I didn’t miss the point. He spent most of the article being just fine with it, then at the very end he compromises and says to the people that don’t like open carry, he says “well personally I think it’s obnoxious too, but they can do it.”
He’s trying to have it both ways by sympathizing with people who don’t want open carry by buddying up to them and saying, look I think it’s obnoxious too. He’s a pussy and a hypocrite, and he just showed what he really feels about people who open carry. And he also sets himself up to be the judge as to when open carry is, or is not, obnoxious. He gets to set the rules of what is obnoxious or not, because he certainly doesn’t allow the person carrying to do so.
You know, you ought to realize that you never know when a threat is going to come upon you. You said you carry 100% of the time off your property. Isn’t that kind of paranoid and irrational? 100% of the time? You’re concerned 100% of the time something could happen to you? If you are carrying 100% of the time, you are certainly carrying your gun at times when somebody, somewhere, could point to and say there is no need for you to be carrying your weapon.
But you are the one who has to make the determination if you need it or not. you allow yourself to carry all the time, and you have decided that for you, it is NOT OBNOXIOUS, or IRRATIONAL, or PARANOID that you carry your gun 100% of the time you’re off your property.
You sir, are a massive hypocrite. The only difference is that this man HAS to carry openly because otherwise he would be breaking the law carrying concealed, and he does not want to break the law.
I carry 100% of the time because it’s just easier to keep track of where my gun is, and not worry about whether I forgot it when going somewhere that it makes sense to have it. I’m not a “sir”, I’m a ma’am, and my gun lives in my shoulder bag just like my wallet. And I think it makes good sense to carry regularly, since any place you’re going “in public” is somewhere that criminals can go too. But if I was mowing my lawn, my gun would be right inside and easy to fetch in the unlikely event the need arose. I don’t know the details of Wisconsin law, but I’d be surprised if it’s illegal to carry concealed while on your own property (at least residential property, that’s not open to use by the general public). For the grocery store example, there’s a decent argument for open carrying as long as the concealed carry prohibition is in effect.