Posted on 12/16/2004 10:55:17 AM PST by neverdem
"The wearer would have to be hypervigilant, always worried that someone might try to steal the weapon."
Concealed carry is difficult to maintain. Some people are too skinny to actually conceal a weapon, some people just like big guns, and some, like me, sweat heavily, and would damage anything not resistant to saltwater. I suppose that better would be a mix of concealed and open carry for everyone. As for hypervigilance, everyone should be anyway, all the time. As for open carry being problematic, so is not carrying at all. I have much prefered the places and times where I could carry openly for several reasons; among them that no one would consider it safe to mess with me or mine. I've never had to fire a gun in anger, and that includes my entire military career, as well. Things could have been very different. The one time I was likely to NEED to be armed, in a war zone, our command structure had decided not to allow it. We were left to secure our equipment and persons with sledge hammers, axes, and pry bars; fortunately, it turned out to be one of the Saudi guards freaking out and shooting at shadows on the opposite side of the compound, but...
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