I feel the same way you do. Open carrying a pistol is one thing, but I don't want to see someone coming down the store isle with an AR-15. Why? Because if you out gun me, that means my life is in your hands, and I don't like feeling that my life ain't my own.
At the same time I understand it's a false security to think that the laws are going to control the actions of homicidal maniacs.
The only Open Carry aspect of a law that I thought was important is the one covering accidental or unintentional exposure of a concealed weapon. You, I'm sure know of the incidences where prosecutors went after CCW people who bent over, or whose shirt rode up and exposed their gun. Florida passed a law that prevented these type prosecutions, so I really don't care about open carry.
Anyway, in Florida, it is now legal to Open Carry if one is hunting, camping, or fishing, or on the way to or from any of those activities. Technically one could open carry and just claim you were on the way to go fishing, hunting, or camping.
I feel the same way you do. Open carrying a pistol is one thing, but I don't want to see someone coming down the store isle with an AR-15. Why? Because if you out gun me, that means my life is in your hands, and I don't like feeling that my life ain't my own.
At the same time I understand it's a false security to think that the laws are going to control the actions of homicidal maniacs.
The only Open Carry aspect of a law that I thought was important is the one covering accidental or unintentional exposure of a concealed weapon. You, I'm sure know of the incidences where prosecutors went after CCW people who bent over, or whose shirt rode up and exposed their gun. Florida passed a law that prevented these type prosecutions, so I really don't care about open carry.
Anyway, in Florida, it is now legal to Open Carry if one is hunting, camping, or fishing, or on the way to or from any of those activities. Technically one could open carry and just claim you were on the way to go fishing, hunting, or camping.