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    | Comment by: 
     PHORTO
     (8/29/2019) |  
    | Open carry only becomes controversial, yea criminal, if a person "goes armed to the terror or the public". 
 For this to be a crime, it must be done intentionally for that purpose.
 
 The Constitution doesn't protect people using their natural liberties to commit crimes. Merely open carrying is not a crime, it is a right, but doing so with the clear and obvious intent to terrorize people makes it one.
 
 If this nitwit was honest, he would have written a different column.
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    | Comment by: 
     C.J. Roberts
     (8/30/2019) |  
    | I open carry here in Arizona nearly every day. Nobody here worries about it. In the last two weeks, at least two "older" ladies have stopped me to thank me for doing so. |  
 
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