Sir Swiftus Funkellwerk
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Have you EVER run into ANY PROBLEMS while open carrying in Detroit?
Have you EVER run into ANY PROBLEMS while open carrying in Detroit?
Don't see why not. No more chance of being a target there due to the weapon in plain sight than anywhere else in the country.
This subject is not worth arguing over, but........I did throw Chicago in with Detroit, right or wrong. So by your statement it is safe to assume that Chitown and Detroit aren't any more dangerous or have higher gun crime then any other large city! These cities and their crime stats are not somewhat unique?
I am not against "open carry". I just think that "situational awareness" would be something to consider. That said I am not going there even if I can by a house for a dollar!
docmath>>>>> Makes sense to me!
There is no tactical advantage to open carry, if anything you guarantee someone is going to shoot first if their intention is to rob you after seeing your openly carried firearm.
Perhaps the most convincing argument for open carry isn't the amount of incidents reported/researchable where open carry has been reported to deter a criminal.... but actually is the absence of incidents reported where open carry has NOT been reported to deter a criminal.It would be interesting to see, beyond conjecture on both sides of this open v. concealed argument, some data on it. Is open carry a deterrent? Under what circumstances (e.g., Detroit v. somewhere else)? Same for concealed carry? I do not recall if John Lott's work on the "More Guns, Less Crime" idea ever looked at the relationship among crime rates and open/concealed carry. Need to reread it. Are there "armed citizen" case reports that support one idea or the other or can tell us when one might be preferable?
Certainly with regard to presentation there is going to be a difference, although I would also suggest that with adequate situational awareness, the difference in presentation time - at least for me - is on average a matter of a tenth of a second. Significant? Perhaps. But if an assault is in close quarters (suggesting a failure in SA) would an assailant be more prepared to preempt or foul the draw of someone they knew to be carrying or would they move on to another target? How does the situation change this?
We do not have open carry here, so for me for now it is a moot point, more an academic exercise. If we did, I am not sure whether I would do so or not and have yet to have to make the decision.
This subject is not worth arguing over, but........I did throw Chicago in with Detroit, right or wrong. So by your statement it is safe to assume that Chitown and Detroit aren't any more dangerous or have higher gun crime then any other large city! These cities and their crime stats are not somewhat unique?
I am not against "open carry". I just think that "situational awareness" would be something to consider. That said I am not going there even if I can by a house for a dollar! docmath>>>>> Makes sense to me!