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rizzo wrote: ↑May 14th, 2018, 10:41 pm I support all liberty, so carry however you want. That said, I believe that open carry (assuming you are of age to CCW) serves little functional/defensive purpose, and may instead hurt more than it helps.

Change my mind.

rizzo wrote: ↑May 14th, 2018, 10:41 pm I support all liberty, so carry however you want. That said, I believe that open carry (assuming you are of age to CCW) serves little functional/defensive purpose, and may instead hurt more than it helps.

Change my mind.

Doc Holliday wrote: ↑February 24th, 2019, 6:12 pm How about Open Carrying while wearing a MAGA hat? Anyone? No takers?

Boriqua wrote: ↑February 25th, 2019, 2:26 pm

rizzo wrote: ↑May 14th, 2018, 10:41 pm I support all liberty, so carry however you want. That said, I believe that open carry (assuming you are of age to CCW) serves little functional/defensive purpose, and may instead hurt more than it helps.

Change my mind.

I open carried when I used to walk my dog in the evening and I may when hiking but generally don't prefer to open carry for a bunch of reasons and none related to making others worried.

Having said that .. there is absolutely an advantage to being able to draw from open carry in a defensive situation. Practice all you like it is still another step to retrieve a concealed firearm.

I am not sure what you mean by "hurts more than helps" Hurts what, helps what?

I am not without prejudices and not nearly perfect enough to not come to pre conceived notions about people but it is rarely if ever about accessories. Recently passed a guy who was clean and dressed nicely, not suit but looked like a contractor, in front of Lowes and he was carrying OWB on the hip. Except for noting it and trying to see what he was carrying and in what .. No alarm bells went off and I am originally from NYC!

Saw a guy crossing the street at broadway that looked like one of those meth head zombies with open leather vest and no shirt, pants hanging down and carrying a heavy revolver in an old nylon droppy holster and thought he was a skell.
He hurts the gun community along with several other communities he might lay claim to because he is a skell, not because he carries a gun openly.

With all that said .. gun ownership shouldn't be about a popularity contest and if Skell boy is not prohibited and just looks nasty .. he has every right to carry as he pleases.

Once the gun community makes it a popularity contest we have lost. It is no longer about the RIGHT to own but how unintimdating we can look to anti gunners and that is far from the point.

CC2058 wrote: ↑January 22nd, 2020, 7:41 am If you are observant of the activities going on around you, then what advantage have you given up? In martial arts, military and law enforcement training you are told to be a hard target, and given examples of what to do. Head on a swivel, park in well lighted areas, etc etc. Also engrained right equipment for the task.