To me - yes. I still feel the whole open carry / constitutional carry thing will (may...) cause a huge backlash and play right into the hands of VPC and the Brady bunch. It is the 'law of unintended consequences'.terryg wrote:So, as more states adopt constitutional carry type laws, it suddenly makes it much easier to lump practically all shooting suspects into the "legally carrying" category. It won't matter then that these people could have/would have still committed the same crimes. The press will still show how they were completely legal up until the moment they pulled the trigger. Could this have a negative impact on the the concept of the armed citizen and on gun laws throughout the nation?
Exactly...jimlongley wrote:And of course, depending on statistics to help is a double edged blade, all of the statistics in the world fail when faced with the loud emotional bad apple that spoils the entire bushel.