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> Never understood “open carry”. Why would you want to? <

I agree with you. The open-carry argument is that some bad guy will see your gun, and then change his mind on doing the crime. I have my doubts about that. I don’t think a criminal rushing into a convenience store would take the time to examine every customer there.

But here’s what I can envision. An open-carry guy is in line at a convenience store. He’s focused on paying is bill. A nearby bum/tweeker sees the gun. Grab and run.

“A nearby bum/tweeker sees the gun. Grab and run.”

Please allow me to correct your comment: “A nearby bum/tweeker sees the gun. Grabs the gun, shoots you in the back, robs the store, runs.”

But here’s what I can envision. An open-carry guy is in line at a convenience store. He’s focused on paying is bill. A nearby bum/tweeker sees the gun. Grab and run.

See my post above, #102 for a longer list response to faucetman's post. But to add on to that with your scenario. First, if you're open carrying you need to be aware of your surroundings. You should have good situational awareness anyway, but anytime you carry (open or not), you should be paying attention and be ready for something like that to happen.
Secondly, unless you're an idiot who watches too many Hollywood action movies, you don't have your gun just tucked into your pants waistband. It'll be in a holster, and even the most basic ones usually have a retention strap (with a snap) so someone who grabs and runs is gonna pull your whole hip with them, not just the pistol. And a random tweaker is not very likely to have the knowledge or hand coordination to grab your pistol and push the snap or thumb the release or however it works to actually release it. And just for shitsngiggles, a quick search for this doesn't turn up much. I see two incidents (2014 and 2017) before I got tired of scrolling down: one an actual snatch and run at Wally World, the other where one guy carrying actually held up another guy open carrying and demanded the gun.