I carry a gun. Inside my waistband and under a shirt like a fucking adult. Open carrying out in the wilderness, for work or on a range is understandable.
Randos carrying in public is pure cringe and is super counterproductive to the goal of practical responsible gun ownership as I see it.
Everyone else did a good job of listing the rest so I figured it was implied so here goes.
Open carrying makes you a bigger target to hypothetical mass shooters because you are the biggest threat to them and will be targeted first before you can react.
It makes you a bigger target to hypothetical robbers who use your weapon to size up how much money you have/make.
It is clearly visible so the chance of social interaction goes up (see comic)
It puts guns as front and center as your whole personality. Showing anything as your whole personality is not great, but something controversial and divisive is worse.
And nearly all of this is avoidable by simply concealed carrying if you want to be armed.
Yeah, being a first responder really changed my perspective on a lot of “safe” areas" and how far help is.
When you have one lone deputy in your entire county for a good portion of the night (and frequently only 2-3 cars during the day), and state is just on call, not patrolling… you can easily be 45 minutes out from LEO, that’s been a very long wait before…
I carry a gun. Inside my waistband and under a shirt like a fucking adult. Open carrying out in the wilderness, for work or on a range is understandable.
Randos carrying in public is pure cringe and is super counterproductive to the goal of practical responsible gun ownership as I see it.
of all the motives to be against open carry, putting cringe as one of them is … cringe.
Everyone else did a good job of listing the rest so I figured it was implied so here goes.
Open carrying makes you a bigger target to hypothetical mass shooters because you are the biggest threat to them and will be targeted first before you can react.
It makes you a bigger target to hypothetical robbers who use your weapon to size up how much money you have/make.
It is clearly visible so the chance of social interaction goes up (see comic)
It puts guns as front and center as your whole personality. Showing anything as your whole personality is not great, but something controversial and divisive is worse.
And nearly all of this is avoidable by simply concealed carrying if you want to be armed.
yeah as I said, a lot of good motives, mentioning cringe is childish
If you say so
“Randos carrying in public is pure cringe” they said, after saying they carry in public just in a concealed manner.
You know what I mean, open carrying.
Concealed carry isn’t a fashion statement or anything political. It’s a personal choice not something to intimidate or rub in people’s faces.
I have the legal ability to, I have the training to do it safely, so I do. That’s literally the extent of it.
You believing that your country is so unsafe that you need to have a weapon on you at all times, that’s political as fuck, even if you conceal it.
Hell, the second you have to bend to pick up something you’re not fooling anyone anymore, we all know you’re carrying.
Umm yeah we live in a society. I worked as a firefighter for years. I know the response times for police and fire/ems and they aren’t that good.
Appendix solves a lot of this. Printing can happen but a ton of it is easily avoided
Yeah, being a first responder really changed my perspective on a lot of “safe” areas" and how far help is.
When you have one lone deputy in your entire county for a good portion of the night (and frequently only 2-3 cars during the day), and state is just on call, not patrolling… you can easily be 45 minutes out from LEO, that’s been a very long wait before…