An "open" letter to my adolescent gun owners

Dear Fellow Gun Owners, I posed a question to a local law enforcement officer and asked him when he last arrested a criminal carrying a holstered firearm openly. He paused for a moment and admitted he couldn't remember. I have gotten similar responses from other police officers I have asked that question and the reason is very simple: criminals don't open carry. Openly carrying a firearm gets some mixed responses from the public and police. While most will agree it is legal and it is your right they often decry open carry based on so-called "common sense" arguments that present themselves as rational and reasonable. I will show you they are nothing of the sort. One of these arguments is that a criminal will take your gun or see your gun and it will make you a target. However, if you look at studies done by the Department of Justice 57% of criminals polled in prison say they fear one thing more than police...an armed citizen. Most criminals are not looking to make their job more difficult. They want easy targets and don't want to risk their own lives. So, more times than not, openly carrying a firearm will actually deter a crime before it happens. If you happen to be concealing your gun, you will just appear like everyone else, and in a situation where you have to draw your gun and fire it in defense your risk factor goes up substantially when the situation might have been avoided altogether had the assailants seen you were armed to begin with. If you happen to think this ...



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