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Originally Posted by nostatic
With open carry you lose tactical advantage. Bad guys know who's armed and if they're going to do something bad, someone with open carry will be the first target. The is countered by the argument that open carry will dissuade them in the first place. But that's the trade-off.
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I've heard this so many times, but have never ever heard of someone who was open carrying being targeted in a robbery or other incident. It's pretty rare for cops to get mugged because most criminals aren't looking for a gunfight. Open carrying certainly takes the element of surprise out of it, but I don't believe at all that it makes someone a target. That's the last person I'd want to mess with if I made living robbing people.