You mentioned a little of offending people.
Once many moons ago to offend meant to do something lewd nasty, or generally offensive to the sensibilities of a moral public at large. Today offending is having rights that others wish I didn't have? Where exactly did the train derail?
We have become a nation of cowards, offended at the sight of real men because we no longer as a nation wish to take that responsibility to be men. Today a man has morphed from one who takes the constitution seriously, has morals, and is unapologetic about such, into idiots who posture, run their mouths, and act like fools.
I don't give a Tinker's Dam about who I offend. I am dead tired of cry baby men who can't set their wives and children straight on what being a citizen and a man is.
If the are so offended then they need to move to Iran or a host of other countries where only the despots have guns. In a FREE country we do what we will, and those who pretend to be offended don't. But to control me because they have some inane view of freedom based on NOTHING but their imaginations and fantasies, is not freedom it is in fact tyranny.
Even on this site I see a number of people always trying to find a way to be politically correct or UBER sensitive to the FEELINGS of those who would have us jailed or killed if they got their way. I used to travel in those circles and if anyone thinks the hard core left is not beyond having us imprisoned for expressing our rights (if they could or had power to do so) then they need to get a clue.
We are at war in this country, it is a war on freedom, and we are loosing it despite all the grandiose predictions that some day it will get better. Those who hate freedom and our rights will never go away, or quit, yet many of us do. They have a religious fervor for oppression.
I am reminded back in the late 1970's I was reading about some Russian women who escaped the U.S.S.R. and were saddened by being here in the U.S.A., they complained that in Russia they only needed to make one choice in the store for butter, and in the USA it was too complicated trying to decide which brand to use. They said they liked it better when they were told what to buy, think and do.
We are becoming as a nation not unlike those Russian women.
If my carry of a gun or any other freedoms I have offends someone then too damn bad, as they offend me being so ignorant and spoiling my day with their stupidity.
I am unapologetic.
After a while, it can take a toll on you getting disapproving stares, same as it can take a toll on you cramming a handgun under your clothes. Just today I was in a restaurant OCing, and a family quietly decided to leave. I was in nice business casual type clothes, but my hair was a bit odd looking from having glasses in them, which may have contributed, and of course it's possible the family was just abnormally gun phobic. I had no good chance to engage them in conversation, they just left. I kept OCing for most of the visit, but put a jacket on while going to my car to grab something to show the person I was eating with. Not that it was the right or wrong thing to do, just that after over a thousand hours of urban open carry, I didn't feel like being an iconoclast at that moment.
Offending people is the sort of thing that can't always be helped, and you have to factor in every conceivable good vs bad when deciding how and even if to carry. But a lot of it boils down to mood. The totality of the circumstances and the totality of your experiences will decide how you feel about mode of carry. It's nothing more of less than a personal preference issue with artificial input from various laws and private property rules.
