re: Ok, i've got a question for you "open carry" guys.

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Read the newspapers, Pandy. You're not being objective, and are trying to trivialize things. It's obvious that you've got an opinion, but aggressively contesting the "other side" won't sway anyone. Hell, blame the nat'l media if you want someone/something to blame....perception becomes reality.

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I'm being very objective.

I live in st. tammany parish Louisiana.

Last year there were approx 750 reported violent crimes that run the gamut between murder and simple battery. With less than 20 being murder.

There are approx 260 thousand people who live in st tammany parish.

750 out of 260 thousand people were victims of violent crime in the parish where I reside and the vast majority of those were simple battery.

Where I live, the "perception" as you put it does not "match the reality" yet I still see grown suburban men openly carrying a loaded gun with some regularity.

It's odd and it seems to me, these men are overreacting to those newspapers you're reading, the same papers you want me to read.

It seems the "national media" you speak of has these suburban men fearing the suburban threat is very real, despite the fact that perception is indeed not reality. The facts don't support said perception.

They would do well to close their newspaper.