dan dan the XD40 man wrote:Me thinks maybe we need an "open carry is bad, m'kay" subforum, to compliment the "open carry" subforum, and give all the naysayers and sky is falling types a place of their own to share their scare tacticks, dire warnings, and finger shaking amongst themselves.
This thread seems akin to going into the "women's" subforum and posting all of the negative reasoning about why females shouldnt carry.
I think the point of the thread is that actions have consequences. Therefore, we ought to be wise in our choices.
If we really want to "educate" the public, and perhaps win some hearts and minds, we may want to consider more carefully how we go about that. There's a time to be "in your face" and over the top, and there's a time to be wise.
Starbucks was cordial to open carry. That's pretty hard to beat--a major, popular, nationwide chain--what an opportunity to demonstrate that those of us who choose to carry firearms are just normal, responsible citizens. Now it's gone. Jack-in-the-Box, another major chain, another open-carry-friendly policy...gone.
This is not about "open carry is bad". This is about "offending our neighbor unnecessarily" is not going to produce the sort of results we're hoping for.