I just got back from the store and had a gun owner epiphany.

I'm walking back from the Asian market right, just got my delicious kimchi instant ramen and I see a guy in a "fuck Biden" t shirt with a magpul backpack and a bulge.<br><br>Now, I'm a gun owner, and that was my first instinct, to identify this as a gun. I'm not scared, I don't reach for my own gun (I'm in Canada and you can't concealed carry here).<br><br>But what is the social protocol here? I don't talk to the guy. I avoid him. I think "what the fuck is that dude doing walking around like that?"<br><br>And that's the problem. Imagine if we were in Texas. If gun owners were treated the same as smokers.<br><br>You wanna smoke? You go outside, you do your thang, but I don't have to be sitting next to you, or even breathing your air. You can smoke and no one will bat an eye. <br><br>That's what we need. But currently, we're seen more like a mental health crisis on the verge of suicide or something.<br><br>For me as a gun owner, I don't want to see you walking down the street, strapped to the teeth.<br><br>I don't want to be seen that way.