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TXBO wrote:

bortaz wrote:

Richbirdhunter wrote:Has anyone heard of anything happening to anyone that OC's where it's already legal? It's been legal in several states for years, I've never heard of anything happening to them because of OC

In every forum I use, you constantly see people talking about criminals "taking you out first" when they see you open carrying. However, I haven't yet found a single person that can provide a single link to a single story of this ever happening in the singular history of the US of A.

That's true it happens, but doesn't everything happen? Maybe it's time to start thinking, it's possible not probable.

When CC became legal again in Texas people said all kinds of bad things were possible. As it turned out not very much of it was probable.

I believe that OC will turn out much the same way.

I don't have any examples of open carriers being taken out first. In the mid-90's, I lived in Phoenix, AZ. I shot action pistol with several friends from the Sheriff's department. Their stories of people from other states, that came to vacation, strap on an open carried gun and get hit over the head, are what convinced me to conceal. I don't know how frequent it is, but it happens.

AndyC wrote:Do whatever blows your hair back; it's irrelevant to me.

AndyC wrote:Do whatever you like - he wanted an example.

AndyC wrote:I neither said nor implied that it was the rule; someone asked for a single example - I gave them one.

AndyC wrote:

bortaz wrote:

Richbirdhunter wrote:Has anyone heard of anything happening to anyone that OC's where it's already legal? It's been legal in several states for years, I've never heard of anything happening to them because of OC

In every forum I use, you constantly see people talking about criminals "taking you out first" when they see you open carrying. However, I haven't yet found a single person that can provide a single link to a single story of this ever happening in the singular history of the US of A.

By 'taking you out first', I don't know if you mean 'shot first' or their gun grabbed but if you mean the latter:
http://koin.com/2014/10/07/man-practici ... ed-of-gun/

I highly doubt that's happened only once, either. Concealed-carriers have also had their pistol grabbed because they got 'made' - at which point their method of carrying became irrelevant and they might as well have been OC for all the good it did them. I predict one or two Texas snatchers will have new holes in them before 2017, though.

Me - I might gain myself some new experience and OC once or twice; I've never been allowed to before, other than in a couple of countries I invaded first.