re: Does anyone here open carry?

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fricked in the head

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That's basically my take on it as well. In theory, I think people have a right to do it. In practice, 90% of people who open carry are acting out / showing off, and it relates back to some psychological issue.

If openly carrying a gun were more widespread and less offensive to people, I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with that. I can't say for sure. It's neither widespread nor inoffensive in 2019 America, though.

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My SO carries a Glock and I forget he has it there. I’m scared to touch him with that.

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Is he trained to use it? If so, you’re quite safe.

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Is he trained to use it?

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Very


I’m jut scared of it. I own guns and shoot often but I still but a very healthy respect for them.

Ok. Milton is a historically rural area which had its own county, but was usurped by Fulton. It forms the north Fulton triumvirate of Alpharetta, John's Creek and Milton.

Coming back from MSY with my family, we stopped at Middendorf’s for lunch. OL Baw, his wife and two little kids sitting next to us. Dad has on polyester gym shorts, a tee shirt and big hog leg strapped to his leg eating catfish. I wonder who he thought was going to attack him in the middle of his seafood platter?

Seen a fella - looked to be around 40 at Sam's Denham - had a pistol strapped around his waist - he had to feel for it to draw - cause a big fat tummy had to be pulled back so he could find it.

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You mean might as well let the bad guy know who to shoot first?

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Maybe. This is always the debate that goes on among firearm enthusiasts. I don't really know where I stand on it because I don't know what the numbers say.

Argument A: If you concealed carry you have the element of surprise. If you open carry you become a target for either theft of your weapon or to eliminate the biggest threat to an ensuing crime(the one open carrying).

Argument B: If you conceal carry a criminal may be more likely to target you than if you would have otherwised open carried. Most criminals want easy targets. If you open carry youre not an easy target. In this case, the open carrying of the firearm acts as a deterrent to crime not only against yourself but to other potential victims around you, similar to having security guards at high risk areas like corner stores. There's no real expectation that the security guard is going to attempt to rescue somebody in a shootout but the hope is that just their presence, the criminal knowing they will meet force, can act as a deterrent to crime and then the criminal looks for a softer target.

Old crazy Nam veteran used to cat around holstering two stainless Ruger Redhawk 44 magnums- 1 on each side. The 7 1/2" barrels would slap the side of his chicken legs right about the knee cap area.

Accompanying the 2 hog legs would be a cutoff t-shirt with a pill capsule on it that said 20mg/Fukitol, a pair of Sunday's best cutoff jorts (with a damned good belt to hold up all that steel), and a pair of stained (albeit serviceable) whitewalker velcro-strapped tennis shoes.

He'd top it all off with a black, standard-issue "1st CAVALRY DIVISON/ VIETNAM VETERAN" cap; which pretty much summed up his already well-known persona: he was an old mf'er alright, but he was one BAD A** OLD MF'ER.

I always imagined that if at some point in times past he and another individual crossed paths, and other individual was "thinkin' about doin' som' stupid," then he'd of surely changed his outlook on life- and in a hurry- when he saw the above-mentioned lunatic/patriot carrying superior firepower that was armored with one dozen very capable freedom seeds.

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That is why I like XDM's tug on that trigger all you want but if the grip safety isn't depressed nothing is happening.

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Grip safetys are awesome but it violates the KISS principal. If my wife would let me afford one Id get an H&K P7.