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The strength of open carriers nation wide can't be measured in daily OCers yet. What needs to happen is more police departments need to get educated. As this happens, more gun owners will jump out of the woodwork. People are afraid of police departments in many states, and this is why OCing is having trouble becoming common again.
The more cops learn they will get sued if they mess with us, the more logarithmically it will become popularized. The more the police know it's legal, the more people will do it. The more people do it, the more people will see it, and decide to do it too.
With a few small exceptions, the national news media isn't going to inform everyone for us, so the job of educating police and indeed everyone else is for those of us who open carry as much as possible.
Lately, I have become very interested in Dave Ridley style litter clean ups on crowded roads that go through many cities, because of the potential for extreme visibility and indeed having the cops called on us, causing them to get educated. I think the best way to go is pick an area people are afraid to OC in, then show up in large numbers and do it in front of everyone. I encourage everyone who legally can to do this form of activism.
