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Even to that end, it's not to say that the homeless guy is a "threat." Prudence would prevent one from blindly trusting him/her, but he's not necessarily a threat.

Prudence is a proper word.

Homeless isn't the real or only issue, but everyone has to admit that a homeless street person who looks every bit the part of a guy who sleeps under a bridge has problems that might include no steady income, no steady food, and/or jealousy and envy of the guy in the suit.

He may be a greedy thief already who uses any opportunity to score anything from an unattended taco bell bag to a rolex that the besotted businessman is wearing.

He may be crazy as a bullfrog that snorted gasoline; serious, dangerous mental illness is statistically more prevalent among the box dwellers than among the working, home dwelling person. Maybe the homeless dude will be an angry, aggressive type who is homeless because he has been driven away from normal society.

Maybe the homeless guy is tanked on some drug, for example the bath salts tweaked face eater in florida.

But, set all of that aside as just normal thoughts of "you should be aware and take care" and go back to the question.

Should you trust a person who has a gun showing, or for that matter, a bat, a sword, a knife, cock,or other device that doubles as a weapon and walk with your back wide open? I don't know why anyone would blindly walk past an armed person who exhibits misfit behavior that may be an indication that safety is an issue. There are a lot of seriously bent people in america, and I don't believe that even a fraction of the crazies that live in the lower to the middle class can be detected as being dangerous at first glance. The worst of all, the predatory repeat offenders like the serial rapists and killers, you will never see it coming. They are the gray men.

There is, in fact, a tactical advantage to looking as normal and mundane as possible

In fact, you want to be the gray man. Not the mouse, though, don't be the guy who invites the snake by sitting still and pretending be a rock.

I have read or heard the same thing thousands of times in my life. Be like the tiger, walk the jungle with your eyes moving, use good posture, give the appearance of being an alley cat and not a mouse. This has never been said in context of walk along like you're the king of the jungle, an apex predator, and that everyone should fear you and tremble.


It means simply to know what is going on and let that show.

Wearing a gun on a belt doesn't make one look like a badass. It may deter a petty pickpocket or robber, but haven't we seen enough people get the hell beaten out of them just because they were in the wrong place?

A tough guy is a challenge to some people. If we have a large movement to carrying openly through places where crime is a problem, we will start seeing those carriers being beaten and disarmed. You can't possibly keep every human being at a ten foot distance, nor can you keep them all in front of you. A guy can go down from a rock to the back of the head, it happens all of the time. Want a gun? whack the guy who just stepped out of the pool hall after a few beers.

But, aside from the obvious dangers to the carrier, dangers that mostly don't exist for concealed carriers, public perception is the biggest issue I see. Who wants to go to jail on a zero tolerance charge because he walked past a school with a gun? The last thing we need to do, as responsible owners, is to alienate the soccer moms and so forth. The million mom march will swell to the ten million mom march if scary looking guys start sitting in the bleachers next to their children.

Part of the problem, like it or not, is the media. Why are so many people terrified of camping? because they watched the chainsaw massacre and other movies that involved people being dragged out of their tents by psychos with weedeaters.

Three girl scouts were raped and murdered at camp in oklahoma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklaho..._Scout_murders

that's real life. Scout groups changed. People reacted.

When enough people who open carry show themselves to be troublesome, People will react.