If ANY form of open carry of LG becomes a restriction in the next session. Then, all of those that are demonstrating will have plenty of irritated gun owners to deal with.Beiruty wrote:If we allow or even tolerate more gun restrictions or banning OC of long rifles or replica black powder revovlers, then we are total failure as gun-right community. If this ever happens, it is only us to be blamed. I mean OC folks are trying to advance the OC right, if we do not support OC or any other gun rights then who are we?
Some of the Open carry people are gun toting extremist who have an issue paying for a license to carry. Yet, have no issue paying for a drivers license which could easily be argued is unconstitutional. The entire message of open carry is being lost when demonstrations include LG. The whole demonstration walks a fine line using a scare tactic. Why is it a scare tactic? Because people are smart enough to know that a LG serves absolutely no purpose in the city... Regardless if it is legal or not. You can say your educating all you want, but it's no different than someone telling another individual they will be going to hell if they don't accept Christ in their life. Scare tactics rarely work and the real message ends up being lost in how it's delivered.
If demonstrations are being done and they are truly wanting open carry then why not just carry black powder pistols? Does it not make make more sense that is what they truly want the public to be aware of. Not people walking around with LG, but individuals who will be walking around with handguns on their hips?