I'm going to try to be careful how I say this, as it is not my intention to ruffle feathers, but I was surprised to find this out. Many of us through the years have kept up with what was happening on the "in whole or in part" thing, and have written our congressmen, and tried to educate ourselves, law enforcement, and others about it's flaw. Now that our lawmakers have finally brought the Mississippi code and the Constitution into conformity with regard to this, I was going to register at msgunowners and express my pleasure. But before I registered, I began reading some of the posts, and it seems that there is a good many that are skeptical, if not out right hostile on people having the undisputed choice to open or conceal carry.
I got the feeling that some thought we were not intelligent enough to make a decision as to when to open carry and when to conceal carry, that if approached we would somehow make a spectacle of ourselves, have wrong answers, or hurt the reputation of concealed carry somehow. This idea that no one should open carry because it may make others around them "uncomfortable" or "nervous" is the one that really got me.
Isn't that one of the points of open carry? To let people get used to seeing it, and that they should no more feel uncomfortable about it than they would if it were a cell phone. That a good guy with a gun is still a good guy with a gun whether or not he's been given a magic badge. If you are uncomfortable with my rights, that's your problem, but I'm not going to voluntarily give any of them up, because someone is uncomfortable about them. That would be like giving up my right to write this post if someone found it uncomfortable or offensive. Or giving up a choice to wear a jacket with a hoodie on it, or cammo because it makes some people uncomfortable.
It is the people who are uncomfortable that need to change their attitude, not those of us exercising a right. These people need to think, if there were three people in a store with properly holstered sidearms, would they be safer or less safe? The politically correct atmosphere has tried to (and been fairly successful at) equating "gun" with "criminal". We need to reverse that trend.
I did not register at the other forum, since it looked like I might be jumping into something a lot of them didn't want to hear.