Packing in public: Gun owners tired of hiding their weapons embrace ‘open carry’
Those who wear their guns in full sight are part of a fledgling movement to make a firearm a common accessory.
Hmmmm. The Chief likes it!
Very interesting that this piece about pieces is in the generally leftish L.A. Times…and it’s not treated negatively…although they do of course get in the obligatory cautionary anecdote about some dork who decided to turn a shotgun against the police when they questioned him walking down the street with it.
Not a biggie…IMHO, the dork got what he deserved when the law returned fire and established the perp’s eligibility for the Darwin Award.
The dork probably wasn’t legally able to even own a firearm, let alone carry it under any circumstances, sounds like a nutjob through and through, looking for a “suicide by cop”.
I tend to agree with Robert Heinlein that “an armed society is a polite society”.
I’ve never known a “real” cop (working cop, not a political hack) to ever object to open carry. I’m licensed to carry concealed and haven’t made it a point to open carry but sometimes it’s just more comfortable. It might be worth doing more often, if just as a political statement.