[Fred911]

I think open carry is just dumb.....why give up the element of surprise?
Also, I know that open carry can upset some people. I can understand why a mom picking up a quart of milk at the dairy case, with her baby in the cart, might become flustered at the sight of a cocked and locked 1911 riding on somebody’s hip. I have no interest in frightening people.

[cuban leaf]

Exactly. There is the real world in which we have to live. If we’re living in a war zone, sure, open carry. But I don’t want our streets looking like the streets in the movie “Black Hawk Down”.

I like to think we are a bit more civilized than that.

[Magnum44]

I can understand why a mom picking up a quart of milk at the dairy case, with her baby in the cart, might become flustered at the sight of a cocked and locked 1911 riding on somebody’s hip.

Its about educating what has become an uneducated public wrt guns and safe gun handling. That mom wouldn't know cocked and locked from any other state of the gun, but she should be educated on the fact that a holstered gun is not a threat. I do agree that given the uneducated state of our society, CC is a better option in very public settings.