ACE wrote:
As I said, I think you should have the right to own guns, weapons etc and I dont' even care if the state allows you to get a CHL and carry them where people can't see them. But I don't want to walk around a city street where everyone has s weapon brandished and ready to draw down.
I, too, have been around firearms my whole life, especially from when I was in the military for a couple decades, and I honestly don't have a problem with open carry (and boy, go through our local Walmart and you'll think you've been transported back to Dodge City ;-).
I don't do it, however, and that's mostly because I think it's tactically foolish to basically place a neon sign over your head telling the bad guys that you're the one with the firepower and to please sneak up behind you and shoot you first or knock you out and take your weapon from you. It takes away the element of surprise, and if everyone open-carried it would seem to me that the ones wanting to do harm will either mark the open carriers first or will just simply walk in and begin "praying and spraying" in order to get the drop on the armed folks.
Eh, what do I know, though? There are probably several good arguments for why open carry should be mandatory.
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