Bookman
Campaign Veteran
Has any open carrier here or in any other state committed a crime or hurt anybody?
99% of the time the police arrive after the crime is committed. Seattle has a 6 minute response time for priority one calls.
Carrying a gun is kind of like wearing your seatbelt, you hope you never need it but its there in an emergency.
Has any open carrier had a crime committed around him or her, or been a victim of a crime, in this state or any other. If not, is Open Carry a crime deterent?
I noticed in California the antigunners showed up at open carry meets and protested, this is how they got the media involved and got their message out. If the antigunners try that up here, maybe we should PM each other with location and times of meets.
Please don't post any negative examples of OCers doing bad, I don't want to give Ceasefire any ammo, PM me with the info please.
IIRC there's an OC activist in Detroit (?) who is on trial because he shot two men who he said accosted him. His story, as printed in the press, sounds a bit fishy as the evidence doesn't line up very well with the story. The name Jesus Gonzales seems to ring a bell on this one.
That being said, I haven't researched this answer and am going on memory alone, so I may be wrong.
ETA: I checked and found that I had the right name, but the wrong city. This actually happened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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