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Topic: BT's utopia might exist in Pahrump Nevada!
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BT's utopia might exist in Pahrump Nevada!
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Apparently, in this small town you can openly carry your gun on your hip, including in public buildings and during hearings. They also are huge Ron Paul supporters! Is this seriously where BT lives? I know he lives out there in the desert somewhere.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/us/politics/pahrump-nev-wears-guns-and-ron-paul-support-on-its-hip.html?hp
PAHRUMP, Nev. — On rare occasions, when a brave — or foolish — local official here proposes banning firearms from government buildings or meetings, he is met with howls of protests by sidearm-wearing residents who pack public hearings. Shocked tourists on the way to Death Valley periodically call the local sheriff’s office to report someone wearing a pistol in plain view. That is their right, they are told.
This is a town — unincorporated, to be sure — where many folks have little need for much government, whether manifested by permits, stop signs, gun regulations or anything that would threaten Pahrump’s brothels. That goes for surrounding Nye County as well, which is more than twice the size of New Jersey but is home to only 44,000 residents, mostly in Pahrump.
This is the heart of Ron Paul country, the one county in Nevada that the 76-year-old congressman from Texas carried in the 2008 Republican caucuses, and a place that wears its libertarianism proudly.
It is also a place where many people come to be left alone. “There are a lot of people who hide in Pahrump,†said Carl England Jr., who, as pastor of a Baptist church here and also proprietor of a local septic business, knows a lot about his neighbors.
Many people here have owned guns — even some, like Jerry Neese, who are scared of them — not necessarily for concerns about safety but to make a statement about living in a free country. “People believe in the rights they have, and want to show they believe in them,†said Bonnie White, who owns Emmalee’s Guns and Emporium (named for her granddaughter) and sells 500 guns a year. “People will fight for their rights here.â€
Mr. Neese and his wife, Mary, liked their two .357 Magnums but had to sell them when they lost their business. Ms. Neese once shot a burglar as he came after Mr. Neese with a large screwdriver, and she fears her husband might otherwise have been killed.
Nevertheless, Mr. Neese says the love of firearms can go too far, especially allowing people to wear them out in the open just about anywhere. “That makes people nervous,†he said. “If I see someone with a gun on their hip, and I had a gun, it would make me want to put my hands on my gun.â€
Likewise, support for Mr. Paul is far from universal: he won 34 percent of the vote in Nye County the last time, barely edging out Mitt Romney, though there was some dispute over the final tally. But even among undecideds like Ms. White, Mr. Paul’s message about getting government out of people’s lives strikes a chord here as in few other places.
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they have a nice harvest festival in the fall for a small town
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