Why open carry is like gay porn to me

  I support both.  That is, the right to do both.  Not a thing I particularly I want to see in public.  However, the gay porn people understand that.  They realize that there's a time and place for all things. I also get the feeling that gay porn afficionados would not run around displaying the porn in public in order to "educate" the public.  Not so much on the open carry "advocates"......

  Open carry advocates have read Beyond This Horizon by Robert A Heinlein, once maybe a coupla hundred times.  In this vision of a future society, everybody open carries.  The premise is that armed society is a polite society.  You have a problem with someone, duel them right then and there.....  However, most of the characters in the book are not walking around, trolling for lawsuits with personal digital recorder, eagerly hoping for "looks" (see open carry forums for countless stories of "the looks I got at McDonalds."  Also, Heinlein's story vastly differs from that of reality.

  The characters in the book also are proficient with their weapons.  I don't know one open carry "advocate" that is proficient with anything more than than their audio/video recorder and spouting local ordinances regarding firearms carry.  Some of these "advocates" are indeed idealists, truly believing that  if you open carry enough and"educate" enough of the public, open carry will become mainstream..... The rest seem to be either trolling for a lawsuit or for attention.  If you mention the benefits of concealed carry to one of these "advocates," you will be shouted down with mentions of the blazingly fast advantage in speed when drawing from an openly carried firearm.  You see, that beats practice, training, or perhaps even timing the difference between concealed and openly carried....  I've timed the difference and I'm usually at a tenth or a second or two slower from open carry and that's because I'm faster with an appendix draw every time.

  The odd thing is that most of these "advocates" aren't so keen on proficiency.  You know, training classes, competition, improving one's ability to use your choice of carry firearm.  A cursory glance at open carry.org's state chapter for my state shows a seemingly unhealthy obsession with open carrying and fast food, a willful ignorance of the practical benefits of when carrying two handguns it makes sense to have magazine commonality ("advocate" in question is carrying an XD and a 1911 both openly), and at least two recent negligent discharges.  The last part is particularly troubling.

  The latest encounter between an "advocate" and a police officer ended quite well for those on the side of rational thought, manners, and generally ignoring an out of shape, attention needy "advocate" who open carries a .22LR MP5 clone complete with fake suppressor.  You know, for the attention.  The responding officer is a credit to himself, his department, and his profession.  The advocate is a laughable dolt who hurts the Second Amendment cause.  If you are serious about advocating our Second Amendment rights, get training.  Learn how to shoot.  Then encourage others.  Carry your weapon in a responsible manner.  Let the cops do their job.

  Enjoy the video.