I think out next effort should be "Constitutional Carry," sounds good to the uninformed, aims higher, and we can 'compromise' back to unlicensed OC/licenced CC with licensed campus cc.
Approve?
100%. This is also an extraordinary euphemism for "open carry." It means the same thing (and more) without having the prejudicial overtones that "open carry" may convey. After this year, the term 'open carry' may have gained some unneeded baggage when it was emasculated at the last minute; therefore, going at it with the same exact terminology next year might send us in the same exact direction.
You can go ahead and stick this one in your next poll: "When it comes to gun rights, which language might you consider supporting?"
a.
Constitutional carry
b.
undisguised holstered carry (trying to improve on 77zach, who made a couple of killer suggestions. Undisguised = I have nothing to hide)
c.
open carry
No fourth option. It's a poll. If they wanna say guns are "meanie weapons," you just mark nothing and go on to the next one: like target-shooting, there will always be a few strays. The first two might just gain a marked advantage over open carry. I'm going to find out when my next election is, and Im going to work on a poll along with my college CJ students; the topics will include gun rights, early release, immigration (in Miami, of all places), and other topics that deal with crime. I will ask the same question in a few different ways, to get a feel for the Miami-Dade populace.
I'll spread them in pairs at the polls, with neutral shirts (or school shirts), have them bring coolers, and then meet at the office for pizza and drinks. The polls would serve a purpose for my students and a purpose for me. Mine would be "refining language" in order to make things more palatable for the folks in Miami (if you have Dade
and Broward, the entire state is just about set). This poll idea starts today and will be done before 11/15 (just checked it out on another tab), but with your poll questions, we may be able to, as Ixtow asserted, "disambiguate."
At the end of the day it doesn't matter what language we employ, but we cannot take the attitude, expressed earlier, that "there's no need to change it to make people feel better"; while true, it ignores political realities:
everybody wishes to feel as if they did the right thing when they went to the polls. If mushy language helps us to attain our goals, so be it. Who cares? The goal for all of us remains constitutional carry and then some, but we should support legislation next year that espouses language that we believe would be more likely to pass, because of its palatability.