CCW holder shows poor judgement

[Willie Sutton]

"That's not advertising that I'm carrying. It's a t shirt"

It's an indicator.


That might be good (maybe someone starts a nice conversation with you because of it).

It might be bad (adverse social interaction ranging from being treated badly by some anti to being singled out for special attention by a bad actor. Insofar as bad actors are concerned, it might be a guy who wants what you might have, or a cop who isn't so particular about how he develops his desire to hassle you.)


But in any case, it's because you advertised your interests on your chest.

Me? If I want a conversation I'll start it, and I prefer to do without being hassled by anyone. So I don't generally advertise *anything* on my shirt. Actual mileage may vary, and you should enjoy life the way you choose to enjoy it too.


Now:

Everything we do advertises something. The car you drive, the clothes you wear, the watch you wear, the shoes you wear. Your accent and vocabulary. Your demeanor and your dental health. Your bumper stickers. Your hands. Your haircut. All of these are socio-economic indicators. To think that nobody notices or that everyone is treated the same is silly. We can guide others interactions in many ways by controlling what they see about us. I can tell about 85% of what I need to know about someone in the first 15 seconds after shaking their hand and saying hello. I can take a pretty good guess as to where they are from, their level of education and economic success, and their role in society. You can influence this. You can accentuate things, or you can suppress things, or you can deliberately misguide things (for a while). So: Guide the discussion in their brains the way YOU want them guided.

As Trent said, use of misinformation is a tool too.... and there's a certain pleasure in simply not caring what others think, as long as it does not affect you adversely.



Willie

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[Deltaboy1984]

It's offensive only to those who seek such offense.

Yep.

 

[BSA1]

This argument over Open Carry is endless and keeps repeating the same old statements like it makes you a target, others find it offensive, etc., without any real world data to support these statements.

How about we simply try being polite and respect without critizing other peoples choices or to put it more plainly; just tend to your own affairs.

 

[Glock Doctor]

I've long said that if someone wants to make a political statement then it's best done with a T-shirt, or printed handout rather than an exposed sidearm.

I guess I feel this way because I just don't know how to tell the difference between a James Holmes, Colin Ferguson, or Jared Loughner; and some well-intended, but, ingenuous nincompoop who thinks he's doing a concealed carrier like me a favor by somehow, 'demonstrating' for everybody's Second Amendment rights.

Today, people are scared; and, let's face it, rightly so! Almost everyday the organized national news media does everything they can to make sure the worried American public stays that way, too.

When you look at things in this way it makes no good sense for anybody to flash guns, or expose sidearms inside an urban environment. It just makes it tougher for people like me to know who, or who not to keep an especially close eye on.

I agree with the OP: An attention whore is an attention whore; or, maybe, he's just plain impotent! I really don't know, don't want to know, and wish these guys with erection problems would finally get smart, wise up, and cut it - the hell - out.

Their antics with exposed firearms aren't helping anybody; they're NOT making the social situation any better, either. Not for themselves, and certainly not for the general public - Which includes other equally well, or even better armed people like me, too.

The general public doesn't want to be reminded of all the sick crap that goes on with guns in America, today; and neither do I; nor would I, voluntarily, ever do anything incredibly stupid like broadcast to the general public that I'm armed and potentially the (second?) most dangerous unknown entity in the immediate environment.

 

[Jeff White]

Since we can't stay on topic, in case many of you haven't noticed, this threat is in Strategies, Tactics and Training, and the topic is, "Is it poor judgement to wear gunny clothes when carrying concealed.

This thread despite what many members have tried to make of it, it not about the open carry/concealed carry debate. I don't understand why we can discuss the "CCW uniform" items like fanny packs and photogrphers vests but we can't discuss t-shirts.

This one is closed!