You need to remove your sig line. It doesn’t fit with your denigration of this mans efforts to be “be forearmed”...
If you have fallen for the fallacy of “looking like a weak, easy target by carrying concealed only” is better than looking like a capable adversary who is openly armed, then this could explain a few things about your attitude.
Unh-unh. If open carry is the only option for law-abiding people, the only one for the perpetrator to fear and avoid is the open carrier -- like, say, a police officer or person with openly visible arms. No change in violent crime there.
But where concealed carry is another, and preferred option, especially in a "shall issue" state, the violent crime rate markedly drops. John R. Lott, Jr.'s statistics say so, I believe so, and act accordingly. Don't be the first to find out if the crowd I'm in is forewarned. You won't know until you show your hand.