If you want to carry a gun in your car, go for it. In your house, I'll support you all the way. I have mine there. Even if you want to conceal it, go for it. But, I don't really see the need for the hand cannon on your hip at the grocery store in today's society. Maybe it's just me.
Things like this are why I never joined the NRA.
Boom,
I think you are failing to understand the logic of the NRA and the anti-gun lobby.
When you look at the position and strategy of the anti-gun lobby, it is pretty obvious that their goal is a complete and total ban on private citizens owning (if not all, most) firearms. To reach that end, the anti-gun folks are trying to remove our rights in stages:
1. Classify a broad spectrum of guns as "assault weapons".
2. Legislate against possession or sale of ^^^these evil weapons.
3. Repeat 1 & 2 with handguns.
4. Restrict right to carry/transport weapons to the point where people will not even bother.
5. Pass laws to make ammo more expensive, difficult to get, or illegal.
Another problem with the anti-gun lobby is that they are liars, idiots, and totally dishonest about what their goals are. They say they want "common sense gun laws", but what they really want is a nation without (legal) guns. They are willing to take victories piece by piece, and will pretent to agree to victories smaller than their real goal to get what they want.
Obviously, the majority of the members of the NRA do not open carry nor desire to. Still, I want the NRA to draw their battle lines as far to the right as possible and refuse to give an inch to those who would restrict our rights. Any attempts to meet in the middle or "take a step their way" will just result in giving up a right only to have the ant-gun folks re-draw the lines and ask gun owners to take another step to the middle.
Obviously, private citizens should not be allowed to own thermonuclear weapons, but if that is the stance that the NRA has to take to protect our rights to keep and bear arms, then so be it.