Sergei Mosin
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Fear of what you consider to be not normal, huh? If only those pesky open carriers would just hide their guns like 'normal' folk, we wouldn't have to see those scary guns. Sounds like progress to me.
I don't always wear my personal body armor, but I do train with it from time to time as it is a part of my home defense set up. If that causes someone to leave the range, good. More room for me and less to deal with.
Unusual behaviors cause concern. Reactions will vary depending on the behavior and the person observing it. A person unknown to me, not in uniform, and wearing body armor in public is sufficiently unusual behavior that I'd want to put as much distance as possible between myself and that person as possible. Generally speaking, people wear body armor when they're expecting trouble, and I don't want to be around when trouble happens, so I'm leaving. That's one unusual behavior and one person's reaction to it.
Now maybe if I shot at a range frequented by people who trained in body armor I'd have a different outlook - at least at that range. It might be normal behavior there. But I don't see those kinds of people at the ranges around here, so it would be a cause for concern.
Open carry doesn't bother me. Different behavior, different reaction.