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Originally Posted by glatt
... Yes, it's more burdensome to get a concealed carry permit, so there are logistical reasons for doing an open carry, but the point of open carry is that all can see that you are armed. It's about being noticed. ...
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Originally Posted by henry quirk
Seems to me, there are only two reasons -- if you're not law enforcement -- to openly carry a firearm.
1-You live in a place or circumstance where there is a great likelihood you'll need to self-defend.
2-You desperately want to be noticed.
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To hear glatt tell it, the advantages of not having to draw a weapon from a concealed position on your body, when there's a great likelihood you'll need to self defend, does not exist. Only your second rationale exists.
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Originally Posted by henry quirk
... As for concealed carry: I'm against it. If Joe wants to carry (for whatever reason) let it be openly.
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To hear glatt tell it, being opposed to concealed carry as a rationale for open carry does not exist. Only your second rationale exists.
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Originally Posted by glatt
... Yes, it's more burdensome to get a concealed carry permit, so there are logistical reasons for doing an open carry, but the point of open carry is that all can see that you are armed. It's about being noticed.
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To hear glatt tell it, a concealed carry permit, some states in which all associated costs can equal a week's worth of groceries effectively depriving poor people of their 2nd Amendment rights, will be called just a logistical burden; so, it might as well not exist either.
Well it seems that glatt has summarily dismissed anything other than "the point of open carry is that all can see that you are armed" which now allows him to equate that solely with "It's about being noticed".
Let's not dare get into the fact that military and police open carry even when they DON'T want to be seen, that the advantages of the technique increases their chances of survival, and that civilians may want to follow suit to save themselves and their families. No no no, don't consider adversity, transparency, technique and tactics, or anything else glatt knows nothing about relative to carrying firearms. Civilians aren't supposed think about these things: they're just supposed to be ... like him ... not an attention whore!
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Originally Posted by glatt
People doing open carry are attention whores.
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Originally Posted by glatt
... Of course. I made a very blanket statement that is easily proven wrong with any number of examples. ...
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Of course, of course.
