[Magdalen] weird Southern culture

[Charles Wohlers]

I believe Ms. Michaud was talking about guns in Florida, not Massachusetts.

Handguns are legal in Mass., but one must obtain a a license from one's 
local (Mass.) constabulary. Folks from out-of-state obviously don't have a 
Mass. license and so shouldn't be bringing in handguns. IIRC.

VT has somewhat looser gun laws - lots of hunting here - but nothing like 
those in most Southern states.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynn Ronkainen
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2018 10:39 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] weird Southern culture

Has MA eased their gun laws?
I remember when living in Syracuse and driving to MA the Circle/slash = NO 
signs with a handgun in them were posted at the state line on I 90. Of 
course that was 30 years ago... still can’t wrap my head around having lived 
in TX that long...
Lynn

On Jan 20, 2018, at 7:30 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

North Florida is a little like Maine. The wealthy non-locals live along the
coast, while the poorer locals live inland. There’s an invisible but very
real wall somewhere. Like the neighborhoods in Boston, although I can see
those invisible walls, having lived among them and crossed back&forth for
so long.

But two things I notice about the white locals: lots of them smoke. And
lots of them carry guns (if all those NRA stickers are to be taken
seriously). It actually seems to be a class thing. Firearms are expensive.
Very strange to me, very alien.
-M