Thankfully, this incident ended without incident. Thankfully, the unarmed person who first saw the armed person, did what a rational person should do. He saw someone with a gun walking down the street and called police.
Someone walking down the street carrying a gun is the gold standard of reasons to call the police. Luckily, in this case, the someone walking down the street with a gun was an actual police officer.
But imagine this exact scenario, but with two different people.
Instead of the reasonable delivery person who called the police when he spotted the man with the gun walking down the street, he was an ardent 2nd Amendment enthusiast who also lovingly embraced the philosophy of the open carry folks. And instead of the second person being a cop, he was actually an equally virulent proponent of open carry.
It sounds like the beginning of a sick joke: "two strangers who are open carry whack jobs meet suddenly on the street....what could possibly go wrong?!"
And its not just that the scenario above involves two armed people. It involves two open carry zealots. Open carry zealots are not just people who carry guns. The carry guns because the love guns and what they say about the person openly carrying one: "I'm tough and macho and demand your fear and respect. And if you don't fear and respect me, there just might be trouble."
Open carry people are like severely drunk women at a bachelorette party. Neither keeps their opinions or thoughts to themselves. They air it all out for people to hear and see. In the case of the bachelorette, the alcohol removes her normal inhibitions and allows her to carry forth with no filter. In the case of the open carry guy, the gun removes his normal level of fear and allows him to go after whomever his submerged racism and bigotry points at.
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