I FIRMLY am a supporter of the Second Amendment and I don't believe law abiding citizens openly carrying a weapon while going about their daily business is necessarily a bad thing.

For once.

Divide and conquer based on race and wealth.  

for an extremely powerful Colt 1911.  I think open carry is irresponsible because it puts an impossible burden on the police in a situation like the Dallas shooting spree.  It being Texas there were a couple of dozen guys openly carrying AR-15s and wearing paramilitary garb.  Luckily, when shots rang out they cut and ran like pussies.  But the police were trying to track down a gunman with his own AR-15.  They had to identify and deal with all these other guns out there.  In the time that was lost, perhaps more cops were shot.  There certainly could have been.
And can you imagine if those open carry folks had begun to fire back?  And most likely at the wrong person?  Voila!  Circular firing squad.  Here's what the Dallas Mayor said:
Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings joined John Dickerson on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” to explain the problems that surfaced Thursday night as police were attempting to subdue the shooter.

Would a no open carry law have stopped the recent killings to which you refer? Ask yourself that before we curtail any rights.

I wouldn't wanna be in Cleveland for the next 4 days.

Then we agree completely. lol

The point is that open carry made an already horrific situation more complex and dangerous.  If the "law abiding citizens" hadn't been openly carrying their weapons, the policy would have had a much simpler job and more of them could have more quickly turned to getting the perp.

what it would have done is reduced the confusion for the police as to WHO was actually shooting at them. Jake made my point, if everyone has an AR 15 and some guy with an AR 15 is shooting at police, it puts an impossible burden on the police to determine who is the actual threat.

Would any law have stopped any murders in these two cases?  

I am glad you said it wouldn't have stopped the killings bc we both know that to be true.

and please disregard any nonsense being posted by planet stupid

and I am not proposing new laws based on only a couple of incidents. What I am saying is that we need to avoid pouring gasoline on an already burning fire, Cops killing innocent, but armed "suspects" in the "heat of a battle" while under fire is only going to make matters worse. Even if the suspension of "open carry" is only a temporary one, I think it's something that needs to be considered.

But the Constitution also gives states the right to determine aspects of the law not reserved by the Federal government.  So it's completely within the law to opt for open carry.  The question is, is it wise?

But my mind is open on this one.

but for a good reason. Can anyone name a country that has or had open carry?

walk around letting the scumbag phucks know I'm armed . If I was the bad guy the first thing I'm doing is taking out the obvious threats and that's the moron showing everyone he's carrying . It's also embarrassing when some douche bag like the guy who walked into Hartsfield with a M4 hanging on him . He made that State look stupid to geeks passing through the world's busiest airport . If it's an event about firearms that's different .  

The few times I carried outside my property, my weapon was  concealed.  
    The only reason I carried those  times I had  legitimate reasons.  
   
   One time was at Union Grove.  
  The year before marauding gangs were going site to site  robbing and stealing liquor.  
    Not trying to be racist, just stating facts, they were White gangs of thugs doing the robbing.
    I wasn't there the year of the robberies but a good friend of mine was  robbed.  

Especially the one about putting a pistol in your pocket, any idiot who puts a pistol in his pocket deserves to shoot his own balls off. lol

Follows him around spewing bullshit because I'm so far under his ultra-thin skin.  Also, his post above is little more than him strutting around with his chest out about what a tough guy and crack shot he is.  What he actually is, is a crackpot.
But since you both love "MR" Trump I'm not surprised you are birds of a feather.

My headline was riddled with sarcasm, however, I  blame the Media a lot for inciting violence.  
 
   Many of the  sick ignorant bastards in the Media are loving the racial discord they are creating by their LE versus innocent Black citizen spiel.  

Has anyone noticed fg has been MIA? I can only imagine the giant IQ lift to the board if LTM were to join him on "vacation" or wherever he is.

At some point he'd wind down like a 5 year old and stfu? I guess he does that when he goes on TO.

And another fail.  You only think you've got me figured out. Klown boy.

A well regulated Militia is the preamble. The right to bear arms is the right of the people not of the militia. Also a militia of the time was not what we see one as today.

How about guys who drive low lowriders, do they have large peckers? How about guys who own motorcycles, boats