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Originally Posted by GunLawyer001
A big part of life is knowing when to hold your ground at all costs, and when to let it go.
You should also be able to carry a firearm openly anywhere except Philadelphia without being hassled, but if you try it, you will be hassled. That's just reality.
They say that neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. It's all well and good to discuss an ideal world where bad guys are invariably punished and good guys are allowed to do as they wish, where peaceably carrying a weapon has no consequences, and where plugging a burglar with a Minigun is regarded as just saving the taxpayers the cost of a burglary trial. We don't live there yet.
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I'm not directing this to anyone in particular who has replied to this thread but consider the following.
It's common to hear people utter "from my cold dead hands" if or when it comes to gun confiscation.
OTOH, we'll abstain from open carry because we *might* get
hassled by an LEO who is ignorant of the fact that it is not prohibited. Or, we'll use a
less effective weapon to defend ourselves because a jury *might* perceive us as someone with a Rambo complex.
Does anyone besides me see this as a dichotomy?
We'll make the ultimate sacrifice for gun confiscation but if we get arrested for open carry we don't seem to have the stomach to spend a night in jail and a day in court where it
WILL be rectified. Neither will we maximize the ability to save our lives and those of our loved ones out of fear there may be a perceived legal consequence. IMHO this is self-inflicted tyranny.