What is the difference between an openly carried firearm and one that’s carried in a concealed manner? The short answer is which side of one’s clothing the gun is on. That’s literally it, and in a state like Florida, it didn’t even have to be that. Florida Carry used to use these sock-like things to slap over their gun that was otherwise carried openly. It didn’t really hide anything, you just couldn’t see the firearm specifically.
That was acceptable under the law, which just illustrated how stupid it was.
Now, though, Florida has open carry, so the socks are put away and are now historical artifacts. Unfortunately, some public officials are being about as stupid as humanly possible and freaking out over the prospect that someone might carry a firearm openly.
From Lee Williams at The Gun Writer:
The City of Sarasota went absolutely bonkers because their citizens can now carry arms openly. Sarasota’s City Commission is strongly Democratic and has a history of being frightened by guns, gun rights and especially the Second Amendment.
A City Commission meeting held last Thursday was attended by three Sarasota Police officers and their chief of police. The officers wore ballistic vests with hard body armor. Two of the officers carried ARs, but not a single citizen openly carried a firearm during the meeting.
So, who ordered the officers to attend the meeting with their hard vests and ARs?
That would be Sarasota Police Chief Rex Troche.
Contacted Monday, Chief Troche said that while he remains very concerned, and his officers plan to continue to monitor guns at public meetings, he may reduce the presence of “heavily armed officers.”
“We respect the Second Amendment and want people to know their rights and adhere to the law,” Chief Troche said.
It doesn’t appear that the good police chief knew how close he came to violating someone’s civil rights.
Then why have two heavily armed and armored officers at a city council meeting?
Honestly, this is the last thing anyone needs, because this is just fearmongering dressed up as responsible policing.
Criminals don’t openly carry. Assassins don’t openly carry. People with any kind of ill intent don’t want their potential targets knowing they’re armed until it’s too late. They carry concealed regardless of what the law says.
But Troche says he respects the Second Amendment? Really? Because it looks like he’s wetting himself because a law changed slightly that had nothing to do with what someone can and can’t do at a city council meeting.
It seems pretty clear to me that he wants people afraid. He wants the people who show up at city council meetings to see the police presence and feel like there’s some significant threat to the general public now that wasn’t there before the open carry ruling.
Troche can say what he wants, but one’s actions are a clearer indicator of what they think than any words uttered to the media ever could.
Seriously, he needs to calm the hell down and recognize that remarkably little has actually changed since the ruling. There’s no need to act like the Mexican cartels are about to hit the Sarasota city council meeting.
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