A terrible precedent is being set with guns in public places...

[The Straight Story]

31. I simply cannot agree with all of that

Yeah, some people open carry like that to be dicks.

Others, as I have noted before, are on the way to or back from hunting or even buying a gun and stop off at the store.

Leave the gun in the car - du folks yell because it could be stolen and used and crime and such people should be punished for leaving the gun alone in a car on a hot day.

Take it in with you, you are trying to intimidate people and scare them, you become like some boogeyman from a horror movie.

Let's face it - some people have a hate and bias against anyone who owns a gun and no matter how they use it they are seen as complicit in crimes they did not commit.

I don't fret over someone open carrying because if they were planning on shooting up the place they would have a) already started or b) hidden the gun on the way in (whether they had a conceal carry or not, people intent on breaking one law have no problem with the other).

Now, we could just make ccw legal without classes and permits (have seen some folk say if they don't see the gun they are not afraid of people, so if we hide things it will make people feel safer).

So far I have not seen these open carry advocates shooting up places - maybe the message some are trying to send is "Hey, we are not all wild killers like the stereotype of us people pimp." and, like other groups, they want to be seen as normal citizens like the rest of us but who also own guns (lord knows we press the bias here of anyone owning a gun, damned shame on a liberal board we have not learned that such blatant bias and peddling of hate/fear against a group is wrong).