Like talking to a wall
MyGreenGuns:
Wow! The majority of this thread is bickering that does not suggest "High Road".
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To the people who asked about a punk confronting you about your OC weapon: (Yes its happened, as I've read from other users on THIS site.) You could simply ask the agressor if he knows he's about to commit felony assault and ask him if he'd like to proceed as you step back and place a hand on your weapon. The main objective is to walk away. If he backs down, walk away. If he attacks, he is commiting a violent crime, and you have a right to defend yourself from violent crime.
I quite agree this discussion does not suggest "The High Road", but for different reasons.
What part of the following is not being understood?: "The punk confronting you about your OC weapon"
would not be confronting you at all if that weapon were concealed.
The OC advocates here seem so obsessed with demonstrating their right to OC (even when it contradicts common sense) that they are willing to, in effect, set the wheels in motion to
invite and provoke a felony assault where none would otherwise occur.
It's tantamount to walking down the street with wads of cash displayed openly (which you have every right to do); Yes, the guy who robs you is committing a felony, but your lack of common sense invites the crime.
At least
one of you also fails to understand the difference between OC by a uniformed and commissioned LEO and OC by a private citizen. By your "logic", everybody should OC. Maybe then we'll be able to spot the plainclothesmen and detectives because they'll be the
only ones not OC'ing; would
that make sense in the strange world you seem to inhabit? (A world where one "simply asks" the aggressor,
"Pardon me, My Good Fellow; might you be aware that you are about to commit a felony assault? Are you quite sure you wish to proceed?").
In the
real world that
I inhabit, I (too often) find myself unable to avoid walking a gauntlet of loudmouth, posturing thugs. If I were OC'ing, I would not make it to the end of the block.
MyGreenGuns:
also +1 to "You dont know who Johnny Cash is?!" I will admit, I dont know much of the Beetles. But as Uma Thurman said in Pulp Fiction, "You're either a Beetles man or an Elvis man." Hail to the KING baby!
So, you agree with me about Johnny Cash. Whoop-di-doo. But the guy who didn't know who Johnny Cash was at least knew how to
spell "Johnny Cash". Sheesh! A "beetle" is either an insect or a car made by Volkswagen.
And I hope you'll learn more about lawless violence than you learned watching "Pulp Fiction"; and I hope you survive the lesson.