If you can't draw from concealment, with one or both hands, and not get some shirt in it, that's a training issue, plain and simple.
Training while in a non-stressful state is NOTHING like actually having to pull your weapon in a real scenario, training or not. The fact that the shirt is there, as an obstacle means there is a CHANCE you can get your firearm caught in it. Plain and simple. If the shirt isn't there over it, it cannot get caught in it. Plain and simple. The Shirt being there creates a CHANCE.
You can also fire a gun with some shirt mixed in your grip. Since you've brought up your experience, what kind of professional instruction have you taken?
If you can get the muzzle on target, which if the gun is caught in the shirt, it will probably not be. You'll probably miss, shoot yourself in the lower extremities, or you are threatening innocents around you with a ricochet if you fire and your muzzle is not on target, in self-defense ranges. LOL, ohh so I'm undertrained unless I've trained with a Big Dog like your precious James Jaeger idol? Please, get over yourself and your worship of him. The people who have trained me, you've probably never heard of, because they aren't internet Gods like your precious James Jaeger idol.
Are you carrying in a retention holster? That can be just as problematic as from concealment, and at least a shirt can never jam from debris.
I own a retention holster, but I don't only carry in one. Its actually safer to carry openly WITH a retention holster. Out of the thousands of times I've drawn from one, its a perfect draw, EVERYTIME, my index finger stays along side the slide, until its on target, just as it is with ANY draw.
Also, note that no one is saying open carrying should be illegal, just that it's not the best way to carry.
I believe that everyone should carry the way that they feel best for the scenario they plan to be in. I also don't tell people they are idiots or stupid because of the way they chose to carry in a given scenario. Which is basically what James Jaeger is doing. I've carried for years while open carrying, and NONE of the doom and gloom scenarios that they say will happen has happened.
And Yeager's iraq incident CAN be seen from other viewpoints than yours. And the video had nothing to do with that, so why even bring it up?
It certainly shows a man's character no doubt.
He doesn't point to where open carry has done any bit of good, because generally, it doesn't. In fact, open carry activists got open carry banned in california, don't even try to pretend that isn't the case. They where doing it for political purposes, not for genuine self defense, and they did so in a manner specifically intended to draw attention to themselves. I have personally seen people kicked out of places simply because they where openly carrying a weapon, while I got to stay with my concealed weapons.
LOL Kommiefornia! Ohh yeah, great example! Most people won't even send firearms or ammo to that Communist State. Great data point to use though! Let me know when they ban open carry in a freedom loving State purely because of open carriers, and not because the NRA gets in there and bans open carry like they did in South Carolina. Nothing but cash pimps for the State mandatory training. Also, I've never been kicked out of a place for open carry, but it is nice to know where to never spend my money again, so it is nice to hear what companies are anti-firearm. But by all means, you should keep spending your money there, and if I am forced to go, I'll always conceal carry, just like I do now.
There is no evidence to support the theory that open carry "normalizes" the carrying of guns to the general public, of course there is none to support the opposite conclusion either, since no studies have been done.
Fuck studies, let's talk about personal experience, that I have. I never trust studies, because at their beginning they are usually flawed and biased to make things go one way or the other. Basically, they are usually bullshit from the start. The same with statistics.
And if I would happen to be open carrying, and someone came up to me and started talking about the gun I am carrying, outside of a firing range, or gunstore, that would put me on edge. To me it is a tool, and a tool capable of killing a person or causing great bodily harm, not something I want to show off, the only time I want anyone to know it even exists, is when I have to take it out to use it in defense.
Well not everyone is afraid of their shadow. I quickly assess situations like that, and I notice the people well before they walk up to me, and I've already assessed them. Its part of situational awareness. Something that every carrier should have. If some thug comes up to me, I'm going to already be in the red anyway. I will keep an eye on them and leave the area. I'm not going to converse with someone that appears as a thug in actions or in dress. The people who talk to me about carrying are NOT thugs in actions or in dress. Its not a big, tacticool, adrenaline filled fearful event. I don't have a adrenaline dump afterwards. You obviously have some issues with other people knowing you're armed. For me, its an everyday event. Its also a non-event. No big deal. The good guys don't have to hide their firearm.
Another point, is open carrying, or any behavior that lets people know you own guns can make you a target for theft. It is not unreasonable to say that someone seeing you leave your residence with a pistol on your hip would think you might have more guns, or might talk to someone who would break into your house. I definitely do not want my current neighbors to know I own guns, but than I live in a slightly shady area. Same reason I don't put gun stickers on my car, or wear gun tshirts.
Bullshit. There is only ONE documented case of this that anyone has EVER found. I'm not going to sit there, and buy into all the fear and bullshit about some FANTASY that you and others keep tirelessly repeating and regurgitating over and over again, and there is ONE data point to back up your baseless fears. It is completely an unreasonable and ridiculous fear. Well there is your problem right there, don't live in a shady area. That's probably rule number 1 of how to not get your home broken into. If you live in a shady area, get out any way that you can. Get to a rural area, ASAP. If you're a prepper, it only makes sense. Don't be in cities, suburban, or any shady area, either.
Ohh really, well what do you put your LONG GUNS IN when you transport them to disguise them so that your neighbors don't know that you own long guns, either? Do you sneak them in and out under cover of darkness to hide them from everyone? If they see you carry out a long gun case, they are going to know you have firearms in your home, anyway.
More ridiculousness. My wife or I are usually home when the other one is gone, and there is no way to tell if the house is empty because we have a garage and tinted windows on our vehicles. And my wife is just as good at shooting firearms as I am. Please, break in when I'm not home. They'll be leaving in body bags. I'm not too worried about it. I've got an alarm system with two city cops living in my neighborhood, and when I call 911, they show up in 2-3 minutes everytime. I've tested it NUMEROUS TIMES. I've also got good insurance as well if anything is ever stolen. My firearms are in a fireproof, water proof, 15 minute safe that's bolted to concrete and studs. Unless my firearm is on me, its in the safe. I'm not too worried. I'm prepared. Are you?
Just more bullshit fantasy and made up fear and irrational fears. Same regurgitated vomit that I've seen time and time again on the same old wore out points.
I find the CONCEAL CARRY ONLY people like yourself and James Jaeger to be quite Collectivist, and to use emotional and imagination driven rationalizing. I tend like to to live in the real world, and I like real world data, and not some made up fantasy bullshit.
And that cartoon is hilarious.
Your taste in cartoons sucks.
