Life
Wish
 Open
carry. A primitive idea that a safer society
is achieved if we all walk
around
visibly bristling with weaponry, up to
but not limited by the kind usually found
on the battlefield. Open carry is functionally
nothing more than a middle finger to
everyone else in a civilized world which,
incidentally,
defines 99.9999% of typical American life.
This is not Somalia, where shooting someone
for their food is a thing. This is America,
where someone would give you
his shirt and the back that goes with it
if your metaphorical crop should happen
to die. (The 1% excluded.)
Like it or not, no matter how Dirty Harry
you think you are you simply cannot
protect
yourself
from someone
determined to shoot and kill you. The only
way open carry can possibly work is if
you're
a
telepath and can thus know exactly when
the basket case behind you in line at
the
7-11 decides he hates your after-shave
and reaches for his waistband.
Open Carry is not about self-protection.
It's clearly about using the Constitution
to be a selfish, entitled bully. If its
adherents
really wanted a safer world they would
demand fewer
guns on the street,
not more.
=Lefty=
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