And how has that been working for you?
I disagree. I have plenty friends that sit farther left than you are comfortable with, and not 1 wants to disarm law abiding citizens. And most know that that’s not even logistically possible. Fox News would like you to believe that, just as CNN would like you to believe that all conservatives want to walk around with an AR15 over each shoulder. That’s how they control viewers, with fear. Sit down and have an adult, level headed conversation with some people (not politicians) on the left, and you might be surprised at the common ground. Now there are extremists on both sides, and frankly, they scare the hell out of me.
Well, the 'where' of NE Texas might matter. If we are talking about Tyler, rather than, say, Longview, dude in from the countryside might be OC 24/7 and does not realize the tender tendencies of citified people in downtown Tyler.
The more key question to me is, who on earth still goes to a brick-n-mortar bookstore?
I live in Washington state. You are not going to convince me that liberals do not want to disarm citizens.
Yep, he as a right to carry. And if he is line with me at the Movie theater, I think I will use my right to catch the next show.
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Yeah, that's a different ball of wax than a person that carries a pistol daily. Pistols on the hip mean self defense to my brain. Slung rifles in a common store mean "protest" to my brain. Good to see that he didn't have the rifle in front of him with a hand on it.
I disagree. I have plenty friends that sit farther left than you are comfortable with, and not 1 wants to disarm law abiding citizens. And most know that that’s not even logistically possible. Fox News would like you to believe that, just as CNN would like you to believe that all conservatives want to walk around with an AR15 over each shoulder. That’s how they control viewers, with fear. Sit down and have an adult, level headed conversation with some people (not politicians) on the left, and you might be surprised at the common ground. Now there are extremists on both sides, and frankly, they scare the hell out of me.
Change this to antis and I agree, open carry will not make a difference to them, they want all of our guns, period.You are not going to convince me that liberals do not want to disarm citizens.
I guarantee you that if the open-carry activists keep up what they are doing, we're going to end up seeing open carry abolished completely, and even concealed carry become more restricted.
That's the perennial argument in favor of open carry. (It has to be, because open carry puts you at a tactical disadvantage when it comes to self-defense.) I can tell you that where I live, open carrying is worrisome to bystanders. It's a great recruitment tool for the antigunners. So much so, that sometimes I think these open carriers are secretly antigunners conducting a provocative "false flag" operation.It could even be possible that if enough people do such it would normalize people to seeing other folks carrying weapons to a point that it doesn't freak them out.
Yeah, that was me many times. One time I'm on my way to work from Westchester Cty NY into the Bronx wearing a suit, and I think I see some red lights in my mirror. Hard to tell because I was riding a H-D XLCR Cafe Sportster. A rare vintage classic, but it vibrated like crazy and made seeing anything clearly in the mirrors impossible. It was a Harley that looked like a cafe racer, so a big sales flop for Harley in '77-78, but a collectable now. I'm not a Harley guy, but that bike was cool."Concealed" carry gives the carrier the advantage of surprise over a bad guy, always puzzled me why one would give away that advantage with an open carry.
Of course there are times when one becomes "exposed" without knowledge.
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People on this forum are not going to see a problem with it, and it’s not going to make them uncomfortable. I think we are a minority in that respect, and it’s important to remember that. I would venture that 95% of the people in this store were not “us.” And that 95% also goes to the polls. I just don’t really see what good comes out of carrying his weapon the way he is.
Fair enough. I’m not going to try to convince you that I’m not lying.
"Concealed" carry gives the carrier the advantage of surprise over a bad guy, always puzzled me why one would give away that advantage with an open carry.
Added note: if he headed to the section on applied chemistry or nuclear engineering I would definitely be not only heading for the door but a danger to life and limb of anyone in my way.
Change this to STATISTS and I agree, open carry will not make a difference to them, they want all of our guns, period.