Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS
@Strega 90 percent of the time, hunting uses a long gun (a shotgun or a rifle) that would be very difficult to conceal. Handguns can take deer but they’re suboptimal to say the least. Smaller animals can certainly be dispatched readily with the tiniest of handguns shooting a mere .22 LR round–but how many of your neighbors subsist on squirrels and rabbits? And when hunting there’s just no need to conceal it, the animal doesn’t realize what it is. Conclusion: if someone is hunting, 90% of the time you’ll know it instantly.
Concealing is a tactic useful only when dealing with fellow hair-impaired apes. If someone is concealing, he’s either a predator, or interested in self defense (and doesn’t want to alarm the muggles), most likely the latter.
A long time ago, it was considered underhanded to conceal a gun, but honest upright folks carried openly. The constitution here (written in 1876) states that one’s right to bear arms shall not be called into question (a provision Denver violates because they fucking feel like it), BUT it also goes on to say that that statement should not be construed as allowing the carry of concealed guns. In other words, carry whatever you want openly, but we don’t have to allow you to conceal it; that’s a shady thing to do.
Fast forward 140 years and open carry, even though absolutely legal everywhere in Colorado except Denver, is considered edgy by many, so honest people not wanting to scare the muggles conceal it–after getting the license that is required. A pronounced cultural shift.
