As to the tactical "advantage," it goes both ways. If you pay much attention to use of force reports, for every incident where an open carrier was targeted so as to "take him out first," you can probably find between two and five incidents in which would-be [suspected] robbers simply turned around and walked away when they saw a guy wearing a gun standing inside a convenience store.
To declare something goes both ways, and support that declaration with something you believe to be probably true two-to-five-times-as-often some supporting studies and/or evidence may be helpful.
I've seen a guy at the mall who was either concealed or open carrying in a careless manner obviously if I couldn't tell which way he was carrying. I didn't assume he was a LEO, but I wouldn't have been surprised if told he was.
When I see a firearm I track it. Even a uniformed LEO who is "open carrying" is tracked. I don't get alarmed, but I watch them. (The firearms.)
There are more than enough videos, news stories, and so on, to demonstrate even in places it's legal, open carry can and has lead to tense situations.
Not always are these situations right, and the city/state government has paid for it.
Even if every citizen of Arizona is OK with Open Carry (which simple logic says they probably aren't-) One out-of-stater putting through a panicked 911 call can cause more than enough problem to keep the issue in mind when making your decisions.
Open carry is neither good nor bad in and of itself, and it's not good or bad in comparison to concealed carry.
To declare something goes both ways, and support that declaration with something you believe to be probably true two-to-five-times-as-often some supporting studies and/or evidence may be helpful.
I've seen a guy at the mall who was either concealed or open carrying in a careless manner obviously if I couldn't tell which way he was carrying. I didn't assume he was a LEO, but I wouldn't have been surprised if told he was.
When I see a firearm I track it. Even a uniformed LEO who is "open carrying" is tracked. I don't get alarmed, but I watch them. (The firearms.)
There are more than enough videos, news stories, and so on, to demonstrate even in places it's legal, open carry can and has lead to tense situations.
Not always are these situations right, and the city/state government has paid for it.
Even if every citizen of Arizona is OK with Open Carry (which simple logic says they probably aren't-) One out-of-stater putting through a panicked 911 call can cause more than enough problem to keep the issue in mind when making your decisions.
Open carry is neither good nor bad in and of itself, and it's not good or bad in comparison to concealed carry.