I see everyone so far thinks that Overt is "looking for trouble". I can see your point using today as a point of reference. If you are alone it is almost a non factor. For a group I would have to argue that there is a time and place for it. Living as the Gray Man does have its advantages but there are also some drawbacks. Everything is situational.
I have been in some very dicey places all over the world and I can tell you that sometimes it is much safer to be Overt. I must say that just being Overt is not what I am talking abut. Some D bag can kit up at the local gun show and be Overt all day but his S!@# is not together. Being Overt and having your S!@# VERY TIGHT can be a force protection measure. This was true in a place in Afghanistan for me. The Taliban would attack Big Army all day all buttoned up in their MATVs and MRAPs in huge convoys. We would roll out with a few people in two open top GMVs and they would even tell their people NOT to attack us. Why? Because when they didn't want to get wiped out. I would also roll out in a Toyota Hi-Lux and have to deal with being stopped at Taliban check points that would not have been their is I were Overt.
That same can be said for some time I spent in East Africa. We mount Crew-served weapons on our trucks and put on PCs and the warlords do not think that we are aid workers that they want to rob.
In a true SHTF situation conventional thinking is out the window. You need to think a bit more primal. More people would not think twice about going up to Gilbert Gottfried and punching him, yet the same person would most likely really think about doing the same to Arnold Schwarzenegger.........
Again just food for thought.
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