“When I moved to Az in 2000 just about everyone open carried and it was not alarming to anyone at all. Everyone was used to the fact it was just part of the culture...”
I don’t dispute that, but I will say that if they all showed up in the suburbs of say, Cleveland, where the white Soccer Moms send their kids to the ‘Wonderful Public Schools’, those people might get a different reception. Lose that vote, and it’s over for us.
Again, we don’t have to get votes, the guys in DC do...and I just can’t see us winning by saying that solution is more guns, everywhere...since so many people see the guns as the problem, not the shooters.
There is a funny thing that happens when everyone is doing it no matter where or what it is, It tends to just become “normal”. While it might cause a stir at first, over a very short time it will become normal.
The best chances you have to turn away and run off a wild animal is to make yourself as big as possible and growl louder than they do without showing fear. The current anti-gun sentiment is the wild animal challenging us. :)