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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Set the scene:
Permitless open carry = if you're carrying openly, and not doing anything suspicious at the moment, then no one can question you about it. No one can confront you about it. And - most people wouldn't dare confront you about it.
This means - someone who is about to commit murder will walk among you all, in plain sight, and no one will know until someone is already dead.
New scene:
Open carry NOT permitted = if you're carrying openly, you're breaking the law. The only people who are going to do that, are criminals. They'll stick out like a sore thumb. Very easy to tell which one in the crowd is about to shoot someone, because - they're the ONLY ones carrying those weapons out in the open.
Previous scene: You don't know who is the target, and who is the shooter.
New scene: the shooter is the one with the gun. It's a no-brainer.
That's just ONE example. If you want to know which states have which laws you can check, just like I did. You can even get a nice neat run-down by state on wikipedia, and on various other websites. You can check the NRA (anti-restriction) website, Giffords (anti-gun) website, the ATF (the actual law) website, if you don't like wikipedia.
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I don't even know what to say. Are your scene's meant to be serious?
All states allow person to have rifles, shotguns and other similar weapons which are not concealed weapons and to move about with those weapons freely as long as they are not loaded while carried in some locales. In some states, the “long guns” may even be loaded while transported.
This has always been the case and is not a new phenomenon.
So, in your scene, the murderer who is open carrying (this term only applies to weapons that can be concealed, so we are talking handguns) and be seen by all. The person can be watched and avoided.
Replay the scene where the person is carrying concealed, and now no one can see the weapon, no one can keep an eye on the guy or avoid him until he chooses to kill people.
So, maybe I missed something really nuanced in what you were trying to say, because otherwise it makes absolutely no sense at all.