OPEN CARRY IN A CONCEALED CARRY STATE

[wsr]

I don't see it as a challenge. Just advice to a couple of open carry clowns. A true fact of life, is that open carry DOES lead to dis-arming by other individuals.

Obviously you don't understand the process of being "interviewed"
To make his point it has to have a element of threat or its just stupid idle chit-chat

As for the disarming....let me guess you saw on justified LOL

 

[Donn]

Much as I dislike adding my 2 cents on this volatile subject, I have to agree with one part of the OP's treatise. Many, (not all), OC'ers I've encountered do have an attitude.

 

[wsr]

Much as I dislike adding my 2 cents on this volatile subject, I have to agree with one part of the OP's treatise. Many, (not all), OC'ers I've encountered do have an attitude.

Many do but on the flip side many anti OC people do also. When I get negative comments it is almost always from a FUDD who thinks carrying a gun for SD in any manner is wrong and is gonna ruin their ability to duck hunt or self righteous horribly concealed CCers with the same old... shot first...gun stolen...or my favorite "concealed means concealed" to which I respond that would make sense if I was printing but sense I am obviously OCing that's nothing more than a idiotic catch phrase...that usually ends the conversation

 

[Watchdog]

Just advice to a couple of open carry clowns.

Open carry clowns? We're talking about clowns now?

 

[Johnwye60]

i am trying to post a response to OP post, but all i can get out is 'wow'.
i know i am old, but we used to used the phrase 'dropping a dime on someone'. this was not a compliment. i carry concealed, thou we can open carry in CT. there is a new bill being proposed in CT (HB5408) to make it easier for a LEO to ask to see if a person has a permit - they want to remove the 'probable cause' wording. a lot of people see this as trying to harass folks into leaving their guns at home. i never thought it was my place in the world to tell others what to do.

 

[hangnoose]

SLOVENLY DRESSED IN TN?

How could you tell? When did Tn become so highbrow? Now if you need some slovenly lessons, come to a rural Walmart here in Fl and take notes. :

 

[cmort666]

How could you tell? When did Tn become so highbrow? Now if you need some slovenly lessons, come to a rural Walmart here in Fl and take notes. :

Or Marc's in NE Ohio.

Sometimes it looks like all the patrons in the bar at Mos Eisley spaceport decided to go grocery shopping at once...

 

[keith44spl]

Originally Posted by moosedog
I was shopping.......I walked up to one of them and while standing close to him in the number one position said "Do you know how easy it would be to snatch that gun from you?"

In all my years, it has never occurred to me that anyone would be so....Forward.

That feller may have had is hand wrapped around his back-up, for all anyone knows....

I've never had it happen to me...But then again I don't let men folk in my personal space.

I don't know what I'd do short of jest tellin' ya to "Go for it thar Spanky and see what happens..."


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On a lighter note, I just truly enjoy these threads....

There's a lot of like minded folks around here and a few not so like minded.

Kinda like one of them day time soap operas.


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[Mainsail]

I've been OCing for over ten years now. While I lived in Tacoma (named the most dangerous city in the PNW) I carried openly in a Serpa holster every single day. I carried all over town, and even into the Tacoma Mall a few times. I carried in convenience stores, parks, coffee shops, fast food, slow food, really any place a guy would regularly go; and that includes a coffee shop on Pacific Ave at the University. Of the thousands of hours of actual experience carrying openly, here's my take-away:

By a LARGE margin, all strangers who actually commented were completely supportive of OC. Seriously, total strangers expressing thanks or support.

I had TWO citizens who didn't appreciate OC; one merely wanted to debate firearms ownership (she believed only police and mil should own guns) and one who was attempting to get the police to come, but the dispatcher was telling her that she was not going to dispatch because no laws were being broken.

Almost ALL the people who post in forums that they prefer 'tactical surprise' or say you'll be shot first, are actually hiding the real reason they don't like OC that they're afraid or ashamed to admit. We've been around and around on those two issues and those arguments are easily refuted. They will not discuss it; they will post and run, or make some irrelevant distractor like popcorn or some such. They cannot support their position yet they'll foolishly keep making it.

I don't care one iota how someone chooses to carry, I'm as happy for the CCers as I am for the OCers. I find the discussion enlightening because of the above; people fabricating reasons why OC is bad but will not or cannot support it with any real argument.

I wrote this essay in 2009 and challenged anyone to write one refuting it. Seven years later nobody has tried. The Open Carry Argument

 

[Mainsail]

Much as I dislike adding my 2 cents on this volatile subject, I have to agree with one part of the OP's treatise. Many, (not all), OC'ers I've encountered do have an attitude.

I'm always polite to citizens and police officers. However, if you were hassling me 'under color of law' while I was behaving in a completely lawful manner, you'd get a world of attitude from me as well.

 

[redlevel]

"Go for it thar Spanky and see what happens..."




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Reminds me of what I heard a good ol' boy say at a Sattidy night dance once when another good ol' boy threatened to whup him: "Boy, my *** is just like a turnip patch. You can have a mess of it whenever you feel up to gathering it."

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Looks like we've pretty much covered the subject.