[TheForge] local codes OT

[Andrew Vida]

jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com wrote:
> The WV Air Guard C-130 wing won't go that low when
> doing NOE training.

	These the boys flying out of Charleston?

> Because of the area that I live in, the Sheriff has no problem with
> us country folk employing the Castle Doctrine. So I have my yard and
> garden area posted with warning signs I got from the NRA. Warning
> Firearms In Use.

	The sheriff isn't the one you need to worry about.  What is your local 
prosecutor like?  Being "in the hills" guarantees you nothing.  The 
Summers county prosecutor is smart and sane and nobody to worry about on 
the whole.  The prosecutor in Beckley, OTOH, is a liberal whore who will 
throw your ass into jail in a heartbeat.  I always have to be very 
conscious of my gun when I'm there because the cops have an attitude and 
there is a city ordinance against open carry.  If it is visible even in 
part, they will cart your ass to jail and charge you, even though the 
state law recognizes the right to openly carry without a permit. Even if 
you win in court, you will be tens of thousands of dollars in debt and 
you won't even get a kiss at the end of it all.

	If your prosecutor is some politically motivated prick, watch out - 
especially if they are against ideas such as defense of one's own life. 
  Ridiculous as it may seem, there are those who seem to truly believe 
that one has no right to defend themselves against death and injury, the 
implication being that one is obliged to consent to death at the hand 
and whim of anyone so deciding.