The law is not static. The Second Acmendment was finally found to be an individual right only in in 2008, and found to apply to the States only in 2010. Whatever the status quo has been, Heller and McDonald have changed the landscape forever.
I doubt that very much. Concealed carry is available on a shall-issue, shall-issue-in-practice, or unrestricted basis in 41 states, by my count. That's a pretty high level of acceptance. Open carry makes people nervous; concealed carry is out of sight, out of mind.
Ttolhurst:
Once OC is accepted and not rejected, the 2A people will have won. It is the acceptance of the law abiding citizens right to bear arms that is needed, Hiding that arm like you are ashamed of it is not helping the cause. You are teaching no-one about the right to bear arms when you hide your carry like a criminal.
When average unarmed Jane and Joe Citizen walk down the street and pay no more attention to a proper OC than they do to a LEO walking down the street, then we will have true acceptance. They will finally understand that a law abiding citizen has nothing to hide.
I have just as much problem with "must OC" as I do "Must cover". Neither refects freedom or right of carry. I OC because it is comfortable, I dress for the weather, not my carry. I OC to show and teach others that we do have the right to carry as we please in WA state, and most of the US. I OC to get people used to that fact.
Does doing so make some people uncomfortable? Yes it does, but there is no constitutional "right" to be comfortable, there is a right to carry...WA Article 1 Section 24 and US 2A. It is someyhing like, if you see a bi-racial couple walking down the street. Does that make some people uncomfortable? 50 years ago you might even go to jail for that in some parts of the US. However, in the last 50+ years it has become more common, and more acceptable??? No? Same for OC, we need that level of acceptance to OC so that we are not constantly fighting the antis.
We have one SIL that is anti. Does he get uncomfortable around me...D$$ right. Does he say anything any more. Nope, I showed him the law, and how it is completely legal to OC and CC for our own SD in our state...
Now we just have to progress to the point where he finally realizes that the pistol is not going to jump out of that holster and shoot someone on it's own, and we'll be good.
Oh, I must add a comment to your first comment. Wrong. The Constitution has always ment what it says. It is not a "working document" That is why it is difficult to change. What happened with Hellier and McDonald was the courts officially said, yep that is what it says. It did not change anything about the constitution, it only changed what some people thought the constitution said, V what it actually has said all along. Even with Hellier and McDonald there are some that still will not accept what the court has stated because they don't like it...sorry for them.