I recently was having this argument with my sister who Conceal Carries.
She basically was saying that because you have a gun openly on your waste, you are going to be an immediate threat for criminals meaning you will be shot.
I really disagreed with this argument except in a very very specific circumstance where the criminal is already in the process of robbing a store with a firearm.
Her basic assumption was that a criminal isn't going to think and is just going to shoot you anyways because he thinks he will already get away with the crime...
My assumption was that the majority of people who do armed robberies do not actually want to have to shoot somebody... a murder charge is a murder charge. An example of this being my friend, who has had multiple guns pulled on him in side his house of people purchasing from him, and he just sits there all chill and mocks them like they wont shoot... 100% of the people didn't shoot and just left.
Back to open carrying... Doesn't it make sense that if a random criminal thinking about commiting a crime sees you open carrying a gun, he is going to think twice about commiting the crime against you? Why add an extra risk to the scenario? If I were in the criminal shoes I would not engage the man who definitely has a firearm, but rather wait for somebody who has the chance of not carrying any gun.
Which argument is right? My sister is thinking that because you have a visible gun then to any criminal whether they commited they crime yet or not, is just going to shoot you because you are a threat to them, under the premis that the criminal is stupid/crazy. This is wrong right?
I just want some input on this wonderful forum. Do you think Open Carrying makes you less of a target for violent crime, or more of a target?
She basically was saying that because you have a gun openly on your waste, you are going to be an immediate threat for criminals meaning you will be shot.
I really disagreed with this argument except in a very very specific circumstance where the criminal is already in the process of robbing a store with a firearm.
Her basic assumption was that a criminal isn't going to think and is just going to shoot you anyways because he thinks he will already get away with the crime...
My assumption was that the majority of people who do armed robberies do not actually want to have to shoot somebody... a murder charge is a murder charge. An example of this being my friend, who has had multiple guns pulled on him in side his house of people purchasing from him, and he just sits there all chill and mocks them like they wont shoot... 100% of the people didn't shoot and just left.
Back to open carrying... Doesn't it make sense that if a random criminal thinking about commiting a crime sees you open carrying a gun, he is going to think twice about commiting the crime against you? Why add an extra risk to the scenario? If I were in the criminal shoes I would not engage the man who definitely has a firearm, but rather wait for somebody who has the chance of not carrying any gun.
Which argument is right? My sister is thinking that because you have a visible gun then to any criminal whether they commited they crime yet or not, is just going to shoot you because you are a threat to them, under the premis that the criminal is stupid/crazy. This is wrong right?
I just want some input on this wonderful forum. Do you think Open Carrying makes you less of a target for violent crime, or more of a target?