I am making an effort to open carry as well as conceal carry and it works. No adult has said anything and all the kids want to see my gun and want to know if I am a cop or FBI agent. (Of course I don’t let them see or touch).
Arizona has had an almost doubling of conceal carrys this past years as well as the same in open carry reported by police.
GREAT!
>I am making an effort to open carry as well as conceal carry and it works. No adult has said anything and all the kids want to see my gun and want to know if I am a cop or FBI agent. (Of course I don’t let them see or touch).
Let them see {and explain about it} but not touch. It is the unfamiliarity with weapons and the “gasp-response” which condition “the kids” to believe that guns are bad.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say let them touch... after disassembling it to show/explain how it works. (Provided that it’s not inappropriate to turn it into a learning-experience/teaching-session AND not in danger of damaging the weapon or its functionality.)
The main strength of the gun-control crowd is the ignorance, of the general population, regarding guns.