In keeping with my post above, I'm going to throw another name in the ring. Someone who has been quietly plugging away to make Open Carry the norm as opposed to the unusual, and who may be responsible for more people accepting OC without panicing and making MWAG calls than anybody else.
Our own hlh.
Lee started the OC dinners years ago with, if I recall the story properly, just one other person. It started off slowly and then suddenly bloomed and blossomed, as well as throwing off runners and shoots across the Commonwealth to the point that it's pretty hard not to find a regularly scheduled OC dinner somewhere east of the mountains. In all that time the only thing I've ever heard him ask for was that wherever the dinners be held, they not serve okra.
At times he's been teased mightily about that, and maybe twice someine has tried to slip a can of okra onto his place at the table. But month after month he rounds us up and brings us together for fellowship and food. And others, having seen what he was doing, gladly copied his plan (except most of them do not outright ban okra).
Sorry I almost forgot you, buddy.
stay safe.
Our own hlh.
Lee started the OC dinners years ago with, if I recall the story properly, just one other person. It started off slowly and then suddenly bloomed and blossomed, as well as throwing off runners and shoots across the Commonwealth to the point that it's pretty hard not to find a regularly scheduled OC dinner somewhere east of the mountains. In all that time the only thing I've ever heard him ask for was that wherever the dinners be held, they not serve okra.
At times he's been teased mightily about that, and maybe twice someine has tried to slip a can of okra onto his place at the table. But month after month he rounds us up and brings us together for fellowship and food. And others, having seen what he was doing, gladly copied his plan (except most of them do not outright ban okra).
Sorry I almost forgot you, buddy.
stay safe.
& Peter Nap