Thats kinda the way I feel. Got into a discussion yesterday on another thread about open v/s concealed carry. Alot of different opinions about it. Guess it's just personal preference.
Open carry is poor self defense tactic but good for normalizing lawful carry by law abiding citizens.
I had a talk with the guys at my workplace about this, too. They know I have my CCW (I’ve taken a few of them shooting) and they asked, “Wouldn’t you freak out if you saw these guys walking in the place where you and your family were eating?”
I told them, “If they weren’t breaking any laws, I wouldn’t. But I’m not the kind of guy who’d tell others what they should or shouldn’t do because it made me, ‘FEEL,’ uncomfortable.”