You're making some assumptions about what the goals of those open carrying are.
It may be the case that the open carriers failed to reverse the conditioning that has been instilled by hordes of Diane Feinsteins funded by billions of dollars, but they *did* demonstrate that ARs openly carried do not necessarily result in casualties.
Social perceptions do not always change immediately. It may in fact, take hundreds of "incidents" before public perception of an individual openly carrying in a mall is viewed as a binky, as compared to a potential threat. Does that make the perception correct? Were the flat-earthers right? The geo-centrics? A thing is what it is. Public opinion, and public stress about the revaluation of the incorrectness of their view on that thing is not the problem of the thing.
By your logic, gays should remain in the closet, because it discomforts straight people.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2013-04-05 02:48 am (UTC)It may be the case that the open carriers failed to reverse the conditioning that has been instilled by hordes of Diane Feinsteins funded by billions of dollars, but they *did* demonstrate that ARs openly carried do not necessarily result in casualties.
Social perceptions do not always change immediately. It may in fact, take hundreds of "incidents" before public perception of an individual openly carrying in a mall is viewed as a binky, as compared to a potential threat. Does that make the perception correct? Were the flat-earthers right? The geo-centrics? A thing is what it is. Public opinion, and public stress about the revaluation of the incorrectness of their view on that thing is not the problem of the thing.
By your logic, gays should remain in the closet, because it discomforts straight people.