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tomneal wrote:EricS76

I oppose open carry for a few reasons. 1. You lose the advantage of everybody else, good and bad, not knowing you have a weapon. 2. There is the possibility of making yourself a target (shoot the guy with the gun first kind of BG thinking).

No offense, but on items 1 & 2
It's none of your business.

I am an informed adult and am in better position to decide when and where I will open carry. I could come up with dozens of scenarios where I (and many others on this board) would open carry (if it was legal).

The arguments you have used against open carry could be used against carrying in a fanny pack, wearing a "Shoot me first" / "Photo-Journalist" vest, or wearing an untucked and/or unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt.
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Tom
You're correct, it is none of my business. That's why I said those are reasons I oppose open carry, not reasons why I oppose open carry for YOU. I like having the advantage of not "showing my hand" to potential bad guys.

The comparison of open carry to carry in a fanny pack, vest and untucked hawaiian shirt is very weak at best. There is a very big difference between wearing a handgun in open view and having it concealed by any of those means. Yes, a person MAY have a weapon in a fanny pack or behind a photographer vest, but you couldn't say for sure. Open carrying takes all the doubt away.

I oppose open carry for a few reasons. 1. You lose the advantage of everybody else, good and bad, not knowing you have a weapon. 2. There is the possibility of making yourself a target (shoot the guy with the gun first kind of BG thinking). 3. Having to deal with unwanted attention from anti's, LEO's, ect. 4. What Charles said about the 30.06 signs. You can bet that if open carry was allowed, the 30.06 signs would go up like crazy. I see very few pros and many cons to open carry, besides the ever-present "because it's our right to".