re: #62 jaunte

Could it also be why there’s suddenly a drive for “open carry”? It isn’t enough to simply own a gun and show them off for those who may appreciate it. Now it must be brandished in places where people have reason to think that some gun-toter just might be interested in shooting up the place. In an urban setting, seeing someone with a long gun come into a public place-the survival instinct is to flee if one can: either a robbery is about to take place, or one of those things that will end up with bullets flying all over the place. Trying to normalize this is disadvantaging those people.

So it’s an ego thing, not a security thing. Keep it at home unless its a business reason to carry openly, or concealed.