Did you ever consider that maybe most people don't want a society where everyone is OC? Do we really want to go back to the days of the old west with people swaggering around carrying guns on their hips? The only reason to carry a weapon in day to day life is self defense. Just because you're carrying doesn't make you a LEO, it makes you capable of defending yourself in the unlikely event that lethal force is the only alternative you have left. Most LEOs go their entire careers without firing their weapons except at the range and they're the ones who get paid to look for trouble. The chances of the average citizen having to fire their weapon outside the range is much smaller.
We can all wax chivalrous with notions of being "sheepdogs" instead of sheep but the bottom line is CHL holders and OCers are not "sheepdogs" we're just armed sheep; no different than anyone else except that we can protect ourselves and our loved ones prior to the arrival of the real "sheepdogs". While that is a significant difference the point is that seeing people toting guns around unconcealed just reminds them that we live in a sometimes dangerous society and that's not something they want to be reminded of on a daily basis. Whether you agree with that mindset or not it exists and has existed for many generations. Calling people "sheep" and saying that "they need to learn to live with it" is the height of arrogance and smacks of hyperbole and sanctimony, neither of which are useful to the cause of supporting the 2nd Amendment. It provides more fodder for the gun grabbers to characterize us as mouth-breathing neanderthals just looking for the opportunity to go bonkers and shoot up a school or shopping mall.
I fully support the 2A and think that semi auto military style rifles are precisely what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the 2A. I'll be in Salem on the 8th and I'll be carrying but I also believe Teddy Roosevelt had the right idea when he said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick".
