying a lethal weapon.
I liked the experience way too much.
I loved the weight of the weapon on my hip, the glances I got from the people on the streets, in the hotels and at receptions who noticed the gun when my jacket slid open.
I liked too much the feeling of empowerment, and the what? — the itchiness to show off, to be seen taking on possible threats. Just spoiling for a challenge.
Back then, the lure of coming off macho was in my head.
It could be with me now.
Actually, I agree with King’s reasons to not carry a gun – particularly if he’s going to be a big pussy and emote all over the internet about it. His only gun is a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, for crying out loud. He’s so afraid of the pea-shooter that he keeps a trigger lock on it and hides the key from himself.
If he was “spoiling for a challenge” while he wore a handgun on his hip, he’s too immature to be carrying a gun.
I wear a gun every time I leave the house, and I don’t even think about it. My jacket has never “slid open” in public – it’s a concealed weapon. I’m planning to get a permit in DC because I’m buying a business in the District, and King is correct – there are too many illegal guns there in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. I’m very happy that Mr King won’t be one of them.
Category: Guns
Why in the hell would a newspaper columnist be “… pressed into service to help protect a foreign leader attending a U.N. General Assembly session and making an official visit to Washington”?
It says on his Wikipedia page that he was a “special officer” in the State Department whatever the hell that is.
Who knows? Maybe, just maybe he was in DSS. Doubt it, though.
His mother told him that he was “special”, ergo that makes him a “special officer”.
His comments as to (a tip of the hat to Psaul) his attitude while carrying a weapon seems to indicate that he does not/did not possess the requisite judgment to provide security.
Maybe he was THIS SPECIAL?
I’m guessing that a regular on the security detail was sick that day and they needed a warm body to fill a seat, kind of a Hey You! detail.
Well BLESS his little bleeding heart! As for me, I already have a CCW License and I carry everywhere I go, armed law-abiding people are citizens, those who choose to be like Mr. King IMHO are patiently waiting to become VICTIMS so they have yet another crisis du jour to bawl about.
“I don’t particularly like myself when I have a gun on my hip”
I’ll bet nobody else does either. Some people just should not carry and you are one of them.
Truth be known, he, like every other stupid #libidiot, hates himself, his race, his country and God himself and has spent a lifetime letting it be known by way of his position at an MSM outlet…
Dumb fuck…..
Two words that sum up Mr. King perfectly, “Dumb Fuck”!!
He would reply but he’s busy douching the sand out of his mangina.
100% spot on, Thunderstixx.
“I loved the weight of the weapon on my hip, the glances I got from the people on the streets, in the hotels and at receptions who noticed the gun when my jacket slid open”
Somebody please take this guy’s weapon before he hurts himself.
People start sniffing the air when I’m around and carrying. Haven’t they ever smelled Hoppe’s #9 before? Kinda like Old Spice.
It’s the smell of the Galco holster that gives me away.
By the way, his bio says that he was a AG Corps officer in the Army.
As an AG Officer he probably caused more pain than any real life Green Beret! (I was a Marine Adjutant!).
Now that’s funny. And true.
Sigh, I was sentenced to be the Adjutant for one battalion, then a few years later when the CO of the battalion I was commanding a company in, found out I that this was actually my THIRD company command, gave me a choice: You can be the Adjutant or the S-4. Not much of a choice was it, I did happen to know that the S-4 NCO was very squared away. Hence I avoided going back to S-1 jail and did time as the S-4.
Fun huh?
Glad you have enough self awareness to understand that you shouldn’t carry routinely, Mr. King. It is quite refreshing to see a lefty at least that honest.
Now, if we can just you and your ilk to quit projecting your personal issues on everyone else, we might be able to happily coexist. Most folks who carry are not looking for an excuse to use what they carry. Most folks are simply prepared in the unlikely event that they need to defend themselves.
For what it’s worth, I don’t have auto insurance because I plan to have an accident. It’s just in case it happens in spite of my plans otherwise.
Never go “full retard”, because if you do the above can happen to you too …
Another case of arrested development I guess. He quit maturing at about 15 and still has the same emotions, thoughts and weak will that he did back then.
Yet another pontificating pussy. Jonn’s absolutely right, this guy should not be armed. Contrary to what Colbert King, in his embarrassing display of self-importance, would have us believe, his immaturity has no bearing whatsoever on the fitness of any other law-abiding citizen to exercise any of their rights.
Dude is the poster child for the pussification of America… probably looks up to pajama boy as his hero!
Gee, why does he think he needs a gun in the first place?
He’s a reporter, right? He might want to carry one into bad neighborhoods, if he ever goes into any to ‘get the story’, but looking at his photo suggests that the only outdoor places he goes to are pricey sandwich shops. I’m sure he never gets wet.
He doesn’t even have a handgun, right? But he’s letting us all know that he gets quivers in some spots when he’s got his hands on the object of his silly speech, clearly telling us that he’s too self-serving and immature to own one in the first place.
So I repeat my question: why does this twit think he needs a gun in the first place?
The cray cray is strong with this one. I live in a right to carry state where no CCW is required (though I have one) and I dont even think about it, its like my clip knife I always have on me.
My S&W.40 Shield helped scare off a car jacker last spring. I was stopped at a light in a rougher neighborhood in a nearby city when a guy came up and tried to open my car door and started knocking on my window and yelling at me to open up…I never saw a weapon on him but all I had to do was pull my pistol from where I keep in in the console and he ran off. First and only time I have ever had the need of a weapon but I am glad I had it.
Guys like this do more harm to the gun control crowd than help it… good!
I bet that he thinks that he can own a fire arm but I cannot own one. Maybe I should not say that being that I don’t know if he is pro 2ND or not. The Springfield XDSC .40 that I carry which is a little too wide for my small hands is a curse that I live with so I just ordered the brand spanking new XDE 9MM single stack and then decided to online review it and found out that the trigger is almost up to the front trigger guard and the guy doing the review says not a problem if the user has large hands BUT maybe a problem with peeps with small hands. I liked it because of the hammer de cocking lever and narrow frame but did not know about the long trigger pull when in the initial DA mode. Same thing with the S&W 4046 I carried after 9/11 while employed with Brink’s. I guess this is just another ass backwards thing I just did but will try and work around it.
Kel-tec PMR-30 Autoloader 1911 style .22 lr magnum. 30 rounds of ass kicker. Easy to bring accurate follow up shots. Super accurate pistol.Most folks talk shit about the double duce, but let’s not forget this is a rifle round not a pistol caliber. As for lethality, well CCI STINGERs will exceed 59 ft./lbs of energy out past 440 yards which will cause a lethal wound according to the old Army ballistic specs. This is a rifle round in a auto pistol with 30 .22lr mags in it. Plenty of ammo and power to kill the shit out of you.
This one’s been on my wish list for awhile. At 80-100 bucks for a brick of 500 rounds (depending on brand/type), it’s definitely affordable ammo. And yea, 30 rounds in a flush mag. Nice. Very very nice.
so he cums in his trou when he carries and he doesn’t like running around with a wet spot. I think that’s what all that translated to?
The cited article is a solid example of “projection”. Many, if not most, of the victim-disarmnament crowd have the stated fantasies and deficiencies, and project onto us their broken selves. Knowing they themselves are sick puppies, they want “someone” to control them, but do not want to be on the leash alone.
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Well played, sir!
*POW!*, right in the kisser.
I’m thinking of the time when my older daughter, not quite 3 at the time, came running to me at bedtime in tears because she was afraid to go to her room. I asked why she was scared. She said, “Big bad wolf in my room!”
So I took a rifle from the safe, went to her bedroom, and told her to stay behind Daddy while I cleared her room, her closet, behind her dresser, and under her bed. I asked her if she knew what would happen if there was any variety of big bad wolf present. She smiled and said, “Daddy shoot it!”
Every once in a while, she still gets scared and I have to remind her that the big bad wolf is scared of Daddy and his rifle(s) (and pistols, and shotguns, and Mommy’s weapons). I also remind her that when she’s big enough, I’ll teach her to shoot the big bad wolf, too. That puts a smile on her face every time.
Civilization is -not- doomed.
Bravo.
Well done TOW
Parenting. You’re doing it right.
BZ, TOW.
“I don’t particularly like myself when I have a gun on my hip.”
Well, I guess that gives you two choices, doesn’t it?
Either DISarm yourself, or shoot yourself.
See? Problem solved either way.
Why do I have to do all the heavy thinking for you?
Who is this stupid pussy? He sounds like Ralphie in “Christmas Story” emoting about his Red Ryder BB gun. He should just flush the key to his trigger lock, to be totally safe from that evil gun. And who thought it was a good idea to arm him with a handgun to protect anyone?
Had a Daisy pump model 25 BB gun back in the 1950’S when I was a kid. I lived in Laurelton Queens NYC at the time. Great for plinking the small green apples in the back yard that I lined up on the ground.
I still have the one I had in the ’50s… still works, still as accurate as I am within its limits. Four grandsons trained on that gun and counting.
Maybe Metro will conduct a buy back program just for this special snowflake whom used to a an AG officer in the US Army and likely never carried a weapon either.
Fuck that guy.
I’m pretty sure you got more reasons to carry a gun than King, John. You have had a lot more threats. The narcissistic injury done to these phonies you’ve exposed won’t heal. They want revenge, but most of them are too wimpy.
Lily … his name is Jonn. Not John.
Oh I see it’s *Jonn, I think that’s the first time I’ve see it spelled that way.
That’s OK, most people spell lily with a capital L at the beginning.
(My granddaughter’s name, too.)
Dear Colbert,
If people can see your gun, it’s not concealed and you suck at your responsibility to keep it so.
Sincerely,
10-year CCW permit holder.
I bet this is the kind of idiot that did t even carry with a round in the chamber.
A regular Barney Fife.
He makes Barney Fife look like Chuck Norris.
>snerk<
He felt empowered with a pistol on his hip…yikes….if that’s what you need to feel like you have some power there’s something inherently wrong with your world view.
A tool doesn’t make you powerful, it can make you dangerous though to yourself and to a variety of others unfortunate enough to cross your path.
FWIW, Colbert I. King has just painted a great big “Rob Me, I’m Unarmed” sign on his forehead.
Really, why let anyone know you have a CHL/LTC, what your targets look like after a range session, or even if you own a gun?
(Although in Texas that’s pretty well a given outside of the Austin city limits.)
Keep the bad guys in the dark.