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Open carrying is a right. Not getting "panic calls" is not.

Furthermore, anyone who freaks out and calls 911 because someone is walking around not breaking the law is the problem, not the person exercising their rights.

Too many people treat the police as social tech support, not as law enforcement.

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Sure it's a right. But you won't see me walking down our main street with my AK47 on my back because we know the outcome, and that's my point. No one is arguing what the rights are, my context is they are pushing the boundaries to assert their rights and change how the police interact with people.

Why not? It's legal and if the police harass you for doing so, the police are broken, and someone should fix that.

The first step in fixing it is bringing it to the forefront of attention.

Peacefully open carrying long arms has a long and great historical tradition in the US. I have a poster of Huey P Newton on my wall in my office.

https://capitolweekly.net/black-panthers-armed-capitol/

the police should be held to a far higher standard, tho. I agree auditers are being provocators, and people can consider them jerks, but you are allowed to be a jerk, if you are not breaking laws. We give police the trust to serve and protect, and give them high levels of immunity. They should be significantly better than the common man.

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