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I would OC all the time anyways if it were legal in Texas, but I've lived in OC states and feel comfortable with it already. I do so at home all the time because when I step outside the front door to go somewhere else, I have to make a point of concealing it in the first place (the one exception being when it's so hot that the only reasonable option I have is my LCP in the pocket). I prefer OC over CC because 1) no need to dress around the gun I feel like carrying, 2) no need to sacrifice capacity for size, 3) no need to sacrifice draw speed for effective concealment, 4) no need to debate either maybe getting sweat on my gun or dressing in an unnecessary layer, and 5) the draw from an OWB holster is more natural to my hands than IWB. Additionally, I'm not responsible for the general public feeling warm n' fuzzy; I've learned from personal experience that 90% or so of all OC interactions you have are positive or at least neutral, with much more inquisitive questions than condemnations. The 10% who don't like it are irredeemable and you're wasting your time trying to tell them that anyone but cops should have guns, so I just brush them off. My comfort and happiness don't take a back seat to some smelly hoplophobic hippy. And if you have a proper holster and a modicum of situational awareness (which everyone here claims to have when asked), no one's going to snatch your gun out of the blue, just to mention that fallacy.

I mean not to get off topic. Everyone who comes to my home regularly loves guns as well, and me carrying around them isn't an issue. I invite my friends to uncover and be comfortable in the summer heat as well, if they feel like it. And I don't open the door for a person I don't recognize unless I have a pistol on me, which almost always means OWB. I've never had a reaction, period, from any delivery man, pizza guy, or evangelist. Last year I opened the door to a HPD officer who was responding to someone kicking on our front door at 4am as I rested a double-barrel shotgun on my shoulder, and he seemed happy that I was prepared in case the guy actually managed to get in.