While I am all for this open carry law, I have yet to see anyone offer an explanation of why CONCEALED CARRY is a “bad thing.”
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Concealed Carry makes it a bit of a mystery who’s going to be able to shoot back ~ which I guess diverts potential assailants in a different direction. Open Carry or Constitutional Carry as some are referring to it for guns (rather than cans of suds) leaves little to the imagination.
Concealed carry is not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. Our problem in Mississippi is that we have ONE statewide elected democrat, our Attornet General. Like most democrats he is obviously against the People’s God given right to keep and bear arms. If a firearm was inadvertantly seen you were considered to be brandishing, democrats working overtime to make law abiding citizens lawbreakers. Actually this law just reinforces our Constitution of 1890 which gave us the right to open carry but neede legislative permission to carry concealed. The AG was trying to circumvent our Constitution and legislature.
‘While I am all for this open carry law, I have yet to see anyone offer an explanation of why CONCEALED CARRY is a “bad thing.”’
As I recall, the argument was that open carry of a weapon was perfectly legal and customary, and that anyone who wanted to carry a weapon concealed had some nefarious illegal intent behind their desire or wanted to have an undue advantage over their fellow citizens in case of an altercation, by appearing unarmed. At least, as I recall, that was justification in the early 1800’s for some states making concealed carry illegal.