Originally Posted by NavyLCDR View Post
The best defense is for the criminal to have a reason to never attack you to begin with.
By that logic the best defense is to never leave the house.
But then again, you have the home invaders and burglars, etc. to deal with. Get a sign for your front porch "Guarded by Glock?"
Move to the wilderness and become a hermit. Then the FBI will seek you out to punish your potentially disloyal inner thoughts.
Good luck, Mr. Paranoid.
Let me present some food for thought...
I'm an old fart.. a disabled old fart. Now suppose I park in the handicapped spot at the local Wal Mart and another old fart pulls in and parks next to me. We both get out of our cars at the same time....
There is a bad guy a couple of cars away looking for someone to attack/rob... and he sees both me and that other old fart get out of our cars....
And that bad guy sees I'm wearing a gun right there in plain sight and the bad guy doesn't see any guns on the other old fart.
Which old fart do you think the bad guy will choose to attack/rob?
Now if you say it would likely be the other old fart that doesn't have any guns in plain sight... which do you think is better? For me to not be attacked at all and go on with my day totally unharmed and not even inconvenienced because the bad guy saw my gun? Or for the other old fart to be attacked and have to pull out his concealed gun to fight off the attack and then deal with the police, the judicial system, and the bad guy's family/friends? Which would you prefer happen to you during a normal day?
But if you want to go the route of saying I would be attacked so the bad guy can take my gun... or that I would be shot first... be prepared because I, and perhaps a few others, will ask you to present cites and/or links to more than just the very few rare incidents known to have happened during the DECADES people have been open carrying in just Arizona alone.
Oh... and I sorta do have a sign outside my house for any and all burglers/home invaders. ME open carrying as I mow the lawn/get the mail/sit outside in the summer watching the burglers/home invaders drive by.... so what do you have at your house that tells bad guys it would be easier to just rob/invade one of your neighbors? A hidden gun no one can see so no one knows it's there?
By the way... I've noticed that it seems those who don't like open carry will start out commenting in a polite and intelligent manner but will quickly melt down into spewing ridicule and insults when their arguments are not greeted with the amount of adoration they think all sermons from the mount they deign to grace those poor unfortunate misguided open carriers should be honored to receive. Actually, to open carriers and also to anyone with even a scrap of intelligence, that whole process is not only grindingly tiresome but is just so annoyingly..... predictable.