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It is my opinion that if those who do carry regularly WOULD carry openly more often, it would help to de-sensitize those whom some people are afraid they are going to offend.
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I can personally vouch for this being effective. A woman who works at my apartment nearly dropped a box that the office was holding for me after I told her it was ammunition, not the weight set she was joking about. She also confessed to me that she was deathly afraid of guns. After a year of me coming in to pick up ammunition, carrying guns in and out of the building on my way to shoot or hunt, and carrying openly at times she has become very accustomed to me having guns. Now our gun conversations revolve around matches that I have entered, hunting seasons and the status of all my project guns. Had I hidden all evidence of my gun ownership this never would have happened.