"I do admit that I am making generalizations, my only argument is I am basing the generalizations on the lack of any cases of open carry problems while the other side makes them based on what exactly? what ifs?"
I have to wonder where you live. I lived in Bakersfield, working in the trauma center at Kern Medical. I never saw anyone in the city openly wearing in all that time. I've never seen anyone in Fresno, Lone Pine, LA, Palmdale, Lancaster, Delano, Taft, Porterville, Springville, and many other central valley towns "open wearing."
Understand that you are talking about a behavior that is WEIRD: that is, something that virtually no one has ever seen before. You can believe it or not, but the sight of an armed person makes virtually everyone who sees it nervous and unsettled, because it is WEIRD. WEIRD people, of ANY kind, make most people unsettled. Most people want to move away. Most people, protective of their families, will complain, if they cannot move. If they complain to you, you've made it clear that you will not take their position into account, you don't care if you are destroying their vacation, you don't care if they are upset.
Those attitudes will not win friends and influence people.
You have made it clear that you are willing to take it upon yourself to use a gun to protect yourself from any perceived danger. You might consider that others will consider YOU to be a perceived danger. You might take your gun out to clean, and someone may interpret that as "brandishing", and so state to authorities. THAT is the weapon that they have to protect their families from perceived threat. Off you go to jail for observation, particularly if you make any kind of stink, then you get hit for resisting, and THAT won't go away when the brandishing witnesses don't show up for your trial. By the way, if convicted of that, you are now a felon, and I don't believe you may own a gun. Oh, and if the gun is *loaded*......
Saying that they don't deserve to feel that way, when it is the vast majority of the population, is pretty non-productive.
So you might want to consider the possible consequences of the behavior you advocate, and the reaction that it may trigger, and consequences of that.
People don't like to be made fearful, and when it is done deliberately, they can react in unpredictable ways.
