Man walked into Giant with his AR/AK

[GunLawyer001]

All of these arguments about how it's stupid to carry a rifle around are absolutely identical to the arguments I hear in NY against handgun OC.

I get your point, but let's be clear: you're making it on a very slippery slope. The same arguments you are using today against rifle carry can, are, and will be used against handgun OC.

No, handguns are not rifles. Incidentally carrying a handgun is nothing like carrying a rifle in your hands, or even slung over your shoulder.

This is a silly argument, like saying "if pedophilia is illegal, next thing you know they'll ban all marriage."

I carry a pocket knife (except in Philly, where it's illegal and carries a mandatory 6 months). I don't carry a machete or sword. I also go almost everywhere in PA with a handgun somewhere on my person. I have never, ever walked into anyplace other than a gun shop or gun range carrying a long gun.

I occasionally see open carriers of handguns, and I notice it but it doesn't worry me. If I see some pasty-faced dork walk into Walmart with an AR-15 in his hands, I'll be scouting for covered firing positions and watching him instead of shopping. Because they aren't the same thing at all.

[PickingPA]

As I tell my kids, on various topics:

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

[Sandcut]

All of these arguments about how it's stupid to carry a rifle around are absolutely identical to the arguments I hear in NY against handgun OC.

I get your point, but let's be clear: you're making it on a very slippery slope. The same arguments you are using today against rifle carry can, are, and will be used against handgun OC.

Not even close, if you actually bother to think about context.

[bogey1]

As I tell my kids, on various topics:

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

Yep.

[JenniferG]

The can also be "carried" offensively or defensively. A holstered handgun is waiting until it's needed. A long gun or SBR (or the ersatz SBR's made with "braces") being carried in your hands in the supermarket, is being carried as though your plan is to use it.

If I walked into a Giant carrying a chain saw or a mop, everybody would look at me weirdly, and assume that my plan was to cut something or clean the floor. There's some sort of threshold point where the object you're carrying is so heavy or so large or so out of place, that the reasonable assumption is that your intent is to employ it imminently.

For example, "Mattress Girl":

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I knew a guy that used to hitchhike carrying a huge rubber dildo called "the champ". He walked a lot or took the bus.

[Gun]

The same arguments you are using today against rifle carry can, are, and will be used against handgun OC.

Well, shooting up stores have caused new policy regarding open carry, but that's the right of private business.

I knew a guy that used to hitchhike carrying a huge rubber dildo called "the champ". He walked a lot or took the bus.

As whimsical as this anecdote could be, that recollection of some guy would have been scrub from my R.O.M..

[alpacaheat]

The can also be "carried" offensively or defensively. A holstered handgun is waiting until it's needed. A long gun or SBR (or the ersatz SBR's made with "braces") being carried in your hands in the supermarket, is being carried as though your plan is to use it.

If I walked into a Giant carrying a chain saw or a mop, everybody would look at me weirdly, and assume that my plan was to cut something or clean the floor. There's some sort of threshold point where the object you're carrying is so heavy or so large or so out of place, that the reasonable assumption is that your intent is to employ it imminently.

For example, "Mattress Girl":

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Never heard of her. What an F'd up story:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/...y-provocateur/

[OwnTheRide]

This is a silly argument, like saying "if pedophilia is illegal, next thing you know they'll ban all marriage."

Not even close, if you actually bother to think about context.

Let's not forget who we'e talking about here. The same people that feel we need to ban modern sporting rifles despite the fact that they kill fewer people than pools.

As I said, I get your point(s). And as I said, the same arguments will be used against handgun OC. Regardless of how little sense they make.

[American1776]

I have continued to Open carry (usually a Beretta 92 or an HK USP compact) when I'm out alone, either in WaWa, Giant, McDonald's, and the like. I haven't had a problem lately. Nothing like an evacuation. Maybe I'm just lucky.

When with the family, I conceal so my daughter doesn't get any blowback from a communist who would go after her to harm me.

[djeuch]

No, handguns are not rifles. Incidentally carrying a handgun is nothing like carrying a rifle in your hands, or even slung over your shoulder.

This is a silly argument, like saying "if pedophilia is illegal, next thing you know they'll ban all marriage."

I carry a pocket knife (except in Philly, where it's illegal and carries a mandatory 6 months). I don't carry a machete or sword. I also go almost everywhere in PA with a handgun somewhere on my person. I have never, ever walked into anyplace other than a gun shop or gun range carrying a long gun.

I occasionally see open carriers of handguns, and I notice it but it doesn't worry me. If I see some pasty-faced dork walk into Walmart with an AR-15 in his hands, I'll be scouting for covered firing positions and watching him instead of shopping. Because they aren't the same thing at all.

The voice of reason here, ladies and gentleman!