>>Rifles slung across the back are not “brandished”, save in those states where the Law is an Ass.
Your subjective observations do not fit the objective world. 90% of the population who will witness this useless theater of the absurd will feel fear and dial 911 if you try this anywhere other than Bubba’s Crab Shack in Outback, Mississippi.
>>Rights not used are lost.
Falls trippingly off the tongue but is, in fact, a two bit sound bite meant to justify a provocative show of force in an extremely precarious battle that may determine whether or not we become governed by a dictatorship.
>>A major purpose of open carry is to make it commonplace.
Like you see in any banana republic airport or street corner? Nice. You get misread by a concealed carry bearer, a firefight ensues, that’s going to play real pretty on the 6:00 news. Try that in the ghetto. Get some freaking media savvy.
>>A good goal is to make future generations wonder why an individual is NOT carrying.
Concealed carry is good, no question. The perp not knowing where and when he’ll run into an armed citizen is good. But open carry is an invitation to disaster and illustrates why we are struggling for our lives against near liberal hegemony in all social institutions, we simply don’t know how to play the media game. And, make no mistake, media game it is. Did I mention the part about it being a media game?
This nation has been sensitized on the image of the “assault rifle”. The media circus has nearly successfully turned it into an icon for random death domestically, yet an instrument of liberation internationally. That’s the left’s blatant schizophrenia for you.
Regardless, 90% of your public is going to crap their pants when they see a non-uniformed civilian in a civilian setting (mall, cafe, supermarket, Summer street fair, etc.) with an icon of death they’ve seen a thousand times on the news in the hands of the Taliban, the Mexican mafia, the Moslem Brotherhood, the Syrian “freedom fighters”. This is such a no brainer.
You guys have your hearts in the right place, but you need to put in some thinking time on this one and put yourself in the shoes of your local (liberal) TV station’s News Editor. An incident over open carry is his propaganda wet dream.
Again, it’s a media war, a propaganda war, a war for the hearts and minds of John Q. Public, a public that has been jacked around for two generations by the Marxist Frankfort School/Gramsci intelligentsia. Feel free to Google those references.
Agreed. Let's win.
You don't do that by abandoning the battlefield.
If you must beg of your masters the permission to carry a weapon, are you not already governed by a dictatorship?