Open Carry Resistance in the Springs

[Irving]

Pretty much every national business is opposed to openly carried guns in their place of business. Actually, pretty much every business is opposed to openly carried guns.

[argonstrom]

Pretty much every national business is opposed to openly carried guns in their place of business. Actually, pretty much every business is opposed to openly carried guns.

Not mine.

However, I can offer the training and cert. to not have to open carry...

[TFOGGER]

Pretty much every national business is opposed to openly carried guns in their place of business. Actually, pretty much every business is opposed to openly carried guns.

Many small businesses (like...er...mine) could not care less if you are armed, concealed or not. I'm about 600 times more likely to object if you come into my shop smelling like an ashtray or a bong. If I happen to notice you are carrying, I might sit and BS with you about guns for a few minutes....

One of my best customers is a Range Safety Officer for the local IDPA, and we chat about guns all the time.

[Irving]

You are a gun guy though, so it doesn't count.

[Byte Stryke]

I have always said... it is not the guy wearing a sidearm on his side in plain view you need to worry about. Its the Punk that has a pistol shoved down his saggy pants.

The criminals don't OC.
They dont spend money on Nice IWB Holsters or even OWB ones...

And they give a fuck less about signs, laws and gun free zones.


And soco.. If you have observed someone in possession of a firearm while intoxicated and you didn't notify every agency within jurisdiction, you are a bigger idiot than the ones you are hating on and probably complicit to a felony after the fact.
And who the hell made you master decision maker?
Every law abiding citizen has the 2nd, I don't give a shit if he has a Larry the cable guy T shirt with No sleeves, wears a Bubba-Gump hat and never graduated the 9th grade; unless you are a duly appointed judge, you dont get to choose.
Your defeatist and liberal attitude is what is costing us the fight, not responsible gun owners OCing. Ideology like yours is why OC is illegal in many municipalities making the 2d amendment a "pay as you go" privilege instead of a right.

I fought for everyone's constitutional rights, It's kind of the point.
Yes, even your right to get on here and spout your beliefs, no matter how ignorant they may be.

[Ronin13]

I have always said... it is not the guy wearing a sidearm on his side in plain view you need to worry about. Its the Punk that has a pistol shoved down his saggy pants.

The criminals don't OC.
They dont spend money on Nice IWB Holsters or even OWB ones...

And they give a fuck less about signs, laws and gun free zones.


And soco.. If you have observed someone in possession of a firearm while intoxicated and you didn't notify every agency within jurisdiction, you are a bigger idiot than the ones you are hating on and probably complicit to a felony after the fact.
I fought for everyone's constitutional rights, It's kind of the point.

Hence when people say "I always have my firearm in easy reach," I say I don't always because I usually leave it in the car when I go to a concert, bar, or any public place where it could get me into more hot water than I'd like. But funny that theBelly tells this, I've been to BWW many times while CC and now I look back and laugh that they're so anti-carry, if they only knew
And Byte, I can't agree with you more, I too fought for peoples rights to do/say what they please as outlined by the founders of this great nation.
I'm just glad I haven't had to calmly explain to an aggressor that I'm armed and then turn around and have to defend myself to LE instead of get charged with menacing. I have, though, a few times place my shooting hand thumb at the bottom of my shirt ready to pull it up and draw my weapon on several occasions whenever someone made me feel even slightly like there was a hint of danger... thanks PTSD.

[bryjcom]

I think we all need to realize that the Bill of Rights does not protect us from private property owners. It is only there to say what the government can NOT do to us.

You have no freedom of speech in or on my property

You have no 2nd amendment right in or on my property

You have no religious freedom in or on my property

Etc, etc, etc.

You only have those rights on my property if I grant those to you.

Its better to CC on private property and eliminate all potential problems and confrontations.

[Irving]

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