Posted on 06/21/2014 5:07:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
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What a telling comment there on the end. The same people who appear to be scared into wetting themselves at the sight of a free person carrying a firearm, don't readily accept that it deters criminals. I guess they are just lesser people.
Like, OMG, I'm like OMG, there's like, OMG, police and no SWAT teams
and Helocopters, like, OMG.
There are places here in Michigan (Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo) where police will get so many panicked calls that they pretty much have to check an open carrier out but most places nobody notices.
The crazy thing is that open carry has always been legal in Michigan with concealed handgun carry being illegal till a few years ago. We’re getting back to the way things were in the pre Clinton gun panic era.
Hoplophobia is just pitiful. It was created and fomented by the Jim Brady bunch, and it is one of the many pebbles placed in the shoes of
the American people for the sake of disarming us all and exterminating those who are not enthusiastic about creating a communist utopia.
Sounds about right. I’ve been open carrying for...a long time. Most people don’t notice. Most who do notice don’t care or assume you’re a cop. Those very few who do comment are usually more curious about the legalities than anything.
"His sidearm deters would-be criminals, he believes, although he says he has no proof of that:
I worked in a bad neighborhood for several years. When one afternoon two dirty looking white boys took offense at my driving.
They were yelling and gesturing at me to pull over for a beating when I reached under the car seat, as they were watching. Suddenly their demeanor changed and they turned at the next light.
So I have no 'proof' they were deterred....except thbis story and that I'm here to tell it.
I’ll never hear that Marty Robbins song again without stirring up an image of the Courier walking the Nevada wasteland.
Good vid. Thanks for posting.
bttt!
Great post! I am a more comfortable with concealed carry, but I live in a poor-to-middle class mostly black neighborhood which is strongly leftist. I suspect that if residents saw somebody with a gun around here they would automatically assume you were up to no good. Unfortunately, that would not be an altogether incorrect assumption based upon past experience in this area.
Nevertheless, I have nothing personally against open carry by citizens. I just think some folks would have a larger learning curve in getting used to it.
Now that you mention it, the few comments I do get are usually from blacks. Always positive though; typical question is what kind of license would they need to open carry? Here in VA the answer is they don’t need one at all.
That is encouraging! That is the beauty of true open carry is that you get rid of all that beauracratic licensing & fees.
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I was just thinking of that song, when I read the headline ;)
Thanks for posting the vid link.
About 4 months ago I saw something I had never seen before: a black man open carrying.
Made my day.
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