stingeragent wrote:OCT maybe opened a few eyes. They are not the main culprit. The media attention and the LEO presentations are what prompted this. I have spoken to like 30 or 40 people right before OC became law, and they had no clue that CHL even existed. They were panicked that people were gonna start walking around with guns now, and I attempted to explain people have already been doing that for 20 years now, and they just had no clue. If you remove OCT and pretend the group never existed, this issue still would have gotten the same amount of media attention, LEO presentations, as they had to let the masses know what the new law is, so that every single person carrying a gun wouldn't get twelve 911 calls made on them daily. It just so happens the ignorant masses had no clue about concealed carry, until the media/ police let them know. If you have no interest in guns, you probably don't go look at options that will allow you to legally carry, which is why a lot of people previously were uninformed.
Do you not believe certain groups provided fodder for the media? The media just ran with the visual fodder provided for them.