1. | Jun 27, 2014

Thanks for your body of work in this field, it's appreciated.My first thuohgt on reading your Note is that I don't know how a bad guy would know that there are fewer concealed carriers, based on seeing more open carriers. Seeing more guns would seem to me, just sort of intuitively, to raise awareness that some of the victim pool is armed. Do the perps make the false leap to thinking "only open carriers are armed"?Also, OC seems likely to make the carrying of firearms more socially acceptable, provided that the OC'ers act like responsible, polite adults. Seeing armed fellow citizens buying groceries or watching football might counter some of the unrelenting anti-gun propaganda, and raise the overall level of firearms carry. So it isn't a zero-sum game.Thanks again for raising these issues in an intelligent manner.