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I will agree that a lot of it is appearances. I was wearing a suit one day a couple years ago with my gun in a comp-tac paddle holster, I was at restaurant in clear lake when a young waiter managed to lose a tray that had a pot of nice warm coffee all over a couple sitting in a booth. Needless to say both of them quickly lost part of their clothing trying to get it off of them as it was burning their skin. After it was all over and the lady was trying to recover and cover herself up I insticively gave her my jacket and exposed my weapon. While the manager was standing there I explained my reasoning and he said no problem. Along came an ambulance and the police with it, the HPD officer naturally talked to the manager before he got to the lady (where I and the EMT's were standing) and he told him the situation. Turns out both the manager and the officer were gun friendly and the only words said about my weapon were as the EMT's were clearing the scene and I got my coat back they both thanked me for "donating my coat" (as it was basically ruined) and if I wouldn't mind putting my gun in my car for the remainder of the meal so I wouldn't "scare anyone."

Point being no one in the restaurant freaked out at the sight of a firearm as we were waiting around for the situation to end (a good 30 minutes). I can only imagine what might have transpired if i were to have been wearing jeans a AC/DC tshirt and a banditos vest that I would have loaned to her.