Good point! Several folks have been killed because of this too over the past few years.
Personally, I think it’s a bit wreckless to OC. You put a big bulls-eye on yourself when you do and attract way too much unwanted attention.
I am in NC right on the border of SC. I skip over the line to buy gas because of the 33¢ difference in state tax per gallon.
Anyhow, NC is open carry and SC is not. Well, while I was carrying a holstered .40cal, my shirt had come up and over the gun. I walked into the store and a SC sherrifs deputy confronted me. He asked if I had a CCW, to which I showed him my NC issued CCW.
He was polite and said SC is not an open carry state and said to make sure I keep it concealed when I come into SC.
I was open carrying in SC, therefore I was breaking the law. But I was polite to this cop and he was polite in return. I said I would keep that in mind and thanks and all that.
If he had been a gungho billybadass cop, he could have drawn on me and arrested me.
My son, a policeman, is required by his employer to carry, at all times, while in public. Open or concealed, it's his choice but if he open carries , his badge must be showing. He chooses to carry concealed because as he says, showing a badge and a gun just makes him a target for the crazies of the world.