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LSUTiger wrote:

hovercat wrote:I wish that the amendment would stay. The big advantage I see in OC is normalizing seeing a citizen carrying a firearm. As a practical, effective, but out of the way tool. I do not want places like Austin to be questioning OC, because that is detrimental. And even a lawsuit to stop continuous harassment is not good PR.
I would rather see OC perceived as the mark of someone who society has determined, by issuing a license, to be trustworthy. Unlicensed OC will wait until that perception builds.
If OC is often stopped, to the point where it is avoided, it will become like long gun OC. Not done in polite society. I like the LGOC law, use it about every year walking from camp down the road to where I enter the woods hunting public land. But it is unnecessary in the city, would be an uncomfortable PITA, and if I crave attention wearing a clown hat is easier. I do not want OC to be seen that way, and police stops, and public avoidance, would make it that way.

I agree with your assessment of OC as a way to normalize seeing guns and feel your frustration.

I don't see OC as a tactical disadvantage at all rather a deterrent. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I will exercise caution in when and where I OC just to see how things will pan out but I plan to do it as often as possible. I think fundamentally you are playing the odds that most criminals are not 100% crazy and will simply choose another target, thus preventing an encounter, at least with you, which is the goal.

The tiny minuscule % of people crazy enough to attack the normal guy with the gun or police, are the people you can't do much about anyway. There is a reason police open carry, to project force and that projection of force is used as a deterrence. So OC for me and you, as a deterrent is no different than police. Yes some police get attacked, but like I said there are some that are at a level of crazy that is hard to combat no matter what you do.

I am whole heartedly for anything than furthers the original founding fathers idea of 2A "shall not be infringed", I think most of us on the forum are, but I am happy to "take what I can get" and then keep trying to get more as OC becomes normalized. But for it to become normalized it has to become law first in some form.

hovercat wrote:I wish that the amendment would stay. The big advantage I see in OC is normalizing seeing a citizen carrying a firearm. As a practical, effective, but out of the way tool. I do not want places like Austin to be questioning OC, because that is detrimental. And even a lawsuit to stop continuous harassment is not good PR.
I would rather see OC perceived as the mark of someone who society has determined, by issuing a license, to be trustworthy. Unlicensed OC will wait until that perception builds.
If OC is often stopped, to the point where it is avoided, it will become like long gun OC. Not done in polite society. I like the LGOC law, use it about every year walking from camp down the road to where I enter the woods hunting public land. But it is unnecessary in the city, would be an uncomfortable PITA, and if I crave attention wearing a clown hat is easier. I do not want OC to be seen that way, and police stops, and public avoidance, would make it that way.