I agree with Tuckers mom....the element of surprise is gone and now that the bad guy/girl now knows you have a gun and might use it against you.
I prefer concealed.
Surprise is not a defensive tactic. If you have to draw your gun you've already lost the element of surprise because you're reacting to an attack
Either is legal in my state (Nebraska). I CCW most of the time since my manhood does just fine behind my zipper and I don't need to carry a substitute for it on my hip.
Using a firearm is never defensive even if you're doing it to protect yourself. Nobody uses a gun to deflect incoming bullets.
I actually agree with you on that. However, firearms can also be deterrence. Deterrence is only effective if the enemy knows about. Given two targets within fairly close proximity to each other that are relatively equal to each other with the exception that one is known to be hardened by the presence of a firearm and one is not - the choice of which target to attack is clear, given the ease with which a firearm can be obtained by the criminal by many means other than taking from an armed person that can kill them in the process.
While I personally dont care how one carries, as long as you carry, a hypothetical question does come to mind.
Suppose all CCWs were revoked and no longer available, would those of you opposed to OC no longer carry?
Now dont cloud the question with particulars of state law such as OC not being legal, or not legal without a permit. Just suppose it was legal and your only method of carry, because folks that is the only method of carry protected by the 2A.
"Hardened"??? As in armor protection??
Given the choice of a target that is unarmed and a target that is armed (and thus can kill you easier), only a fool would first shoot the unarmed one. This is common sense at its most basic level.
I know they say that the element of surprise is gone but that isn't completely true.
Unless you have your strong side towards people they most likely won't even see it. And unless they are looking at it it seems that most don't even notice it right away at least.
Here are my thoughts from watching that tape:
Talk about a cold-blooded, fast attack where an innocent was shot without warning! Unbelievable. Situational awareness is really important. Luck doesn’t hurt, either.
Open carry was an advantage in this case because in the video I saw just how fast the GO managed to draw his gun and begin to return fire. You always hear about how open carry is so bad tactically – you’ll be the first one shot, etc. Oh, yeah? The GO had a HUGE gun in plain sight and he was NOT shot. Who got shot first? An unarmed store owner.
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