This was just posted over on MGO, makes my point beautifully.
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cantpickone
It was only about a year ago that I heard Wayne Co Sheriff Benny Napoleon on WCHB taking questions from listeners that were calling in live.
A caller asked a question related to open carry. Sheriff Napoleon had obviously never even heard of open carry and addressed the caller in an arrogant tone as though the caller was a big dummy.
He said that Michigan has a concealed carry law and concealed means concealed. He said that open carry is and always was illegal and a felony in Michigan.
If the Sheriff of the most populous County in Michigan is this ignorant about open carry, it goes to show how far the open carry movement has to go in educating the general public.
I'm sure that many citizens still believe that seeing someone in possession of a gun other than when hunting is a reason to call the police and would expect a swat team to show up.
Through contacts such as the one in this thread, police officers will gradually learn that open carry is not either a crime or a reason to dispatch police to the scene.
I don't open carry, but I support the efforts of those that are doing so responsibly to desensitize to public.