What Is The Big Deal?

By James Rummel

A long as I have been alive, it has been legal in my home state of Ohio to “open carry.” This phrase means nothing more than it is not against the law to carry a loaded gun around in public, as long as it is neither concealed from view nor brandished about in a threatening manner.

That means one could do this ….

But one could not do this …

It has been this way for my entire half century, even before licenses to carry concealed firearms were issued.

Oh, there are other restrictions. You couldn’t drive around with a loaded gun in the car, couldn’t try to enter courthouses or certain places of business, etc etc. Stuff like that. But the main point is that it never caused a problem, and I’m somewhat at a loss as to how it could cause any sort of crises.

Now that I have moved to Texas, I was a bit surprised to find that the Lone Star State does not have legal open carry. This is going to change in a week or so as soon as 2016 starts, but news articles like this are …Read the Rest

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