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I think I'll post this in a seperate thread so as to not hijack anything.

sugar land dave wrote: I don't understand the infatuation some people have that want to walk around showing their gun, as if saying look at me. It borders on bizarre. As long as one is able to carry, who cares.

I don't understand it either, but we have the same problem with Amateur Radio operators who provide backup communications for emergencies and blast around town with lights and sirens on their personal vehicles and several ham radios dangling from their belts shouting, "QSL...QSL...QSL." (Message received...for you non hams)

There is some doubt in my mind that the elevator stops at every floor of such individuals.

Personally I'm going to be a happy camper if I never have to be part of another lights and sirens ride! By far those have been the closest I've ever come to death.

I prefer not putting a target on me for the bad guy to choose me as the first victim.

Not arguing the point, but I am just curious if anyone has hard evidence, from other states that allow open carry, that anyone has been specifically targeted? I hear this all the time. If it is a real risk, I think we should quantify it somehow. How many have actually been proven to have been targeted compared to how many carry? 1% 5% 25%?

canvasbck wrote:As someone who will be occassionally OCing, I don't see the problem here. I'm embarassed by the militant OC supporters.

IF I happen to be open carrying AND I decide I want to stop in at WB (highly unlikely that those two things will happen simultaneously, but whatever), just UNTUCK and cover, problem solved. I can tuck my shirt back in while in the parking lot if I so choose.

Must be nice! You young whippersnappers can wear a shirt TUCKED IN!

Of course with our UNTUCKED HAWAIIAN shirts on our once glorious physiques, we geezers could conceal a mortar.

I'm running out of "fast" burger joints. Our local Burger King got caught swiping HPD officers debit cards and skimming their bank accounts. Chains and padlocks followed. Then remodeling, inside and out, tried to erase the stigma. The franchise got revoked. Now they are open again, but nobody goes there.

My Whataburger trips are always to the drive up, although like others, I have to check my order carefully before driving off.