You seem confused between what constitutes open carry versus assault or disturbing the peace. I'm really glad you're not a cop, no cop could be that stupid, they'd be fired in short order. Please don't ever join the police force, even as a volunteer -- come to think of it, especially as a volunteer.
I’ve lived in areas among idiots with your exact mantra.... insist on celebrating New Year & 4th of July by indiscriminately firing into the air. Innocent people have been killed.....staging protests or provoking & getting in disputes with other shoppers, requiring their employees to intervene....
Speaking of grossly unfair generalities, now open-carry patriots are the moral equivalent of Kate Steinle's killer? Don't worry, the people you are afraid of offending, sanctuary city dwellers, are okay with it as long as you can prove you're an illegal alien with a felony record.
Bottom line is, Walmart is not the government, it’s a business & has a right to enact policies aimed at maintaining a drama-free shopping experience
"Drama-free" will eventually mean no weapons of any kind, because snowflakes might insist they can't enter a store that doesn't guarantee nobody is carrying a firearm (open or concealed). It's called a slippery slope, and you're sliding down it, because you are willing to allow others to infringe on, and therefore compromise, your Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
You seem unable to differentiate between the government and a retail store, between constitutional rights and store policy.
Most of all, you seem unable to distinguish whose side I’m on. Im nobody’s woke snowflake — from where I stand, that looks more like you, you’re as emotional as Trigglipuff— at no time have I expressed any support for anyone opposed to the 2nd Amendment, nor do I have any desire to erode it.
You seem intent on reciting lofty principles— and I applaud that in you & support those same principles— but my focus is on how to solidly *apply* those principles in real world, everyday situations.
Street smarts carry you farther than speechifying, friend.
Walmart’s *store policy* in fact *protects* your 2A right to carry *while* protecting you from harassment from the very hysterics you yourself despise, yet seem so determined to engage.
By the same token, neither would I screech that my 1st Amendment rights are violated by a prohibition on covering my face with a mask. I’m rational enough to understand that *store policy* has reasoning behind it: a guy who walks in wearing a mask (robber? Halloween fun? Antifa looking to beat people up?) WILL be looked at askance; the store WILL want to limit its liability.
“Drama free will eventually mean no weapons of any kind.”
In fact, your need for drama & insistence on escalating it will eventually result in no weapons— in much the same way mass shooters generate the drama, the hysteria that feeds the left’s agenda & enables their demands.
Open carry enables hysterics to question your motives, it encourages them to accuse you of being a potential mass shooter, & essentially amounts to feeding the trolls.
Concealed carry is just a practical avoidandance & preventative of all that drama.
Your insistence that “drama free” IOW calm— is somehow a bad thing, is just weird.
And btw, wrt practicality, the point has been made MANY times, when you open carry, the Mass Shooter guy is gonna see you—and shoot you— first.
But hey, you be you.