So leave the long-gun at home and walk downtown, to the supermarket, to the movies, past a school, with an easilly seen holstered handgun and watch the reaction.
Tell me how much extra respect for your positions and thought process you generate, vs the openly displayed fear, disdain and panic... and 911 calls.
If somehow you think voters at home watching the convention on TV will be better impressed with attendees, delegates, spectators because they are “only” openly carrying handguns in pretty holsters, then I rest my case about the lack of common sense on this issue.
I have done it often. No problem. I was stopped a decade or more ago. The officers and I agreed that it was probably a visiting Canadian “winter visitor” that called it in.
I have done it often. No problem. I was stopped a decade or more ago. The officers and I agreed that it was probably a visiting Canadian “winter visitor” that called it in.
Most people do not even notice. Those that do, more often than not, approve.
You will be hard pressed to get 5% to open carry, if you push. Enough to make the point, and that is about it.