And if that policeman walked in carrying an M4, patrons would get understandably nervous. I realize the long-term goal is to desensitize the population at large, but jabbing their unwarranted sensitivities doesn’t work. Locales where such carry is viewed as acceptably normal usually are subject to other factors which make such carry an imperative, such as the circulated pictures of “girls next door” in Israel carrying M16s at an ice cream bar doing so in the context of ongoing looming threat of terrorists & neighboring countries he11-bent on destroying that locale (living in Condition Orange kinda gives a society a different perspective on open carry than living in Condition Clear or Brown).
Yes, there is a line between carry & brandishing. Seems some people don’t realize there’s a gradient alongside that line, whereby being close to the line doesn’t look much different from being on the wrong side of it; they seem to think in pure black-and-white, equating carry-in-hand with disassembled & concealed & locked, wantonly bewildered that anyone might perceive the former as indicative of impending threat and/or unhinged individual.
“And if that policeman walked in carrying an M4, patrons would get understandably nervous.”
Uh no.....YOU would get nervous...anything else is purely projection on your part.