This may also be the case here in Texas.denwego wrote: That was my experience living in VA as well. Grocery stores, restaurants, Walmarts, dog parks, doctor's office... if you walk around while openly carrying and don't act like it's a big deal, no one around you treats it like a big deal, either.
Last week I was at a restaurant with my girlfriend. We were sitting in a booth and I was sitting so my gun side was toward the outside of the booth. We went our entire meal with the waiter coming to our table, people sitting in a table to my right, people walking by, etc. I realized as I got up to go to the bathroom after paying the check that, apparently, my shirt rode up when I got in the booth and got hung behind my gun. My gun was visible the entire time I was sitting there. I had no idea and nobody screamed or did anything.
I simply re-concealed and made my way to the bathroom. Upon returning to the table I told my girlfriend that my gun had been exposed the entire time we'd been sitting there. She shrugged and said "Oh, well. I guess it's not a big deal."
While I agree there will be some people who freak out, the majority of people won't see it as a big deal. I guess if anyone ever freaks out if I become unconcealed, I'll just do what Brass Monkey did one time when a gust of wind unconcealed him and a lady yelled "Oh my God, he has a gun!". BM calmly re-concealed and said "Lady, this is Texas. Deal with it."