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bdickens wrote:Oh, no. Not the CHL badge!

Want one! Want one!!

MBGuy wrote:My point is that I sincerely doubt that we're all of a sudden going to see a bunch of open carry in restaurants, stores, etc. For all the people that talk the talk, very few are going to walk the walk. What it would do is add convenience to us that mostly conceal by not having to constantly worry about it. Heck, license wise, do as Tennessee. The license there is handgun carry, open or concealed, you pick. I really think that this is a right that we should get back

When you really think about it, it isn't 'a right' at all.

One does not have to ask permission to exercise 'a right'.

I don't need a licence to breathe, or to eat, or to drink water.

When you need to ask the state's permission to do something, that act is not a right; it is a privilege.

It's interesting to read quite often the caveat, 'sure, we all want to keep guns out of the hands of bad guys ...'

Well last time I looked, the II Amendment was pretty simple ...

'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed'

Since when did criminals, drug users and the insane cease to be part of 'the people' ?

I don't have a suitable answer to that question, BTW.

Isn't it all about personal choice? Isn't it about saying to those who want to OC, 'I accept your choice. I just don't want to do it' ? Just like everyone has the right to carry a concealed weapon or to not have anything to with guns. It's up to them.

Personally, if TX ever passed an OC law, I would not use it, for the same reason that if I were a karate fourth dan, I wouldn't wear a T-shirt proclaiming that fact.

If you're in a restaurant or a shop where a robber walks in and sees a T-shirt with '4th Dan Shotokan' on it, you can bet that you're going to be the focus of his attention until he gets out of there.

By the same token, if I'm sitting dining with family with a 1911 on my hip, and some BG walks in intent on robbing the place, he's either going to watch me very closely, or else just dispense with the threat right away by blowing my head off.

As others have said: surprise is a crucial element of self defence.