If there is no proof that open carry is dangerous and there is proof that concealed carry can get you assaulted. Guess which method of carry I am choosing.
Suit yourself.
Tell me...how can concealed carry
get one assaulted? That makes absolutely no sense at all.
I have explained how open carry can invite assault....
Let's try it this way: tell me...if
you were a meth head in dire straights, and you and your desperate friends needed to get something right away that could be immediately converted to cash or used in armed robberies or used to defend against the dealer you cannot pay, would you select as your target (a) someone at random who may or may not be carrying what you might want, or (b) someone openly carrying a gun ready for the taking, who could easily be taken by surprise?
If you were (and were permitted to) to carry openly in dangerous urban environment, do you really think you could successfully avoid that surprise, that unexpected ambush from multiple directions? If so, why? How have you done in training against such attacks? Just how well honed
are your weapon retention skills?
Here's what's in the Kentucky CCW manual on the subject. Yes, it's just an opinion. But it is common sense, and it is consistent with advice I have received from professionals.
I believe that anyone that carries a deadly weapon is foolish to carry it openly. Carrying a gun or other weapon openly invites predators to assault you and take the weapon away. It invites the most vicious of attacks by criminals who practice how to disarm police and citizens. Being careless, unwilling, unskilled or unable to use a weapon you are carrying is a disaster waiting to happen. Predators sense when their targets are timid, unable or unwilling to protect themselves. We constantly communicate with words, body language, etc. That is why people that are assaulted are often assaulted repeatedly because they communicate that they carry money, or are easy targets. Carrying openly gives away the tactical advantage of carrying a weapon concealed. It invites the criminal to attack you and it scares the public. Frightening the public only causes an increase in restrictive gun laws. Don‟t expose a weapon unless your life is at risk and if you must carry, carry it concealed. These are my suggested basic rules of the
road:
1. When in doubt keep it holstered and concealed. Removing it will expose you to:
a. being mugged by a criminal that wants the weapon,
b. having it stolen after you advertise you now have something to steal,
c. having an innocent child or person use the weapon injuring themselves with it or
d. being charged with a crime by someone that amuses himself by claiming you with threatening them with a gun.
The author is Nick C. Thompson.
http://www.kentucky-concealed.com:/Information/Kentucky%20Concealed%20Carry%20Justifiable%20Homicide.pdf
Somewhere, and I can't put my hands on it, a pro has set forth his strategy for surviving in a dangerous situation. Rule no. 1, of course is non-attendance, and close to the top was to no draw attention to oneself--flashy clothes, jewelry, load talk.
What more effective way is there to draw attention to onself than to wear a gun openly?
Now, that wouldn't be a big deal in Salmon, Idaho, but if one were to try it in Dade County, FL, well--I hate to put it quite this way, but maybe he would deserve his fate.