I have to say I find this a truly juvenile strawman caricature of those who are forthright in pressing the cause of self-defense and the 2A. The strides of the last 20 years that you mention were not made by people who kept their mouths shut. You have to exercise your rights and privileges at all levels, from the strategic (SCOTUS/Congresss) to the personal, if you want to keep them. (This, by the way, is why the left beat the pants off conservatives for years and years -- they understood this very well. Push the rights you support to the limits, and circumscribe the ones you don't in everyway possible, at every level).gregthehand wrote:"HEY HEY LOOK AT ME!!! I GET TO CARRY A GUN!!! YESSSSSSS AIN'T IT COOOOL?"
I really don't understand why some people go out of their way to mention or point out indirectly that they have a CHL and are armed. I mean I see it all the time. Calling to hotels before they check in and asking if they are "gun friendly". Calling around to apartments and asking the same. Emailing big corporations and saying they will sue if they don't take down the (non-applicable) sings. Whatever happened to concealed means concealed? Loose lips sink ships, that sort of thing. I see it all the time with people who say "Yeah I totally chewed out this manager at XYZ bussiness over there sign saying how wrong it was. They didn't even know it's not even legally binding." If it's toothless just walk by the dang thing! Why must you go out of your way to not only make a "point" but also expose the fact, even indirectly, that you are carrying.
Yes, concealed means concealed. It doesn't have to mean secret. I myself am choosy about who I directly reveal my status to. But writing a letter to USAA about their signs, who I pay good money to, about their 30.06 signs is hardly trying to boast how cool I am about having a CHL; that is a trivial characterization.