Faulty, presumptive mindsets that believe a gun is a magic trinket: It is the mindset of someone who is unprepared for the reality of the street.
Really, interesting, how do you draw this conclusion? What evidence do you have that supports that statement?
For many years I personally didn't carry any weapons whatsoever, because of the potential mental scrambling that can occur if your attacker dispossesses you of it or worse gains possession of it, if you don't have a weapon that can't occur, if your attacker does, and they lose it or you gain possession of it, then they're at a huge disadvantage. That was my mindset, it's not everyone's, but I spent probably more time training (both as a hobby and professionally) in unarmed and armed combat than some people here have been alive.
Indeed from the back and forth we had, I'd consider your presumptions to be far more faulty. As I explained to you back in post # 90 you're blaming a mechanism to carry a tool on a failure in mindset you have not yet addressed that. You are examining an event (open carrying) without regard for any possible preparations prior to that event, and drawing to be quite frank a very patronizing conclusion. That conclusion being the OC crowd haven't considered that someone may be attracted by their visible display of their firearm, and that's an unlikely consideration with the large majority of anti-OC, pro-CC shouting that to the heavens every time we have this kind of thread.
You're also disregarding a large body of published evidence that shows that except in a few cases most criminals will not attack a known armed victim, which is by it very nature is a non-deterrent for concealed carry. Sure in the 1% chance of the 1% chance you might attract the attention of some nut who wants to chance their arm.
Ultimately as I've said open carry, concealed carry, or unarmed people do get attacked, frequently because they do something stupid that makes them a target (no such thing as a random crime), OC has the advantage by the attention it garners of never letting someone who OC's from forgetting that they're armed, and thus maintains their attention, while forgetting your armed with concealed carry in highly unlikely, there is not the constant reinforcement. It also extends to a small degree the latitude in doing something stupid and getting away with it. Sure by open carrying you incidentally make yourself the target in maybe 1 in 10,000 crimes. Which is as I said something you can account for with mindset.
While the Lakewood situation happened and the criminal was not deterred by OC, at the same time OC did not attract the attack anymore than JFK being in an open top limo attracted LHO (assuming it was LHO and not the CIA, Mafia, Cubans whoever).
Now that said, OC is a personal choice, no one who OC's is saying you should they might give reasons generally public education reasons, personal and political reasons why they open carry, or sometimes defensive reasons why they do. These are all valid reasons, there are equally valid reasons to CC. Most people who OC (who don't find CC registration offensive, or cannot get a permit [Californians]) CC too. They're not trying to convince people who don't OC that they should, nor is this thread about that, it's about whether you do. I've already answered that question on here. It's not my place to argue what someone else should or should not do, I will however defend my choices.
