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Half of me feels like this:

dac1842 wrote:Carry concealed and you have no worries.

"Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats." - James F. Blake Just stay in the back and everything will be fine.

You know, I'm moving closer to OC every day just to protest the discrimination against gun owners. I'm moving closer to a view that any sign, 3006 or 3007 is reason to boycott. I'm not going to support moving to the back of the bus with regards to my 2A rights any longer. WHY should I be expected to disarm or coverup to walk into a place which is open to sell wares to the general public? That is discrimination is it not? [And by the way, Whataburger has no such policy against OC in any other state.]

Private property rights were used as an excuse for discrimination for years. They can no longer be used to discriminate against racial classes or sexual orientation and they shouldn't hold for gun owners exercising their GOD GIVEN rights either.
Let everyone chew on that for a bit.

The only way to desensitize is to carry.



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The other half of me wants to shrink into the background and agree with

dac1842 wrote:Carry concealed and you have no worries.

because several bad things - as pointed out in this thread - can happen when people see you've got a gun.
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Everyone has made good points. Let the debate carry on!!!!!!! I love it!!!

Some awesome posts and rebuttals on this thread.

Personally, I'm going to use open carry as an adjunct to Concealed Carry, i.e. leaving my shirt open in these hot summer months over a shoulder holster or belt holster and not having to worrying if the gun peaks out. I like the OC law for that alone. No one would see my gun unless they were really looking for it, but I do see the OPs point.

But until we reverse to the 70s and 80s when LEOs were mostly good people (I was one), I think it's best not to tempt fate. Too many idiot people out there just looking for a gun so they can falsely say "he threatened me!!" and lots of muscle head LEOs out there who believe "we're the po-leece and you're not so you can't have a gun" regardless of the law would be more than willing to lock you up and let the judge sort it out just to get a mark for the month.

Let me put it this way. I am a former LEO and even *I* don't trust most of the muscle heads out there now. Sad state of affairs really.