Posted: 11/16/2006 7:13:46 PM EDT
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What's wrong with concealed carry?Why Do you want to let everyone know you have a gun on you? |
I'd be the first to walk into a shopping mall with my Sig P226R in a tactical thigh holster and my SBR slung over my sholder 
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They already do that down here in Opa Locka.....just sub AK for the SBR. |
I got your back Brother!!!! Slug-O |
+1 Fear of the unknown is the number 1 weapon. but I wouldn't mind walking around with my AR15/AK47 
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#1 Open carry is more comfortable. #2 Open carry provides visual deterance. The bad guys don't like hard targets folks.  I'd open carry in a heart beat, and no I don't worry about someone taking my weapon away from me. Just ask anyone who knows me if they thing that would be a good idea.
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Mmmmmm.... Wishful thinking I'm afraid but..... I would probably still CCW most of the time but it would be great if printing/flashing weren't a problem and, when conditions made CCW impractical, being able to open carry would be great. I think the most beneficial thing would be de-sensitizing people WRT handguns. Maybe the sheeple would figure out that it's safer for us all if we let BGs know that we will defend ourselves "with vigor". |
...and that is precisly why we lose rights, people dont want to regain them because they are 'Unworthy' and 'Pick and choose' 
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Open carry may be a visual deterrence to some crack head dumbshit bad guy but it may work the other way also. Meaning you might be the first one to get shot standing in line in a convenience store that some guy comes in to rob. |
Ding! We have a winner! If I was going to pull a robbery and I needed crack bad enough to do it in the first place the old guy with the pistol on his hip would be the first one out of the picture. It wouldnt be a deterrent at all i would just shoot him and move on with plan A. And No I wouldnt stop to ask someone who knows him if it was a good idea! |
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Maybe some of you have issue with situational awareness, and bad guys are looking for EASY scores, not one where there is going to be potential active resistance. Seeing a gun IS the deterrent. If the logic you follow is the ones stated above then their would ne NO crime. The UNKNOWN doesnt concern scum or they wouldnt risk robbing people |
You're right, NORMALLY, bad guys are looking for easy targets. But if a guy walks through the door of a Mini Mart with a gun in hand to rob it and sees you paying for your coke open carrying, you're getting shot. I'd rather be concealed carry in plain clothes. I don't want them to figure out what the hell happened to them until they are dead on the tile in the store. Leave the open carry to people who have the training to carry that way. And trust me I have no issues with situation awareness. |
Yeah I can't tell you how many nights I lost sleep over this very thing working uniformed patrol. Wake up and smell the bullshit.
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I'm a firm believer in the "An armed society is a polite society" mentality, but think about the down side of everybody open carrying for a second. Think about all the people that you know that shouldn't be anywhere near a gun having one all the time.  And the proper person to "pester" would be lame-duck Jeb, as I'm not impressed by Crist. |