Look... I'm all for gun rights, but am I alone in thinking that all these people on YouTube walking around with a camera while they open carry hoping for a police confrontation where they can be assholes and cite state/federal statutes are making the rest of us look like pricks?

You can simply do a YouTube search for "open carry" and see the multitude of clips where people open carry, it seems in hopes of a police confrontation where they can spew statutes and laws in an attempt to seem like a gun rights activist, or possibly just to belittle and shame authorities. Although I personally prefer to CCW my weapon, and I don't take issue with open carry, I don't think these videos are as much as gun rights' activism statement as they are a chance for people to be seen all over YouTube for being defiant to authority under the guise of gun rights. A few examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g71VfyHiWPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwP02Dkp7A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1UkfirtoDQ

EDIT: This is an open forum for discussion and opinion and it is welcomed.

EDIT: I want to tell EVERYONE, regardless of your position in this discussion, that I appreciate you taking the time to voice your opinion. Its important for those of us who want gun rights to be informed, educated and understand all sides of the arguments we are presented in order to educated others and invoke change.

EDIT: Ok, I'm done for the night, but this has been a really good discussion. Definitely raised some points I hadn't considered. Definitely affirmed some of the feelings I had when posting. Happy to have been able to spark the discussion and for the most part intelligently interact with people on this topic. Thanks again!