They could be, if someone decides some asshole walking into McDonalds with an AR is an active shooter and starts a shoot-out. Can you blame them for thinking that? People concealed carry because they want to protect themselves and others. There's zero reason to advertise that you have a gun, and there's zero reason to walk around in public with an AR causing a disturbance. I'm as pro-gun as they come, but open carry is for idiots and only causes problems. Concealed carry or leave it in your vehicle for when you need it (hunting, target shooting, etc.). Otherwise leave it at home. There's no reason to walk around with that shit.
I'm much more of an advocate of open carry than conceal. It gives you a visual clue of who to steer clear of.
I do wonder, in open carry states, whether businesses are allowed to deny entry to armed patrons
It's always been my impression about open carry too. Wanting a gun for self-defense is a sentiment I understand even if I don't share it, but waving the thing around telling yourself you're tough? It's really a bit pathetic to be honest. Like you're trying so very hard to convince yourself people should respect you.
I'm pretty sure that someone who actually respects what a gun is (IE an instrument for killing) usually wouldn't flex it like it was an extension of their penis. They know it's dangerous, they don't have it flash it. Difference between a guy who just has a well toned body, and another who insists on going around shirtless all the time so people can look at his pecs. At this point you're just being a douchebag fishing for attention.
Somehow I picture the people practicing open carry just for the kicks as the same people who think that there's ISIS training camps in every liberal US state, that vaccines give your kids autism, that the government is coming for their guns and freedoms and that all Mexicans are illegal immigrants on a blood hunt for their jobs.
From what I've seen in documentaries, news reports and privately recorded video that stereotype seems to be spot on.
I think that a society which suffers from as many gun deaths as america should think about their gun policies.
I dont think that anyone who loves guns is a bad guy only because of that. I just believe there should be additional control to ensure less bad guys are able to get guns.
As like allowing guns only in sport clubs, military and police, and not at home or on the streets.
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To be very blunt, I would trust ratherjn the extremely unlikely case that I will ever face armed criminals trained professionals (called ''cops'') over someone who think terrorists might attack the Walmart and who sees the world like a five years old (''bad guyz'' vs ''good guyz'') and whose connection to reality is presumably tenuous.
Well, I've never seen an open carry handgun, ever. But I have seen people with rifles over their backs at gun shows. Never on the street. The most guns I've ever seen in public were when the Dallas police had that shoot out with the crazy guy next to El Cnetro college in downtown Dallas last year or the year before.
Open carry is cool and all, but no one is actually doing it. No one wants to carry around a 9mm all day. Its heavy and cumbersome.
The bolded part above is contradictory. Assuming open carry is legal in their state, if the officers know the law then they know they cannot detain these people unless they have a reasonable suspicion that they have don't something wrong. Open carry is not enough to meet that burden. This is actually an issue that the Supreme Court has ruled on.
I'm not necessarily supporting these guys that are doing the same kind of "look at me" crap the the leftist protesters that they complain about do, but I do support their right to do so and to not be hassled by police officers that either do not know the law or don't care about it.
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I carry a .40 around all day and that is a larger round the 9mm. Occasionally I carry my .45 which after a long day feels like carrying a bowling ball.
Even in conceal carry states, businesses are allowed to post no firearms allowed. Some states have very distinct signage required, but I don't know of any states that prevent private property owners from prohibiting firearms on their property.
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For a lot of people - particularly in areas like mine in New Mexico - open carry is pretty much a way of life. There are a lot of ranchers (and ranch hands), farmers (and farm hands), and people that recreate in the wilds where they can come into contact with anything from rattlesnakes to coyotes to elk to bears and even mountain lions. Just last week the local hospital sent out a memo to all employees to be alert when leaving the building at night time as a mountain lion had been spotted in the parking lot.
Surprises me that America doesn't like Kim Jung-On, seeing as how you share so many hobbies, such as waving your weapons around just for shows.
Also I wonder what kind of repercussion would this movement have if some American Islamists would decide to adhere to it.
I'd like to bring back open carry for swords.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance