Gun Grabbers In A Tizzy Over Open Carry

By Tom Knighton

I’m not a huge fan of open carry. I know some of you are and I respect your decision to carry openly. I know some people carry openly because their states allow that without a permit and so that’s how they’ll carry. I respect that decision too. In fact, I respect your decision to carry however the hell you want to carry, truth be told.

Yet I’m not a fan of open carry on a personal level.

What I’m less of a fan of, though, is the hysterics that I see from anti-gunners over the idea of open carry.

The open carry of firearms is primarily performance. Whether the performer’s goal is to dramatize extreme gun rights, intimidate others, trigger the libs or cast oneself as the avenging hero in a miniseries of the mind, the practice is not just an assault on public safety. It’s a theater of the absurd.

Oh, goodie. It’s going to be one of those opinion pieces.

I’m so thrilled.

There is no evidence that open carry makes any corner of society safer. There is, on the contrary, impressive evidence that carrying firearms increases aggression and gun …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms