Regular people who conceal carry have been assaulted.
Yep. But not to get their guns!
Regular people who open carry are not assaulted.
What's the basis of that assertion?
Why? You have made the assertion; the burden of proof is yours.
If it happens there should be accounts of the incidents somewhere.
Maybe. And because you haven't seen them, you conclude that there are not, and even that the incidents have never occurred.
Recently someone unable to find relevant accounts on the web concluded that citizens with clean records are never charged with homicide in their homes!(?)! Equally preposterous.
Use a little common sense.
And by the way--is an 'ordinary Joe", or are "regular people" less or more likely than police officers to be assaulted for the purpose of getting a gun? Why? Do you think a perp trying to get a gun would somehow be deterred by the weapon on the belt of a civilian, but not by the weapons, cuffs, and radio carried by a trained officer?
We recently had a uniformed policeman gunned down because the perp needed a higher capacity weapon, which he than used in a mass murder in a gun free zone.
In fairness,
most high crime areas are in jurisdictions that do not permit open carry anyway, so the stats will not show a really high incicence of assault.
But change the law and watch that change.
If a couple or three thugs want my wallet, I may have to defend myself. But at least I will not have (1) advertised to them that I also have for the taking one of the most easily fenced and useful items they could possibly hope for, and (2) let them know that their only strategy is to take me out first.