Will,
I appreciate your thoughts. If you read this thread you will see that I did, indeed, thank folks for their good advice and indicated that I would take the gun to the police. That was on the first page of this thread. Advice was offered, advice was taken, thanks was given. Review the thread and you will see my thanks posted to nearly all meaningful and serious replies.
I fully agree that the measure of a man is how he interacts with those around him, both in person and yes even on Internet forums. I'd invite you to opine on the various folks who replied to this thread: several encouraged keeping the gun (a crime), others suggested leaving it, perhaps to be found by some one lacking in firearms knowledge, maybe a child. Others engaged in unfounded accusations, assumptions and fear mongering, one person going so far as to compare finding a gun with corpse. Lastly, and to the member who I addressed my "ill-mannered" reply -- I was called a liar.
I'd say, given the overall tone of this thread, my responses have been quite measured, patient, and polite.
Best,
DJM
DJM,
A fair response and I did read the full thread. Some of the post were less than right but keeping your cool at all times is important. It's just the internet. My post was prompted by your education and income statement. While you wanted to show your not some jug head you generized the members of this forum as less educated and earning far less than you. I understand that was a defensives response to some of the post. It got my attention simply because many anti gun people try to paint gun owners as under educated and in the lower income bracket. That is so far from the truth. When I read a fellow gun owner expressing this I take exception.
Over all a good thread and I expect we all learned what to do if you find a firearm in a parking lot.