Anti called me "Rambo"

[WayneConrad]

Very well handled on your part. Phoenix has, despite the influx of California culture and its large size, some pleasing remnants of old West culture. Thank you for carrying openly. I hope you'll consider continuing to carry openly despite this fellow's attitude. If my experience is any guide, encounters like yours will be rare.

 

[the pistolero]

Even if I were an anti, I would have to have something seriously wrong with my head to physically challenge a man wearing a Glock on his hip.

Well, many antis do have something seriously wrong with their head, just not to that extent, but that's a whole 'nother discussion entirely... I'd always heard of people projecting their own feelings and behaviors on others, but this jerk in the restaurant has to be the most outrageous example of it I've ever seen. C-grunt, good on ya for keeping your cool and counteracting the image the media likes to paint of us.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Did you throw back your shirt revealing criss crossed belts of ammo and say
"There's one man dead! It was not my fault! I don't want anymore hurt!"

 

[XDKingslayer]

You should have yelled at the top of your lungs "I'm not Rambo, I'm Jack Bauer and the only reason your still concious is because I don't feel like carrying you!"

 

[wingnutx]

Last time I open-carried in a JITB in Phoenix I was asked to leave. I had failed to notice the little sign on the door prohibiting weapons.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Because he can...I'd much rather carry open than concealed...an OWB is much more comfortable than an IWB, and you don't have to worry about "being found out" it's right there.

Oh I realize its because he can. And there is nothing wrong with that. From a theoretical, constitutional perspective I support open carry.

I also realize carrying open is more comfortable physically. But being yelled and cussed at publicly by a crazy man would make me kind of uncomfortable, and probably outweigh the comfort of open carry.

I don't feel the need to advertise that I have a weapon. It makes many of the people (sheeple) uneasy, and I think its impolite to intentionally make other people uncomfortable.

 

[wingnutx]

I only open-carry when I am on my way to the range and am carrying multiple weapons.

I now use the drive-through, too.

 

[Justin]

Wow. I would have just been so embarrassed for him.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Bah.

We was probably lookin' to stick the place up with a knife, and was all disappointed.

 

[Black Knight]

You handled it very well. You kept your cool while he lost his. Sounds to me that you are more mature than he was.
Someone once said something to the affect that it takes all kinds. This may be true but, I wish someone would tell me why there has to be so many of certain kinds.

 

[offthepaper]

So, if he thinks you're trying to act like Rambo,
then who does he think he's acting like?.......the Sheriff?
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"Him: Your just trying to be cool, I have lived all over the Us, in Europe, and the Middle East"

For being so world traveled he certainly has'nt learned much.

 

[kjeff50cal]

I think he was trying to goad you into assaulting him. He knew open carry is legal in AZ and would have been laughed at calling 911 (as if he isn't beening laughed at now) so he does his best Billy Martin in the umpire's face to get you in trouble. He is probally the one that sees his neighbor unloading his truck after a hunting trip and calls 911 and says he sees a man with a gun outside his house.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

You did great! Antis are always projecting their own lack of personal discipline to others. You not only proved to yourself that was not the case, you showed it to everybody else in that restaurant (and your sister got a good laugh out of it too).

 

[shooter94]

Same thing happend to me on several occasions...wearing a "shootin iron" on the hip brings on strange reactions sometimes. I think that you scared the guy...hence his reaction.

 

[Soybomb]

Heh funny story...I wish more people would open carry. Get the anti's nice and fired up, make more people aware they can carry a weapon legally (*offer void in Illinois and Wisconsin), and eventually get the anti's used to it.

We're here, we're armed, get used to it?

 

[evan price]

This happened to me once, had this crazy chick with a minivan with two little toddlers loose in it come dress me down at a gas station about my OWB Glock 19 and I told her that, "Were you aware that off duty police officers are usually required to carry their weapons with them at all times? And did you forget to put your children in approved safety seats before you left?"

(NOTICE: I did not say I *WAS* a police officer, because I am not!)

So after I said that, with my best Dirty Harry squint and "Voice of Auth-or-it-tay!" she turned bright red, apologized, and left me alone.
It helped that my work shirts look like uniform shirts (because they are) and I had my ID clipped to the collar.

 

[rtl]

Would have been difficult for me not to have been a smarta##. Kudos for not saying one of a million things we all would have wanted to say.

 

[Yeager]

I'm very uneasy with opencarry as I have a tendency to rest my idle elbow or even wrist on the butt or holster of which ever gun may be in the belt holster. I think this might be due to the shape of the hand guns I have. :banghead: I'm also very uneasy with CCW because being a fairly huskey person a gun shaped lump would show up under my shirt fairly well.

otherwise I wouldn't have a problem carrying anything.

 

[bg]

I guess he's been out in the sun too long.

Everybody knows that if you wanted to be RAMBO!!! you'd have an M-60 machine gun.

Duh.

And a headband. Don't forget the ragged out headband..

 

[DKSuddeth]

It makes many of the people (sheeple) uneasy, and I think its impolite to intentionally make other people uncomfortable.

understanding the issue of not wanting to have someone up in your face yelling and cursing at you........the rest of your sentence above, all I can say is to hell with them. They don't have a constitutional right to be offended, unnerved, embarrassed, or uncomfortable. It is completely a decision that they can make on their own with or without your exercising an actual human right. There is only so much 'high road' you can take before you start infringing your own rights.

 

[mp510]

So he lived in the Middle East and he's scared of guns:
www.truthandgrace.com/Images/muslimhate2.jpg
www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010914/ind4.jpg

I doubt that if he experience people over there open carrying assault weapons, he confronted them.

 

[Surefire]

He might have been trying to bait you...

You did the right thing by not letting it escalate...

 

[Limeyfellow]

Its days like that you wish you had access to an M60 and put the red cloth round your head and walk back into the store.

 

[CajunBass]

Him: Your just trying to be cool, I have lived all over the Us, in Europe, and the Middle East.

Any idea just what this statement had to do with anything?

You done good.

 

[johnny blaze]

I guess that you are going to find people who want to argue, or fight for anything that they do not think that someone else should be doing.
You did the right thing in being cool about it.
What amazes me is that you can carry a pistol on your hip and walk around in AZ with it.
They tell me that you can do that here in Ohio, but I think that you would be on the concrete spread eagle, more than you would be upright.