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I am somewhat neutral on the idea of open carry. Not because I don't have opinions on it, but because I am not able to sort out potential ramifications of it.

To make it short, I do not think the State would pass an unlicensed open carry. We don't even have an unlicensed concealed carry. However, I would support open carry either with or without a license, just to further the cause of RKBA. I cast my vote this way.

I can say that I would personally be alarmed if I saw a lot of yahoo's walking around with an unlicensed open carry. I have been shooting in some form or another since I was six, so for me that's over fifty years of being around guns of some sort. I shot competition in ROTC in high school in the sixties (for those that can remember we could have guns in high school back then). I qualified on M1, M14, M16 and 30 cal courtesy of US Army in '68 at Fort Polk (I was not in the Army). I can truly say, that not everyone who is able to purchase a weapon, should be allowed to be near a weapon. I respect their individual right to have that firearm, but I would prefer to not be around them.