The ironies run deep. Just like ISIS shooting itself in the foot by committing an insane public relations policy in thinking that horrifying acts of violence will spread fear and weaken resistance to their Sharia mentality, so do the “open carry” idiots shoot themselves in the brain by creating a spectacle that every anti-gun nut on the planet wet dreams about. Open carry is either a stupid mistake or the strategy of the closet Nazi element in conservative socio-politics. It will do nothing but strengthen the anti-gun nut cadres by inviting reaction and violent provocations that will not play well on the 6:00 news.
Gun owners who love their rights should battle against this “wild West” idiocy. Or prepare to live with the results.
You make a good point as everything in our culture is now political it subsequently matters most how it is sold rather that what and who it affects.
In Alaska and Montana open carry was so common no one blinked twice, I think that’s what the open carry advocates hope for, for it to become routine.
Ed