peckerhead wrote:The Lance wrote:The problem is a certain someone thinks they know what they're talking about..
But in reality why would any of us listen to some moron who is **** up in the head enough to open carry full time..
I'm not participating in the name-calling, but anyone who OC's full-time is just begging to be taken down a few notches by some amped-up little rookie cop. Screw that...I'm just not that adventurous.
Yeah, I can understand that. There very well may be an extra eager rookie cop who gets all excited over a gun, true that. Seeing a gun may give them an excuse, but then so can anything I suppose. No point in adding to it, true. I've gone all over the metro OCing and the only two things I really noticed is:
1) The Cub Foods manager asked me to put it in the car, but since I know my weapon is safer on me then left unattended (even locked up), I chose to leave instead. The sheer lack of logic and belief in media FUD* astounded me. Seeing a holstered gun isn't ok, but if no one ever saw it because it was concealed, that's ok. Like not seeing a gun somehow makes it less dangerous in their mind? I guess it's a kind of a head-in-the-sand type of thing, like if they can't see it, then it doesn't exist. Weird. Anyway, there was already a thread on it, so I'm not going to rehash it here. I'm sure many concealed guns (both legal and illegal) have been carried in Cub Foods, but only an idiot would OC a gun they don't have a permit for and can't legally carry.
( * FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, not Fudd as in Elmer )2) I walked into a US Bank OCing and even though I was last in line, someone came up to me and asked if they could help me. they never mentioned the gun, and neither did I. I conducted my business and left.
(I was getting a cashier's check, and no, I don't want to carry a large sum unarmed Thanks.)It's not the guns you CAN see that are the problem (unless one is pointed at you), it's the ones you CAN'T see that concern me the most to me.
OCing isn't for everyone. There's risks, but if you OC, you accept them. Same thing with CC, there's risks, you accept them. Same thing with carrying at all, risks, you accept them. Life too. Risks, you accept them. It's all about the risks and weighing them out.
As mentioned before in another thread, when I emailed the local sheriff about his stance on federal gun control, he said he wouldn't enforce it. In my letter, I gave my full name, address, permit number, even the type of gun I carry and that I do so openly. I doubt the sheriff went and told all the local cops about it, but I don't go around shouting in public that I carry, carry openly, or do anything to draw attention to myself, likewise, I also don't hide the fact I carry. Some people notice, many don't. Some try to be sly about it, others not so much. That's life.
I respect the fact that people choose to carry how they see fit. I'm just glad they do carry, as long as they do so legally. OC, CC, all good by me.
Anyway, if the local sheriff wants to come get me for OCing, he knows where I live. Should the time ever come where I get pulled over, I had my DL and PTC. I don't keep my wallet anywhere near my firearm so Officer Excitable won't get all hot 'n bothered. Can't say I blame the cops, they don't know me from Adam.
