Wow! How old are you, sir? I’m 32 years old, and I’ve never seen it in my day, but I’ve seen pictures of my father and my uncles with their rifles IN SCHOOL. No school shootings back then. I have a picture of my uncle at a gas station putting fuel in his boat with a revolver on his hip.
This was NORMAL just 50 years ago. Now people like you are “afraid” of an “incident” in a mall or a store.
And the whole “Gun Free Zone” argument is a canard. If they want to ban guns, then do it. We’ll patronize businesses that are gun-friendly. You should think the same way, regardless if you carry or not.
I'm older (and wiser LOL) than you. I come from the time we had gun racks in back glass in our unlocked trucks at school. Yeah, 50 years ago it was different. What has changed? People. We have too many of them. And too many screwballs. It is better to be discreet than to go around bragging by showing off. Pride goeth before a fall. And the fall will come when too many show-offs do what you say because either (1) the gun holder reacts when confronted by store-owners/police or the (2) the police over-react to Mr. Harmless not raising his hands quick enough. You're courting disaster unnecessarily.