Open Carry Victory

Open gun carry wins a victory in Alabama.  The ruling is a relatively straightforward application of the doctrine of legislative pre-emption. 

I applaud those who exercise their gun-carrying rights.  When the blood bath doesn't appear, perhaps the opposition will have one less argument to make. What the anti-gun owner authoritarians and paranoids need to realize is that the way to legally damp down open carry is to ignore it.  Many carriers are looking to rattle cages.  If the anti's would cool it and the media would generally ignore it, many carriers would get no cage-rattling satisfaction and would quit.  Many open carriers will stop once the novelty wears off.  Eventually this will become, except for the rights issue, "much ado about nothing."