Texas Open Carry...Update

[caleb4387]

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Actually I think it is commonsense. Some people believe just having the pistol in sight gives them a sense of protection.

If you are OC in a bank, store, etc., when the shtf your options are severely limited. The BGs have already identified you as a danger, just like a uniformed guard or police officer. You must make a fast decision which can get you or someone else killed. What if you make the wrong decision, miss and accidentally shoot an innocent bystander? Plus if there is more than one BG on site that you have no identified? IMHO it is safer to CC and not stand out as a potential target. You maintain the option of committing or not when you decide.

False untrue and mythical

 

[Out West]

I do believe that the tactics used by the open carry lobby alienated a good portion of the population. Standing on street corners and walking into eateries with slung AR 15s put non-gun people on edge. It bugged me too.

It was bad marketing. If you want to sell an idea to somebody, don't scare them.

As a result, we get more 30.06 signs along with the 30.07 signs.

What's done is done. Likely most people will forget about it. Maybe over time the signs will fall down and never be put back up. Folks will forget why they put them up in the first place. (Except for stores selling booze. What a headache open carry created for these enterprises. An unintended consequence.)

 

[buzzkillbob]

I didn't care about the 30.07 sign on the door. I wasn't doing it, won't do it, don't care one way or the other about such signs.

I generally agree with you. Although I did open carry yesterday...from the range to the house...and then only because I could. If I was going to make any stops, I wouldn't have done it. No one needs to know I have a gun.

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

Story at Fox News today, titled "Open carry in Texas 'much ado about nothing,' despite doomsayers' predictions"

Not sure if I could post the link or not, so just search the title.

 

[DevilDog72]

As I posted on a couple of occasions now I have OC'd. I will admit I was kinda nervous the first time and when no one had a coronary, wasn't bothered by a LEO, did not get into a shoot out... all the things people, even some on this forum, have said would happen, did not happen. I know... some will opine that it is when not if... baloney. I maintain that the media has corrupted and shaped the narrative on the carriage of a side arm and has tried to convince Mr. and Mrs./Ms. John Q. Pubic of the , imagined, peril that society will face. I, for the life of me am not able to explain how paranoid people are portrayed to be, even some that proclaim to be 2nd A. supporters.
I still maintain it is my right to carry as I deem appropriate for the circumstance I will be in. I have the right to refuse to do business with those that would interfere with these rights. I believe the poor misguided public, given a chance and exposure, will find that I, we that carry, are not blood thirsty monsters bent on violence and depravity. In fact most people are too involved in their own affairs to really pay all that much attention to a person openly carrying a side arm, I, like a lot of you, am a hunter, I have witnessed wild life not give me a second glance when not on the hunt... but let me step into the wild bent on killing my game of choice and watch what takes place, the same game animals you saw the day before has vanished and those you do come across are on high alert.
I refuse to live in fear of what a BG might or might not do with regard to my presence open carrying my weapon of choice. As I continue to practice OC I will become more comfortable with it. As when I first started to CC, I was nervous thinking people could tell I was carrying a gun.... as time and use wore on I do not give it a second thought.
Texas will be just fine.... a much to do about nothing is ... well, correct.

 

[ladder13]

Much ado about nothing

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