Today I played "Open Carry"

[Irving]

You seem pretty angry. I don't think anyone in here was saying that you shouldn't have open carried. Will it make you feel better if I open carry for a day too?

[spyder]

You seem pretty angry. I don't think anyone in here was saying that you shouldn't have open carried. Will it make you feel better if I open carry for a day too?

Ya, I was wondering myself why he sounded so offended...

[ldmaster]

Just hate it when my message gets hijacked and pushed off-center.

Folks, SOMEBODY should be angry.

Oh, gosh, it's probably time for somebody to call DHS and report my "anger" Isn't that what we're learning to do?

We should always respond according to our principles, I simply dislike it when fear and avoidance are disguised as principles, especially when it's cloaked in "virtue".

The experiment wasn't intentional, it just started happening and I saw no reason to not continue it.

It's also true that my external appearance doesn't generally encourage people to fear me. White(ish) guy, short hair, older NOT wearing camo clothing, or an NRA hat, or an ugly-ass ponytail with full beard with a quote from Adolph Hitler on his t-shirt, no keyring held onto my belt by a dog collar chain or any other cultural indicator that I'm a "gun totin' redneck who is PROBABLY a nazi and kicker of kittens. It was as much a test of what signals set people off, as it was of their observational skills and bias. I might try it with a "Palin in 2012" t-shirt, that should do it.

The next time I do it, probably, I will plan it better (or maybe not).

Ultimately my point is that even a simply exercise in a right enumerated in the Bill of Rights, will draw detractors who will almost always explain why I was stupid without actually calling me stupid, simple inference, and almost ALWAYS do it to make them seem wiser (somehow).

Hence, "coward"

Argument doesn't need to be about anger, and argument that seems to be more virtriolic isn't necessarily expressing anger either. Come to think of it, the whole use of the word "anger" has become perjorative to the extreme. Just saying it conjures images of Charlie Sheen beating up another woman...

[spyder]

I don't get exactly what it is that you were apparently trying to do with this thread then? Why would anyone be angry? You told us about your day and it sounds like it went good and no one freaked out on you. So, I'm a little confused where the anger is coming from. Ya, some of us shared some of our stories, but, so what? Those all came out good also, so I still don't see any reason for anyone to be angry? You are talking to, for the most part, a bunch of cool level headed guys here, no one would get angry about any of that. Well, I don't think anyway....

[BPTactical]

Idmaster- please don't take my post as a slam to what you choose to do. Absolutely no intent to do so and if it came across that way I apologize.
Simply a statement of my opinion and that is to carry discreetly. Whilst I would love to carry open and do when I am in the hills when in town I roll CCW.
I don't have the time nor patience to be hassled by a LEO that does not understand or is ignorant of what the law may or may not state.
I choose not to attract attention to myself and my right to carry.
As far as the soccer mom comment that is a rank on the Anti's. They will capitalize any time a firearm is mentioned in a negative light. If they don't know I am carrying then I give them no fodder for their ignorance.

[colocowboy01]

I don't think anyone in here was saying that you shouldn't have open carried. Will it make you feel better if I open carry for a day too?

SO is open carry stupid like some have said. That would be like someone saying you should not open carry.