People are people all over. If you irritate or scare enough of them they will do whatever it takes to end their fears.
Besides that fact, the political climate in NH is changing with the liberals moving up from Boston. They're looking for a nice quiet, safe, happy place live in and retire to. Poking them with a stick by carrying in the open might be an entertaining thing to do. But like poking a rattle snake here in AZ, it does no positive good and will eventually get you bit.
But pretending that there are no rattlesnakes gets you bit too, as was the case in Ohio where the right to armed self-defense in the Constitution languished unused for decades. And when you finally do wind up stepping too close to the rattlesnake, without even a stick in your hand, and then complain about getting bit, people line up behind the rattlesnakes and say they should have snapped your elbow too, for good measure.
Only a mentally-ill person would be put into a state of mortal dread seeing someone walking down the street, minding his or her own business, with a holstered sidearm. And the accepted way to deal with the illness of phobia or anxiety disorders in the psychological community is through acclimation.
It's not about "entertainment," it's about a vital struggle for the preservation of the fundamental human right to armed self-defense, which as you know is under siege from every direction around the nation, including from police officers who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution.