Do you carry a gun for self-defense? Do you live in Indiana? Do you want to show your support for the inalienable right of self-defense? If your answer to all of these questions is "yes", then join us in making July 4^th, Independence Day 2001, Hoosier Open Carry Day.

I've been carrying openly in Bloomington for nearly 6 months. My reasons for doing this and the reactions I've encountered are documented in the articles posted on this web site. Carrying openly is a simple way to show your support for the right of self-defense while simultaneously attacking the prejudice against gunowners that pervades the general society.

Between 8% and 9% of voting age Hoosiers hold Personal Protection licenses. This is our chance to show our friends and neighbors that we are normal people; just average citizens with homes and families who are indistinguishable from everyone else except that we have chosen to exercise our right of self-defense. This is our chance to "shoot down" the stereotype of gunowners as either crazed lunatics or irresponsible ignoramuses.