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Maybe they need to develop some good taste in clothing.You're going to offend East Coast police retirees!
An open carry observation
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Plus, if these jokers will act out against a trained police officer it's dead certain they will against a civilian. I'll just stay the grey man and do all in my power to avoid a confrontation. I will never place myself in a situation where I may be perceived to be the instigator. My sainted Dad told me more than 65 years ago "Son, don't ever be the one to start a fight-but if you're forced into one, fight to win". Good advice then and good advice now.
What are you basing this on? I seem to remember the last poll that they did suggested that at least 51% of Americans owned at least one gun. That, by definition, is a majority. How do you know what the majority of Americans feel did you ask the majority of Americans? I mean there's 300 and some million people in this country did you ask 150 some million of them how they feel about firearms?
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Unless the police officer is an MP they're already acting out against a civilian
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I am surprised that the discussion of whether the school resource officer was safely carrying deteriorated into a wide-ranging discussion of open carry in general.
Seems to me the sensible response is that the officer very much needed a better holster that offered some REAL retention of the pistol.
ALL the rest of the commentary in this thread IMHO, is just superfluous.
Seems to me the sensible response is that the officer very much needed a better holster that offered some REAL retention of the pistol.
ALL the rest of the commentary in this thread IMHO, is just superfluous.
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I happen to own and love my M17. I have done everything all of the wackos here have suggested to get it to fire on its own unsuccessfully. It simply does not fire unless the trigger is pulled. The Air Force checked 25000 Sig M18s and found about 190 needing repair from EXCESSIVE WEAR. Who knows how many rounds were fired from those firearms or where they were located. I only carried the M17 when I was an armed security guard, these days it's one of my favorite range weapons. Carry firearms are a Sig P365X and a Kimber Micro 9. However if the occasion arose where I had to carry a full size handgun I would not hesitate to carry the M17 in my Blackhawk Level 2 Kydex holster. It's my leg, not yours.
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I am not a people person. I do not want ANYONE to speak to me/approach me uninvited. Being left alone is one my most important values.
I try to be as gray as possible; I keep my speed on the Interstate below the "threshold of trooper", you name it. I have seen average people freak out about firearms, and yell stuff, etc. Are they bat guano crazy? Yes. Is that any consolation when I end up drawing attention? No. Avoiding that is more important to me than anything, and while I almost never unarmed, I choose to conceal in a method as consistent with anonymity as possible.
I try to be as gray as possible; I keep my speed on the Interstate below the "threshold of trooper", you name it. I have seen average people freak out about firearms, and yell stuff, etc. Are they bat guano crazy? Yes. Is that any consolation when I end up drawing attention? No. Avoiding that is more important to me than anything, and while I almost never unarmed, I choose to conceal in a method as consistent with anonymity as possible.
Thread drift is the marque of this forum.
Well, there hasn't been an OC thread recently, though there has been 100's if not 1000's of them. People repeating the same ol' same ol' like we haven't heard them the last hundred times.
If he had a retention holster and if he had engaged the slide mounted safety the OP would not have posted about him.
If I think an open top holster is dangerous, I may say so.
If I think using the third gen decocker is dangerous I may say so.
but when I say "why", that is when the fallacy shows.
What the resource officer was doing, assuming a properly fit holster, was unremarkably normal, or it ought to be.
Ya think?
I divide the entire world into two subdivisions, my side of that gate and your side of that gate.
Yep....Open carry is sometimes required by state law for individuals other than LEO...If you were a "retired career security guard", in Florida, so would you.
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I wear shorts every single day for months on end....As well as everyone else in Central and South Florida. Anyone NOT wearing shorts here stands out. I also wear shirts like the Hawaiian shirts shown on a regular basis with a firearm or no firearm.
I'm happy for you. I used to live in New Port Richey. But in case you haven't noticed the whole rest of the world isn't Florida.
I took this picture in June either 2020 or 2021 in Colorado Springs. What do you see in this picture that might somewhat differentiate it from florida?
All that aside regardless of how they do things in Florida, where I'm at the majority of adults do not wear shorts. Not even in the summer.
So if I do wear shorts, as I said, I stand out from the crowd. That's something I would rather not do.
As for you, as I've said multiple times before it's your life. You make the decisions and you live with the consequences
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I was shopping at Krogers last week and noticed this guy open carrying. After scoping him out I wondered to myself why he was doing it. His "muffin" top overflowed the top of his belt and almost swallowed the gun up. IMHO, totally useless in any scenario.
Myself? I carry concealed.
Myself? I carry concealed.
At least one person got the joke. Sheeshe...it must be required for this sub forum... wound to tight, no sense of humor.
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