Open Carry: What are your thoughts?

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IMHO OC is for the woods, mountains, fields and streams. Not the city or public places.

ETA: It's also great if your shirt rides up, or it ain't quite loose enough to really hide that Blackhawk. :D
 
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its not "the best that i have" i just happened to run accross this on the seecamp forum and posted it. im not trying to prove you are right or wrong. dont be so defensive.
 
I don't like it. It can make someone who has a chip on his shoulder get a "cowboy complex" or some other macho disorder and look for trouble when there is none.

It can also cause alarm and distress to the public at large, which should not be something the public has to endure.
 
Here's a good read off another forum, that reiterates a few of my points more eloquently and adds a few more. http://http://www.usacarry.com/forums/open-carry-discussion/7230-open-carry-argument.html

However, I'm not saying that everyone has to open carry or even has to like it. It's just a bit discouraging hearing those who would argue for their right to CC turn around and say that people shouldn't OC simply because they "don't like it." That's not the way a right works, folks.
 
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But don't say it's for my benefit and you're fighting for my rights. Just makes you look like the proverbial "gun nut" that everyone is unjustifiably afraid of. This ain't the wild west and Wyatt Earp is dead. Cover it up.
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There are many people in many communities who will not 'bat and eye' to a man who OCs like he has been doing it for decades while they get a little finnicky to say the least w/regards to the dude who can't properly CCW
 
"Frankly, this hysterical claim holds no more validity than when the Brady crowd claimed there would be blood in the streets if citizens were able to carry guns."

What are you babbling about? Hysterical? Just because someone disagrees with you? Then you compare 'em to the Brady crowd? You've lost my respect as a debater. You don't have facts, so you name call. That won't fly. Sorry.

John
 
Point conceded on the earlier history of gun control, however, the point I was seeking to make is that openly carried weapons are not some upstart new trend in the gun community, like some have led to believe. Your links don't change that.

What are you babbling about? Hysterical? Just because someone disagrees with you? Then you compare 'em to the Brady crowd? You've lost my respect as a debater. You don't have facts, so you name call. That won't fly. Sorry.
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With respect to the above quote, I'm sorry if you read it that way, but you've misinterpreted me completely (and I couldn't care less, frankly, about earning the "respect" of a stranger on the Internet) My point, again, was that unfounded accusations against gun owners are still exactly that; unfounded, unless there's support to back them up. It remains that the many "dangers" of OC that people claim have no more proof to back them than many of the anti-gun Brady arguments. I even stated at the end of that same post that people aren't wrong for holding a differing opinion from mine. Please read the post in its entirety before flying off the handle. ;)
 
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A right not exercised is a right lost.
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Yet another slogan I always hear. Can you tell me when this has ever been the case?
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It's the case in every case. If I have the "right" to do something, but don't for whatever reason, what good does it do me to have the right?

I open carry from time to time. Depends a lot of times on rather I'm too lazy to pull my shirt-tail down over the gun. Does anybody notice? I don't know. I've never seen the line at 7-11 get any shorter when I'm in a hurry to get my coffee and get back on the road. They still stand there playing ennie, mennie, minney, moe at the lottery ticket counter. If anyone ever called the cops, they took their time getting there, and I was long gone.
 
"It remains that the many "dangers" of OC that people claim have no more proof to back them"

Now that's funny, you accusing somebody of having no proof when you keep coming up short on facts and proof.

I'm not flying off the handle as you put it. No one here has ever seen me fly off the handle - and I can, my momma was a Scots-Irish redhead. I learned how from one of the best.

I maintain, as I posted earlier, the primary danger of carrying a gun in full view is being robbed. Some people will steal anything. Maybe you don't have junkies where you live.

John
 
I maintain, as I posted earlier, the primary danger of carrying a gun in full view is being robbed. Some people will steal anything. Maybe you don't have junkies where you live.
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That's exactly the proof I'm asking for. If there's such a danger of being robbed because you're OC, prove to me that it's a common, or even an UNCOMMON occurence for a law abiding citizen to be targetted because they ARE carrying a gun. Until you can show some trending to back up that baseless accusation, it's just hysterics. I apologize, but if you're so keen on "debate" as you claim to be, you should know better.

I won't hold my breath.
 
"That's exactly the proof I'm asking for. If there's such a danger of being robbed because you're OC, prove to me that it's a common, or even an UNCOMMON occurence for a law abiding citizen to be targetted because they ARE carrying a gun. Until you can show some trending to back up that baseless accusation, it's just hysterics. I apologize, but if you're so keen on "debate" as you claim to be, you should know better."

You're like a small child with your silly demands. "Show me, show me, show me."

Look at the thread title: "What are your thoughts"

I have posted my thoughts. People do rob people they see wearing valuable items. What part of that do you dispute?
 
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