Originally Posted by
OutofBatt3ry
Page after page of people open carrying having their gun taken from the holster. If you have the option, IWB.
So again, there are pros and cons for every form of carry. IF you are going to open carry, you better bring with it the requisite level of situational awareness and weapon retention skills. If somebody is capable of taking a wallet without it being seen, there are people who will go for your gun. And they don't need to be slick, they only need to catch you off guard for a moment and overpower you.
Open carry both deters and attracts criminals, it is the person and not the firearm that puts them into one or the other category. I'm pretty confident that TWICE in my 20 something years of carrying in Florida, which included a lot of "visible" carry, I had people who were in the process of making the "attempt" but something deterred them. Might as been as simple as the fact that I started tracking them early on, maybe they just decided I didn't seem like a suitable victim.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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