Reply #99: Looks like you answered your own question.

[Atypical Liberal]

If Civil Rights do not "cause problems", they fix problems.you mean that ignorant people panic and ill-trained police over-react, then maybe you have a point.

Well there you go.

But even that happens very rarely in the places where open carry is legal, rarer still where it is fairly common.

That's because, thankfully, not many people do like this fellow and walk around a shopping center with an assault rifle slung around his neck and a pistol on his hip.

And it won't get common unless people do it, and everyone sees that the sky doesn't fall.

I don't want it to be common. I don't want the public constantly having to make a decision as to whether someone is up to no good or not, constantly re-visiting the issue of the legality of carrying firearms in public. Carry concealed.

If we went by your criteria of "causing problems", women and non-whites would not be able to vote, gays wouldn't be able to hold hands or kis in public, I wouldn't be able to read many of my favorite pieces of literature or speak about my opinions... I'm sure you get the picture.

Civil Rights do not "cause problems", they fix problems.

This is a poor analogy. None of the examples you cite cause people to wonder whether a mass shooting is about to take place.