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Lol, so I guess you are familiar with this process too eh??
Quite a few people do tend to make that the next question. Except, I've noticed that MOST of these people tend to word it as "OH, so you have your permit?", without specifying concealed or open, as if you must have a permit to carry a gun outside of your house PERIOD.
Instead of answering, I respond with, "Well, in North Carolina you actually don't need any permit to Open Carry a handgun, you only need one if you are concealing it."
After that, there have been a few ppl who proceeded to ask if I had a concealed carry permit, and I told them that I did, but that I didn't usually put it to much use.
I stopped in Wal-Mart late tonight to pick up some ammo (see the Wal-Mart ammo thread....), and while I was waiting on the manager to grab the ammo case keys, I chatted with one of the late night stockers (a young african-american lady, very nice), who I went through this routine with, because she saw me OC'ing.
Started of course with "You must be a cop." I told her that I wasn't and that I was just a regular person like her, and from there the rest of the conversation started about how it always does.
She then told me she was very scared of guns, and I told her that we tend to be afraid of things that we are not familiar with, as this is just our human nature. She admitted that she was not familiar with guns, and had never even shot one before. I tried to explain to her that they can be viewed merely as a tool that protects us from the "bad guys". She said "yeah but the bad guys have guns too." And I said, "Yes ma'am they do, and imagine that one of those bad guys plans to rob you and then kill you so that you can't identify him, what are you going to do?" She said, "I don't know." I said, "Well I know what I would do." When she stopped right there and thought about what I had just said, I could tell that I at LEAST gave her something to think about for the rest of her nightshift.
Another educational OC experience, as I seem to have more and more of these nowadays..
Brandon