The Open Carry Argument

[Bluejeeper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkRYg0gzgcM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I just ran across their latest video. It's a little better. The little feller thinks having to get a permission slip from the .gov is NOT an infringement and that it's only okay to open carry long guns at rallies and Ferguson.

 

[David D]

Found this to be amusing.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

You will be the first one shot and killed by the bad guy because he doesn't care if he dies or not..

 

[chipbennett]

You will be the first one shot and killed by the bad guy because he doesn't care if he dies or not..

[citation needed]

 

[protias]

You will be the first one shot and killed by the bad guy because he doesn't care if he dies or not..

 

[nakinate]

i think he's been around long enough to know better. Probably just

 

[cziemer]

I've made it about a hundred pages into this argument since I joined a few weeks ago. I gave up after that due to the repetitive nature of this thread. I really don't understand how anyone who believes in the second amendment doesn't agree that you should be allowed to open carry. I don't care about your personal qualms about being afraid to be targeted and shot (Why are you carrying a gun again?), but why does it matter than others don't have this fear? If more people carried openly, the public would once again get used to seeing firearms around and maybe, just maybe a few of them would be interested in arming themselves.

The "Where did you Open Carry" thread seems to have nearly 80% positive responses from the public, with the overwhelming negatives from law enforcement that somehow believe that everyone with a gun is out to shoot cops, or officers that don't know or understand the law they think they're upholding. In reading the first hundred pages of this I get the idea that there's a decent minority hear that believe open carry is totally and completely wrong, hell my best friend won't even consider it because "He's a afraid of being a target." That argument's been refuted so many times, yet that is nearly the only one I ever hear. The Second Amendment needs upheld no matter how you carry, we are forced through enough hoops to be able to exercise the rights guaranteed by the most important document in our Country's history, so why argue amongst ourselves in how to act it out.

For the record, I don't carry yet, I'm still waiting on my Larry, but I will more than likely carry concealed a good 85% of the time, why?, because my wife is not super comfortable with it, or with confrontation in general. The day she gets used to me carrying a handgun all the time, will be the day I move it to the outside of my belt for as much as I can while still carrying. I'll "respect" no firearms signs and conceal my weapon, but if I'm friendly with the waiter, or I know an employee, I'll ask why they have it. I'd do that now if I was in the habit of noticing them already.

Okay, end of my rant, and Thank you to those who open carry daily, for exercising the Second Amendment in the boldest way possible.

 

[protias]

I've made it about a hundred pages into this argument since I joined a few weeks ago. I gave up after that due to the repetitive nature of this thread. I really don't understand how anyone who believes in the second amendment doesn't agree that you should be allowed to open carry. I don't care about your personal qualms about being afraid to be targeted and shot (Why are you carrying a gun again?), but why does it matter than others don't have this fear? If more people carried openly, the public would once again get used to seeing firearms around and maybe, just maybe a few of them would be interested in arming themselves.

The "Where did you Open Carry" thread seems to have nearly 80% positive responses from the public, with the overwhelming negatives from law enforcement that somehow believe that everyone with a gun is out to shoot cops, or officers that don't know or understand the law they think they're upholding. In reading the first hundred pages of this I get the idea that there's a decent minority hear that believe open carry is totally and completely wrong, hell my best friend won't even consider it because "He's a afraid of being a target." That argument's been refuted so many times, yet that is nearly the only one I ever hear. The Second Amendment needs upheld no matter how you carry, we are forced through enough hoops to be able to exercise the rights guaranteed by the most important document in our Country's history, so why argue amongst ourselves in how to act it out.

For the record, I don't carry yet, I'm still waiting on my Larry, but I will more than likely carry concealed a good 85% of the time, why?, because my wife is not super comfortable with it, or with confrontation in general. The day she gets used to me carrying a handgun all the time, will be the day I move it to the outside of my belt for as much as I can while still carrying. I'll "respect" no firearms signs and conceal my weapon, but if I'm friendly with the waiter, or I know an employee, I'll ask why they have it. I'd do that now if I was in the habit of noticing them already.

Okay, end of my rant, and Thank you to those who open carry daily, for exercising the Second Amendment in the boldest way possible.

They all suffer from hoplophobia. So out of sight, out of mind.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

i think he's been around long enough to know better. Probably just

Did protias take my bait?

 

[protias]

Did protias take my bait?

I think I do every single time you've done that.

 

[ATM]

We don't require much bait these days, a shiny hook will do.

 

[actaeon277]

oh look
shiny

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

SHINY!!!

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

[citation needed]

A guy in a gun store told me so I know it's true.

 

[cce1302]

You have to conceal because the license doesn't say open carry on it.

 

[actaeon277]

You have to conceal because the license doesn't say open carry on it.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Mine says: Must be duct taped to forehead.

 

[eldirector]

You have to conceal because the license doesn't say open carry on it.

 

[warthog]

You have to conceal because the license doesn't say open carry on it.

It only says you can carry a loaded firearm and does not say how to carry it.

 

[cce1302]

It only says you can carry a loaded firearm and does not say how to carry it.

It doesn't say "loaded" either. It has to be unloaded.