[Slehn]

My point is that California is wrong and concealed carry is preferrable and more effective than open.

I actually find open carry to be weird. It’s got to be extremely unnerving for many, many people and creates an odd dynamic, in my opinion. Concealed carry is preferable because ignorance on the part of those who would be unnerved is bliss. Why make them crazy and even more anti-gun than they might already be?

I don’t know what the stats indicate but intuitively, it makes perfect sense that criminals will be on their heels when the possibility exists that would be victims may, in fact, have the ability to defend themselves. In California or any other open carry state, no sidearm = easy target.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I actually find open carry to be weird. It’s got to be extremely unnerving for many, many people and creates an odd dynamic, in my opinion. Concealed carry is preferable because ignorance on the part of those who would be unnerved is bliss. Why make them crazy and even more anti-gun than they might already be?"

The whole point of the open carry movement is to inoculate the "nervous Nellies" so as to have them NOT see someone openly carrying a gun as "scary".

Criminals carry concealed.

[I Buried My Guns]

I approve of people being unnerved. Those people are ignorant liberals who live in a fantasy world. To see a gun in public, carried by a law-abiding citizen, is a slap in the face to them. A slap from reality, that is.

An odd dynamic? No doubt. But liberals will get used to it. We must not let them set the agenda for our lives any longer, as they view the world as a child would.

[Carry_Okie]

My point is that California is wrong and concealed carry is preferrable and more effective than open.

When I'm working out in the woods with wild pigs, mountain lions, and coyotes around, open carry is the way to go. Unfortunately, when I get to the county road to walk home, it does tend to spook the urban transplants.