[mookiemookie]

Open carry, in a tactical sense, gives the bad guy information that he can use against you. It's not a deterrent to getting mugged, it's a deterrent to getting mugged from the front.

Steve, as someone who was once friends with plenty of drug addicts, I've been in plenty of bad neighborhoods. Many of them so bad that having a gun on my hip openly wouldn't have made a bit of difference. I still submit that for most of these guys, it's an ego thing. And that's pitiable.