Hint to the innocent:
1/ Open carry identifies you as the first person to get popped by the evildoers if the sh*t hits the fan.
2/ If you decide you are gonna do it, take some training in weapon retention. Please.
3/ There are places where open carry is legal, but after the third do-gooder calls 911, you can be arrested for disturbing the peace. (Example: Boulder County, CO = open carry legal; “People’s Republic of Boulder” - the City = no worry about where to stay tonight.)
“1/ Open carry identifies you as the first person to get popped by the evildoers if the sh*t hits the fan.”
Yup. Sucks, but them’s the breaks. I kinda hope all states go open carry so I’ll be lower on the “list”.
“You may beat the rap, but you won’t beat the ride.”
The notion that the person who is openly carrying a gun is going to be the first one shot by a bad guy is the most incredible nonsense.
First of all, it has never happened...at least not in the last 100 years or so.
Second, if I’m in a store or somewhere with a .44 on my side, and some miscreant bent upon criminal behavior happens in and sees me, I’d say that there’s a 99% chance that that individual will immediately turn around and head for greener pastures...probably wetting his pants in the process. Besides, the first thing most people will think when they see someone openly carrying a pistol is “cop”.
I wonder who many opponents of open carry really think they are going to encounter? Who knows, a crack squad of former Spetznaz commandos... CIA hitmen... a team of “highly trained” Jihadists? No, it’s probably gonna be some 20 year old who can barely write his own name, itchin’ to score some cash for his next fix, with pants so baggy, he can hardly walk, and carrying a Jennings “nine” that he holds sideways.