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Hello everybody. My first post here.
I took a look at the wikipedia entry. It looks excellent, but I think it can be fixed to remove that NPOV tag. I was going to do it but something needs to be done to the map which I cannot access.
Please consider modifying the legend, changing the words "Gold Star" to "Unlicensed" (also, I would suggest changing the "Non Permissive Open Carry State" to "Not an Open Carry State" as the former is subject to possible misinterpretation).
In fact, if I may be so bold, you might go ahead and swap the green and gold (yellow) colors. Green generally means "go ahead" in a neutral interpretation, while yellow means "caution" and red "stop". I think that no one could dispute the neutrality of that selection of colors. Just a thought...
The other problem with the wiki is that the history section does not read neutral; for example it implies the low crime rate in the west is
due to open carry (a suggestion I agree with, but it ain't neutral). I would take most of that information and put it in a new section called "Supporting views" just above the existing "Opposition" (renamed "Opposing views"). Then limit the discussion in "Open Carry in History" to neutral statements such as how prevalent it was, and where, at what time.
BTW, I imagine an awful lot of work must have gone into that map, and I appreciate it. I am going to use it in a study of overall freedom in the U.S. that I am participating in, and I'm very glad you folks have done the grunt work to figure this information out.
Take a look at my site,
http://www.WyomingLibertyIndex.info , and also a favorite of mine,
http://www.FreeStateWyoming.org (including the forum there), if you are interested in freedom overall (which I suspect most folks here will be
). We had a nice long discussion about open carry in Wyoming
in this thread.