WalkingWolf
Regular Member
Except for one thing, skidmark. He's been at it for more than a year and a half, yet none of your or others' many nay-sayings have every come to pass. I'm not saying they won't at some time in the future. However, given a database of many tens of thousands of t-shirts already sold around the world without any such incident, it's highly unlikely that should any such incident ever occur, it would be a part of any "trend." Rather, it would an isolated incident, much like the guy who was showing off his first firearm by OCing, without bullets, around 2 am, and had it taken away from him. Funny, yes. Thankfully, it wasn't tragic. Regardless, it was isolated.
In the meantime, just listen to the guy in this 30-second spot on CBS. His response was simple, well-grounded, and straightforward.
When I first heard about this, I thought precisely the same thing as you: "t's a target. It's a mistake. It's dangerous. Not smart to wear a t-shirt that looks like a gun when you don't actually have a gun."
I was wrong.
Only recently did I realize that you're no more likely to be accosted or shot for looking like you're OCing than you are for OCing. For years we've been telling people precisely that. We've been telling them that OCing does not make us an instant target.
Rail all you want. It's a free country. Just realize the data has been coming in for over a year and a half, and it says otherwise, loud and clear.
Except people have been shot OCing non firearms, in several cases. One case a individual was shot just complying and getting his drivers license as commanded. I assume Skid, as I, is not talking about the common criminal, but the few negligent police officers an individual may come in contact with. Some anti in a Walmart could see the shirt and Swatt the shirt wearer and the police respond, and shoot because they claim he did not put the gun down fast enough. Or in the case of a shirt, not at all.