Take Away All Guns If Posible - Agree? - 33,000 Lives Saved Per Year Worth It?

[Lizzie Poppet]

190. My (more detailed) take on open carry.

Basically, I like for a local jurisdiction to have the right to make its own call on open carry. What's a really bad idea in one place may well be common and harmless in another. In some rural areas, open carry is fairly commonplace, whether for hunting or just a common, day-to-day practice. It doesn't draw much notice, and these places aren't commonly hotbeds of violent crime (or at least shootings...domestic violence stats can be another matter).

In other places, open carry is genuinely jarring, since it's basically never seen. Open carry in such places seems to be done largely as a political statement...and it's laughably counterproductive. And obviously as a personal security measure, it's tactically mindless ("hey, Mr. Person-with-Bad-Intent, you'll want to shoot me first!&quot . My city (Portland) and county (Multnomah) prohibit open carry, but it's legal by state law. Local jurisdictions have an explicit exemption from state-level gun law preemption specifically for open carry, and are free to ban the practice. This policy works for me...