Concealed carry is preparedness. You might be totally off about the actual risks. You might be “prepared” for something that will never happen. But the idea is sound: If you think you need a gun because someone might try to kill you you carry a gun and don’t let anyone know you have it until you need it.
Open carry is intimidation pure and simple. You are telling everyone who can see you “Look at me! I can kill you, and there isn’t a damned thing you can do about it. Better be nice to me.” If you are lugging around a rifle and wearing a plate carrier you are saying "I don’t want to just shoot you. I want to shoot people a quarter mile away. And I expect people with shotguns and rifles, probably the police, to be trying to kill me. Couple it with political clothing, as these idiots often do, and it’s the threat of illegal violence for political ends, terrorism. Except that most of the people doing this are white which means they’re Very Fine People.
The one exception is if they have a Moron Labia sticker like this:
That means “Free Gun!” They even asked you to come and take it.
