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CMV: If you walk around a U.S. city open carrying a rifle, you're an asshole.

Under normal circumstances, the only reason to do this is to either prove a point (i.e., it's 'merica and we got our right to our gun) or to intimidate people.  If there is active unrest and you want to sit on the roof of your own store or something like that with a rifle (like many of the Korean shop owners did during L.A. riots) to protect your own property, I can at least understand that.  I don't think it's a good idea, but you're not an asshole for doing it.

But just walking around the streets open carrying a rifle?  Yeah, there's no reason for that.

This excludes military and police.  Not that it's okay for them to just walk around with a rifle whenever; but there are situations where they can probably do it and not be an asshole.
gpt
>Under normal circumstances, the only reason to do this is to either prove a point (i.e., it's 'merica and we got our right to our gun) or to intimidate people.

I think that you are ignoring another huge reason that people carry guns: They have been manipulated into being terrified, and they have been told that having a gun, and carrying it, is their *only* reliable defense against what terrifies them.

Of what are they terrified? Take your pick, there are a lot of things that they are being told to be terrified about. Immigrants, criminals, immigrant criminals, the government, fellow citizens, the shadow government, secret societies, the media, doctors, people that don't look like them, scientists, people that don't worship the same sky man, educators, your neighbors, antifa, Black Lives Matters protestors, all protestors, whatever. 

These are deeply scared people who are stuck in a cycle of terror. They have been lied to for decades and told that everything in the world is against them, and out to get them. Look at them. They can't bring themselves to leave their own homes without being strapped like D-Day is happening. Who does that? Sure, a few assholes here and there, but most are just confused and scared idiots grasping for security in a world that they have been lead to believe has very little.