I might just be "dead right" from doing nothing at all. Turning a blind eye to lawlessness certainly does nothing to make that LESS likely.

If you're genuinely afraid of the police where you live, that's an entirely different problem from mere open carry, and not one that will ever be resolved merely by not open carrying. That's like worrying about a leaky faucet in a hundred story apartment building constructed directly on top of the San Andreas Fault.