Tempest In A Teapot

There's a product that's raised the ire and delight of several folks.

The Pew Pew Holster.

It's a box you bolt to the inside of a shitter to keep your gun off the floor.

The downsides to the concept are additional administrative handling increases the chance for negligent discharges and likelihood that someone forgets their gun in the stall.

The upside is the gun isn't laying on the floor by your feet, visible to all under the door and perhaps more in reach of an outsider than you.  It also keeps the weight of the gun dragging your gun, belt and waistband down to the potentially very nasty floor.

Here in Florida, that kind of exposure under the door could be construed to be open carrying, there's no exception for laying brown trout as there is for catching rainbow trout.

I love this thing for a reason I have not seen mentioned yet.

If this thing is in every stall that means we've got the battle all but won.  It's a statement that the people packing are everywhere and worth providing special considerations for.  Especially if the business is willing to invest $50 to $75 per stall for us.

Products like this are an indication we're winning the culture war, not losing it.

Stamping our hooves and being assholes about condemning ideas like this are why we never get anywhere in the legislative environment, we're too willing to prefragment.

The bitter irony is the people who are most apt to demand that everyone spend thousands on training don't see that the solution to accidental discharges and forgetting your gun in the stall stemming from this device is, in fact, training.

I often wonder if they think that owning and carrying a gun is some sort of hair-shirt which makes them more penitent than the person who seeks convenience and comfort as well as protection.