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Possibly the reason Mr. Beal is not afraid is that, by LAW, he is allowed to carry a firearm (openly or not) for his personal protection and he is exercising that right.

The entire world is a place where people are shooting each other. Maybe you can move to the moon? 

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What Mr. Beal means (I think) is that he is tired of people telling him that the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution somehow doesn't apply to him. 

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There IS a message sent by openly carrying a firearm. The message is that the person carrying the firearm is prepared. Criminals most likely won't knowingly target an armed citizen.

How people feel about guns, that the person carrying is scared or feels impotent, or that other people feel "nervous" around people carrying guns seems irrelevant to this discussion. 

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