Wall Street Journal editorial board member Nancy deWolf Smith wrote an opinion editorial for today's issue, discussing the problems inherent in the open carry movement. One of her stronger points is that:

Most of the time, citizens who carry weapons in public places are doing it for protection, and that means concealment. They don't want their handgun easily grabbed by some idiot in a checkout line, and they don't want a potential aggressor to know what they have on them or where it is.