Open carry is stupid, you scare way to many people. I carry concealed to stay out of trouble.
Yeah, let me tell you about someone I "scared" recently. I open carried at the local city council meeting on January 2nd:
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At 3:25 in the above video, you will meet Mr. Shane Hoffmire. At 5:50 in the above video you will meet me.
After two more topics were fully discussed in the meeting, and about 1/2 hour later, we get to meet Mr. Shane Hoffmire again:
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At 5:00 minutes into the video above, Mr. Hoffmire tells us how afraid he was. At 6:05 you get to see one city council member's response.
So, fast forward to February 5th city council meeting. On electronic file page 13 of this document:
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You will get to read how fearful Mr. Shane Hoffmire is. So fearful, in fact, that at the meeting of the City Council on February 5th we get to meet him again:
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He is at 10:50. And then Ms. Pam Fick afterwards. Yeah, these are the people that we scare with our guns. So afraid that they don't call 911. They don't run away in terror. Instead they stand on their soapboxes, often right in the presence of those carrying guns, and tell us how their right to feel safe in public overrides our right to feel safe in public. And the result?
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I open carry all the time in Washington. 99% of the public either doesn't notice, don't show any indication that they notice, make a positive sign or comment about the gun, or will come up to me and ask an honest question about the law and sometimes about what they would have to do to carry a gun. 1% will have a negative reaction and the vast majority and most vehement of the negative reactions comes from people who just can't resist telling me that they have a concealed pistol license, that they carry their gun concealed, and so should I.
That being said, I do have to agree with SR40C:
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