>One other thing. If you advocate completely Open Carry, then you are defending the “rights” of a convicted child molester to follow your 8 year old daughter or granddaughter home from her school bus stop, with a pistol in his hand, as long as he stays on public property, such as a sidewalk, and there is NOTHING you can do about it.
Interesting position; I reject it. A child molester who has served their sentence should have ALL rights and privileges restored, period. {Whether or not the sentence is just is another, separate matter.} So, in that sense I _MUST_ be for the ex-convict being allowed to be armed, true.
HOWEVER, stalking IS illegal; and you have attached that into your scenario. Why should my advocacy of human rights, such as self defense, be linked to the condoning of a crime?
Walking down the sidewalk behind someone, with no communication of a threat or verbal contact, hardly constitutes stalking.