I believe concealing badly is wrong.
What about striped pants with a polka-dot shirt, or a fat guy with a short necktie? Is it you job to point out that?
So it's in your power to eliminate the reason why people walk up to you, you choose not to, and begrudge those people their reactions?
The open bearing of arms is not something that needs to be eliminated. I have a problem with the infantile reactions of people who are so moved by the presence of a gun "Look! Look! A Gun! Talk to me about it!"
Yes, it's a gun, are those buttons on your shirt? Talk to me about it!
..could eliminate the problem
Again, why do feel carry is a "problem"?
I'm starting to notice a trend in your posts.
Do you feel guilt or shame about carry?
Do
YOU carry?
There's a small number of people I truly trust with a gun around me.
That's a blatantly elitist statement, and flies in the face of the concept of "inalienable rights".
Keep it up, you have an audience.
Especially considering the entire point of concealing is to lower your perceived threat profile.
Nope, fail.
Some people put a gun in their pocket because they need two hands for pumping gas, buying groceries, or filling out bank papers.
Want to lower your threat profile? Don't approach strangers with guns!!!
blah blah blah there are only a million threads on this forum blah bah blah we all know that no one has ever been violent at a political event. blah blah blah
You didn't learn anything from those threads, either.
Learn to watch the threat from a defensible position, not making yourself a target.
Most of your right to privacy ends when you go into a public place
As does your right not to have to see guns or sloppy dressers.
If you're doing something that draws attention, it's reasonable to expect those things to happen.
Since when is exercising my 2nd amendment right "drawing attention to myself?"
Oh, that's right, when you disapprove of how it looks.
...by not doing anything that draws attention, rather than insisting that everyone else in the universe play a game of "see no evil".
So, I need to dress to fool every Jr. G-man with x-ray vision.
And since when is carrying "Evil"?
This is too easy.
That's doing a half assed job, and then laying the responsibility off on other folks to pretend an adequate job was done.
There is no responsibility being lain upon anyone. He's got a sloppy concealment, a booger in his nose, an untied shoe, his buttcrack showing, ad infinitum. You don't have to pretend it's not there, you DO have to accept it and move along, because chances are HE DOESN'T CARE if you don't approve.
Sorry you don't understand that.
I understand fully.
You have assigned yourself the role of arbiter of proper carry.
You are the Fashion Police.
Your insistence on pointing out the splinter in another's eye has blinded you to the plank in your own. The question at hand has always been "Why do you feel the need to point out to someone what they already know?"
I put forth that it is an adolescent need to show that you know something about someone that they don't know you know.
A more probable, based on a critical reading of your post, more nefarious motivation is a desire to out anyone other than you who may be carrying, because, as you have plainly said, you don't trust the hoi palloi to have guns. If they can't hide them, how the heck can they be trusted with them.