Hello there. I arrived here starting with reading
sv_libertarian's blog on Olyblog.net, and followed the links from there. I'm an immigrant, originally from Holland, but I came over five years ago, got naturalized last September, and I've taken so much to the Northwest that I don't think I'll ever want to live anywhere else.
Let me come out of closet politically right now: I am, for all intents and purposes, a liberal. That is to say, I'm socially liberal, I support some measure of government intervention in economic and environmental matters, and I
used to be a gun control advocate. That last one is, however, no longer the case. The watershed, I think, was the verdict in
Castle Rock, CO v Gonzales; the fact that Castle Rock PD was in no way censured for sitting on their hands while three kidnapped girls were murdered was a shock to me, and that was when I decided that a government that refuses to take any responsibility for the safety of its citizens has no right to deny them the means to protect themselves. Then my wife and I had our first kid, and the protective instinct really kicked in. I applied for a CPL the day after I was naturalized.
I don't know that open carry is something I'd want to do myself, but I fully support the right of those who do want it to do it.
Aside from that, I'm a stay-at-home dad, part-time student, I occasionally do theatrical stuff (right now I'm stage-managing a musical in Burien) and I volunteer as a tour guide at Wolf Haven in Tenino.
