Rather that quibble about definitions, which won't mean a hill of beans in this case, I will simply point out the following:
1) No one can argue the PROFOUND impact women have had on American governance since the 19 Amendment.
2) Women had no official, direct influence on the framing of the Constitution.
3) Women comprise MORE than 50% of the vote.
From that, I conclude rubbing the noses of those who are "scared of guns" in endless citations of the exact text of the 2nd Amendment while we wave our guns around "just so they'll get used to it" runs the very real risk of galvanizing a "Prohibition" mindset in women; if for no other reason than them "not being consulted" when the "hallowed words" of the 2nd Amendment were transferred from heaven to paper...
Now don't let my "tongue in cheek" approach put you off to the fact that I am deader than "dead serious" about my guns. But I'm more than happy to carry a little card in my wallet "allowing" me to carry a big gun under my jacket if it means it won't occur to a bunch of bliss-ninnies they can get together and "show me" the error of my patriarchal, bourgeois, reactionary ways.....
“Women had no official, direct influence on the framing of the Constitution.”
Silliness. Women influence, even control, their menfolk directly and constantly, and have been doing so since the Garden of Eden. The Constitution and amendments didn’t arise from smoke-filled backroom mancaves without womens’ significant input. And my wife told me it’s ok to say that.
“From that, I conclude rubbing the noses of those who are “scared of guns” in endless citations of the exact text of the 2nd Amendment while we wave our guns around “just so they’ll get used to it” runs the very real risk of galvanizing a “Prohibition” mindset in women; if for no other reason than them “not being consulted” when the “hallowed words” of the 2nd Amendment were transferred from heaven to paper...”
Open Carry isn’t waving guns around in order to desensitize the gun-scared, and quoting the Constitution to the Constitution-ignorant public, and women in particular, won’t make women go all single-issue anti-gun in order to change the Constitution. They’ll still vote their conscience (and pocket book) in as complex a manner as all other voters.
My piece of paper in my pocket is not so I can carry concealed, it’s so I won’t be charged with a felony concealed possession if something goes wrong (my fault or others’) that exposes, with or without my permission, my carrying. Legal Open Carry would eliminate that specific tacked-on charge by zealous anti-gun prosecutors (a bigger and more immediate worry than women voting en bloc to eliminate the 2A).