REALteach4u
Regular Member
This is an argument I frequently hear from those who CC, and push CC:
An open-carrier in the room will immediately be shot by someone committing a crime.
Naturally, this leads to a "CITE!!!" response, hence why I ask today. Has this actually ever happened, anywhere? We've had an open-carrier disarmed and robbed in WI, but we've never had one shot and killed outright as soon as someone entered a room to commit a crime.
I'm beginning to think there is about as much truth to this rumor as there is to elves that make toys or elves that help throw a ring into a volcano.
First off, those who say "will" rather than "may become an easier target" are incorrect as your "cite" indicates. The situational awareness factor says it's a possibility to make yourself an easier, more like readily identifiable, potential target than others simply because you have an identifiable form of lethal response at your disposal.
Second, we have to factor in LEOs as they open carry daily. Those statistics simply cannot be ignored and they're cleary not representative as they are "uniformed officers" and that alone can draw bullets from a bad guy.
It's not just OC that draws attention. I've witnessed bad CC'ers that fail to dress properly to conceal and that too can draw the wrong attention, but attire and gear even with OC can be enough to allow firearm retention tactics to occur and keep the firearm under the control of the person it should be.
Something we keep forgetting is that our society is one that believes that everyone with a gun must be a bad person or they wouldn't have a gun. That has to change. Until it does, both options OC and CC have their places...time and place folks, time and place.
Be safe!