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Here’s how it works for me, I want to see OC in Texas…but that doesn’t mean I would OC all the time in public.

But the reasons I would chose not to OC in a given situation do not include worries about a snatch or concerns about losing tactical advantage. Notice I didn’t say those aren’t valid, they are. But they just don’t rise to the level of probability that makes them a major concern for me. The same is true about being harassed by the police.

I would like to have OC for convenience reasons. It would be nice to get out of the car and then put on my cover garment. When I’m in a restaurant that’s a little warm to me I would like to take the cover garment off. When I cross the main road to get to my cattle, it would be nice not to have to put on cover to stay compliant with the law, or when I’m filling my gas tank at the local station, or walking into the little country store I frequent, or the feed store.

In any of those situations it’s possible someone could attempt a snatch, but I firmly believe the likelihood of it happening is small enough it doesn’t need to drive my actions. If I let every “possible� negative drive my life, I would never go out of my house because bad things could happen…I couldn’t eat any food since it could be bad for me…I couldn’t even breath since the air could be tainted…let’s not even talk about driving a car!

Until we have OC and many folks carry, we won’t have a statistically significant population that will allow us to actually define the probabilities…until then all discussions on pro’s and con’s are just speculation…good to have and we should continue them…but they’re still just speculation.