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“If they see you are armed, they might “get the drop on you”, so if you go for your gun, they will shoot you.”
Almost never happens. Far more commonly, they pick a different target.
“But if they don’t know you are armed, they likely *want* something from you, not to shoot you, but their attention is all over the place; whereas yours is simple: retrieve gun and shoot them.”
Sometime it happens that way, perhaps more often than not. I have also seen a number of instances where the person who is carrying concealed is attacked *because* the perpetrator thinks that they are unarmed.
Concealed carry and open carry both have their advantages and disadvantages. I use both when I think prudent to do so.
Certainly true.
A shooter in Oregon at a mall decided to give up and killed himself after seeing a person who had been carrying concealed draw on him. I think it likely that he would not have chosen the mall as his shooting ground if every other person had been carrying openly.
These cowards who shoot the unarmed may be willing to die but they seldom seem anxious to suffer grevious painful and debilitating wounds followed by decades of life in a wheelchair behind bars.