Posted on 06/05/2013 11:46:33 AM PDT by Sopater
I’d feel very comfortable with others open carrying, but I’ll continue to conceal carry. Concealed carry has a tactical advantage.
I’m only unsafe in a gun free zone, I believe I’m more safe and comfortable where firearms are carried, open or concealed. While I believe there are proper places for open carry and primarily to protect the rights of those who are working or participating in outdoor activities and put on or take off a coat that may expose or conceal a fire arm. I’m not really a proponet of open carry and I prefer to carry concealed. I believe open carry can make someone a target in certain sitituations, ambush the person with the gun first. It’s possible though that someone shooting the open carry person first would give me warning and time to draw and fix on the target.
Robert Heinlein said, “An armed society is a polite society”, I thought it was a brilliant comment that should be obvious the first time I read it as a teenager and still do. That said I’m not sure I would open carry if it was legal until it was common. I will, however, continue to conceal carry my Kahr PM9 or Glock G23.
I recommend altering.
of course, remain lawful.
No. Don’t spend much time in bars.
SnakeDoc
My feeling exactly...I’m happy to carry concealed.
I love to go in for the conversation and video.
Funny thing there -- NM has you beat, their only exceptions are federal buildings (including the USPS). Though there are statutes that prohibit firearms on schools/universities, and the city and county courthouses post signs prohibiting it, they are nullity because the Constitution explicitly forbids those "laws".
oh forgot to mention ... This is only a drill. If an actual emergency had been declared there would have been a signal sent.
forget it .... signal send in triplicate.
I agree with you. Plus, you open carry, you are the first one the bad guy takes out.
In SW Virginia I carry every day, sometimes concealed sometimes open...but then so do my neighbors and there’s very little crime in our area.
Since any restrictions on ownership or carrying of arms violate the second amendment, to be armed is to be lawful.
Amen Jim!
Personally, I think concealed carry is smarter. Carrying openly is like walking down the street while talking on your cell-phone. Are you physically capable of retaining it, if some bad guy tries to wrest it from you?
The safest store in the state is ACE Sporting in Washington, PA where almost every customer and employee is open carrying.
It looks like the old West, but everyone respects the law and a thief would never even think of any "job" in that place.
I buy most of my gun "stuff" there and always have my 357 Magnum and a 9mm to balance me out when I go there.
If someone wants to commit a violent crime, is the person more likely to try to target people who are openly carrying, or wait quietly for them to leave? Some criminals will adopt the former tactic, but generally only in cases where the people who are carrying openly (e.g. security guards) aren't likely to leave. I would posit that carrying concealed makes it more likely that a criminal will commence an attack in one's presence. Having the criminal attempt his attack when there's an armed person present to stop him is less bad than having the criminal successfully time his attack so as to avoid resistance. On the other hand, having the criminal never attempt his attack could be better yet.
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