[camle]

be thankful for that person carrying the gun in public - you may need to hide behind him/her.
and with the crazies running around these days, the children’s section is a prime candidate.
rather than a knee jerk fear reaction, you should feel consoled that protection is on hand should, heaven forbid, it be needed.

[Steely Tom]

It sure is normal in Israel.

I'll be it's normal here in a few years. If islam keeps spreading in America.

[Flying right]

I worked for a gun manufacturer for three years. Almost every person was armed. They are good people, and I feel safer in my community because I know when they are in Wal-Mart, they are carrying.
Everyone should have the opportunity to spend some time on the range and get comfortable with the sight and feel of a good firearm. Maybe they wouldn’t be so freaked out by a gun.
People are uncomfortable with guns because they don’t know anything about them or the vast majority of responsible people who carry them.

[Vaquero]

I am not a fan of open carry...except in the woods, the range etc.

.... I think concealed carry is the way to go...open carry tends to have the look and feel of ‘brandishing’ and can be taken by some as threatening or by others as a spoiling for a fight...

That being said....I do not think the Govt. has the right to tell me how or where I should carry....

.....nor should the govt., license me to do so....I am licensed by the Constitution of the US...that should be enough...(not being willing to go to jail for my beliefs, at this time, I DO carry concealed under state license...)

[WayneS]

You, Mr. Cramer do not appear to me to be a person who has "spent much of the last twenty-five years defending the right to keep and bear arms" to me.

I would hope that open carry in cities would be infrequent because it is so disquieting...

Really? In that case Mr. Cramer, do you also "hope” that openly exercising free speech in cities would be "infrequent" because it is so "disquieting" to those who disagree with what is being said?

Or, Please: spend the relatively modest amount of money and time required to obtain a concealed handgun license now...

You do realize, do you not, you self-proclaimed long-time defender of the RIGHT to keep and bear arms, that condescendingly calling on everyone to register themselves with the government and submit to a licensing process in order that they may be 'permitted' to exercise a RIGHT shows anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together that you are, in fact, NOT a defender of the RIGHT to keep and bear arms. I have to ask you, sir, is there some part of “Shall Not Be Infringed” that you do not understand?

[thulldud]

Guns are powerful symbols — and even those of us who are strongly pro-gun, and support widespread gun ownership and carrying, respond negatively to unnecessary displays.

They are that, mainly because of the influence of fictional representations in the media.

We aren't above practicing idolatry in our age, just because we don't usually engrave the images of our gods in stone like the Romans did. We do it in movies and TV, and hire otherwise ordinary people to portray their images on screen. A number of these "gods" include guns as a symbol of their power.

Last night, while waiting for a prescription refill at the pharmacy, I happened to notice one of those carousel displays with bargain DVD's on it. I should have brought my camera: three of the DVD covers (different movies) had a man in the exact same pose, holding a gun out at arm's length, aimed off to the right out of the frame.

Coincidence? No, it's iconography. It's worship.

Given such conditions, I'm more surprised to find as much rational thinking about guns as there is. Range time helps with that, of course, which is why leftists are such immoderate gushers of emotional nonsense about them.

[JimRed]

If a police officer in uniform walked in, no one would think twice about his firearm or feel threatened. The same should apply to any open-carrying citizen, but the only way that will happpen is through advocacy that drowns out the anti-gunners’ lies.

[Batrachian]

You have to ask yourself, if legal open carry is a problem, then who is to blame? Those who exercise their rights under law, or those who's sensibilities are offended by it. There may be times and places where openly carrying guns is not entirely appropriate, but the issue is the legal right to do so, not whether it's good manners or not. The left never worried about offending anyone when they exercised their 1st Amendment rights, and they certainly didn't seek a license from the government to do so. We need to keep pushing until the 2nd Amendment is indeed, as the author mentions, normalized.

[Ratman83]

Mr. Cramer until you realize that if you allowed the government to place the same restrictions on the first amendment, that you feel are ok for the second then you would realize that you could not voice your opinion on this or any other matter without the governments permission. Get a life and pull your head out of your butt.

[JimRed]

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I copied this from the link for the PPK. At that price, I’ll take ten, please!

After reading it again, it just dawned on me; that’s just the magazine! I first thought it was for the gun, and obviously incorrect.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Cramer wouldn’t have liked Rosa Parks, either.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What part of “Gun Control” don’t you understand? Either you have open carry or you dont’. What is an unecessary display for you may be every day normal for others. You can’t have just a little bit of gun control.

Wait a couple of years until things devolve to the point whre we are all carrying weapons everywhere so somebody doesn’t kill us for the bottle of water in our hand. Open carry will look pretty necessary then.

[Atlas Sneezed]

He’s having a Zumbo moment.

[ctdonath2]

One carries a handgun for mundane self defense.
One carries a long gun when one knows it will be needed.
Ergo, if you see someone carrying a long gun in an otherwise normally safe situation, you assume he knows something you don’t and leave before you find out the hard way.

[Grizzled Bear]

What ticks me off about some manifestations of the open carry movement, however, is the second goal: the delusion of “normalizing” open carry.

Clearly, Cramer is "cartridgaphobic." I bet he really needs to "come out" of the "gun cabinet."

[Dayman]

OC is more important to the second amendment than concealed carry and is a greater deterrent to crime. OC without the need of a license is an exercise of freedom; begging the government and paying a fee for a right is disgraceful and should be resisted by any means possible.

I've OC'd almost anywhere and am not going to stop because some hoplophobe doesn't understand what freedom is. I's not illegal or even probable cause to ask someone for ID and it's a normal activity that thousands of police officers engage in every single day.