Rattled and shaken after seeing open carry in a grocery store

[davidthegnome]

296. That's your response?

This is why open carry will become far more common in the near future (because valid fears of random scumbags and idiots with guns are mocked). It's very easy to sit back from a self proclaimed morally superior stance and say "Well, I don't shop there." Walmart, for all of it's evil and flaws though, remains one of the cheapest places (particularly in a lot of more rural areas, that don't necessarily have access to malls, or other big stores) to buy things. For instance, 100 bucks at my local grocery store buys you a few bags worth of food and supplies - at Walmart, you can fill a cart if you're conservative. Maybe it's different in other parts of the Country, maybe there are places where you can still go to a grocery store and stock up on food as you could at a Walmart for similar cash... but not where I live.

Yes, it's a scuzzy operation, but looking down your nose at someone with some pretty valid concerns just strikes me as a rather petty thing to do - unless, of course, your argument is in favor of open carry, in which case, you should say so.

I'm not gonna cross them (Walmart) off my list because I'm too damn broke to consider doing that, but I can certainly understand a parent, or grandparent's fear of random people walking around the shopping aisles with guns in their belts. Perhaps in the future every idiot will be able to carry a gun wherever they please, in which case, we will certainly see the lie put to the "good guy with a gun" scenario.

It is one thing for security, police, or military to carry weapons. It's something very different when you have untrained, ignorant rednecks walking around with guns that they just barely manage to avoid shooting themselves in the feet with. Particularly given the current atmosphere in this Country... no, those guns make me nervous too.