So your well thought out articulate response to my post is to call me a name? Dude.....
It wasn't well thought out or articulate, it was just me labeling your behavior, but not necessarily you. Perhaps you are confused and in a weak moment. So here's some food for thought.
Ask yourself this: would you cover up a tattoo around your friends without prompting on their behalf? Now think about this:
1. This action would be the result of you making assumptions about your friends
2. This action would also be the result of you assuming that your tattoo could be taken as offensive
3. This action also would be assuming that your friends would not accept you for who you are
All of these things are true to your actions of turtling with your 2nd amendment rights around your "friends." Before even asking them whether you carrying would be offensive to them, and subsequently sparking healthy conversation between people who you consider friends (as all friends should be able to do) you make assumptions that what you're doing is "bad," that it can be taken as offensive to your friends, and that they subsequently don't accept you as yourself as they are rejecting your desires/ideals.
Why not ask for permission to carry on their premises? Why not start a healthy conversation about it with them? At the very least you'll better learn their stance on the issue and their reasoning. At the very best, you'll initiate a long conversation where both participants listen to each other and learn a thing or two, because friends listen to each other. And you've stated that you believe them to be cut from that same cloth.
Now ask yourself this: are they really your friends? And why are you afraid of talking with them about these issues? Are they irreproachable?
Or are you a acting like a bitch and conforming to assumptions that you've made about your friends in order to fit in with them? Notice- I haven't called you one yet. I've only referenced your actions as likable to that of one, dude.