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I want my right to open carry back.
I am also unlikely to exercise that right.
There's lots of good reasons to keep it concealed and many reasons to not advertise that you're toting.
Those reasons are not the point.
I am being denied a right.
That alone would be enough, but the people who are politically powerful and denying my that right are dishonest about it.
The consistently fail to compellingly communicate why I shouldn't be able exercise my right.
They very rarely cite the reasons I alluded to above.
I reject, out of hand, "officer safety." That bat has been used to beat me too many times.
Very often the spokesweasels for the police and their professional organizations bring forth the hoary old, "It will make our jobs harder."
So?
I think it's within a citizens rights to demand that their civil servants life be made more difficult. Did you ever think of that, Sheriff? That we WANT you to work harder for the vast sums of money that your agency consumes?
But does it really make their jobs harder?
I guess it would. If open carry is legal, then they can't just arrest everyone without the Seal of the King* on their chest they see with a weapon.
Ever notice, while they are not citing the solid reasons to not open carry I allude to near the top of this rant, cops, deputies, chiefs, sheriffs, police unions and law enforcement organizations and lobbies never advocate for LEOs to stop open carrying?
Wearing of arms, historically, is a badge of rank. A divider between the nobility and the commoner.
Well, Sheriff, there ain't no nobility in a Republic; or rather we're ALL noble because we're all sovereign.**
This is all about political power and elitism. If I can openly carry, then they aren't special. They are not elevated above me.
The truth of the matter is they are beneath me. They're supposed to be working for us not telling us what we can and cannot do.
*Badge
**Not to be confused with the Sovereign Citizen Movement
Yeah, I'll likely never open carry here in Texas, but I could if I wanted to. The whole "officer safety" thing is BS... The implication that anyone carrying a firearm is automatically a criminal or at the least has criminal intentions? Weirdly a LOT more people are downright polite in this environment where almost everyone can be armed, assuming we are not all so armed...
ReplyDeleteVery true.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, a right denied or required to have a permit for isn't a right at all.
Time, past time, to take back our rights above the government(s).
When I lived in NE Atlanta I carried a full size Glock and could care less if it printed. I moved to rural South Georgia and I switched over to the North American snuby 22 Mag pocket gun. I still have the S&W 357 in the truck but it is more laid back down here.
ReplyDeleteThe problem without open carry rights, sometimes displaying a handgun can end a dispute, issue, encounter without firing a shot. Here in California, that is called brandishing and you loose your CCW if you do so. So basically there is no way to draw your weapon without shooting someone as laws are written.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear the cops whining (whether it's about this or car window tint) that "it makes their jobs harder" I reply that if they don't like working here, I know a place where the police have a very easy time of it. Of course, they'd have to get used to eating bark, praising the Dear Leader, and speaking Korean, and the North Korean climate is (I am told) unpleasant, but there's no rose without thorns, now is there?
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