Me too here in Michigan.
I was ripped a while back from one of your state homies when I said I wasn't about to openly carry just to prove that I had the right to do so..........
Carry open and one will be noticed.
But someone has to be the pioneer and there are folks out there who do carry to be “instructional”.
Saw a guy in the licences bureau open carrying and nobody freaked nor did I notice any strange reactions amongst the couple hundred people in the place (outside Philadelphia).
And those boys down in Virginia are taking some hits but the government there is being educated.
There's a mind set among certain gun “lovers” that I don't have. I don't want people to know that I carry, I'm not a show off.