I know Arizona has open carry. I find it both amusing, and not.
The reasons are the same.
There is a fundamental difference between California's right to open carry and Arizona's.
In California the weapon must be empty. No cartridges in it at all.
Which is why I said legally engaging open carry here is really problematic. If I were to be engaging in some sort of thing which an armed person would be a detriment, I 1: know they are armed. 2: that, if they are carrying legally they either have a carry permit, and so some training, or they don't and they need to load before they can fire.
Which means it's (esp. now) a political statement, and the politics in question, annoy me.
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Date: 2010-03-21 07:51 pm (UTC)The reasons are the same.
There is a fundamental difference between California's right to open carry and Arizona's.
In California the weapon must be empty. No cartridges in it at all.
Which is why I said legally engaging open carry here is really problematic. If I were to be engaging in some sort of thing which an armed person would be a detriment, I 1: know they are armed. 2: that, if they are carrying legally they either have a carry permit, and so some training, or they don't and they need to load before they can fire.
Which means it's (esp. now) a political statement, and the politics in question, annoy me.