I spent 3 years in Tucson Az where it was always open carry. I went around with my magnum on my hip, no gunfights like hollyweird always portrays the west, nope not one, because everyone respected each other who carried. By the way, there wasnt much crime there either, but once in a while, an illegal would try to rob a store, didnt go well for him/her/it.How about a Neighborhood watch where everyone is a concealed carry permit holder and if the lame stream media shows up, put a few rounds in their communistic direction..Let us go ahead and dismiss outright all the radicalized individuals, the arguers for argument's sake and the otherwise bored internet trolls who will in turn outright dismiss this post, either with a drive-by word's or phrase's worth of potshot, a downvote or the ever popular and intellectually mind-blowing laughing emoticon. I am likely ignoring you anyway, so do carry on.
"Protestors" rioting over the recent deaths of black criminals have already damaged, ruined, harmed or taken the property or the very lives of hundreds if not thousands of Americans coast to coast. That precedent has been established. There's no hiding it or taking back. No amount of postmodernist spin, deconstruction or factual relativism will or can change the hell many Americans have already suffered at the hands of executioners of radical political ideology and their mobs of cultist reactionaries.
The question then begs: just how universally shit-is-hitting-the-fan-bad will American life get for the rest of us in the coming days, weeks and months leading up to election 2020? Not all of us will be robbed, raped, maimed or murdered by rampaging race warrior mobs, there's just too many of us, perhaps (don't buy into a false sense of herd safety). Which leaves the rest of us who are at higher risk of receiving mob violence due to our geographical locations to play a lottery of sorts where the winners lose their homes, businesses and/or maybe get their faces kicked in or are held down while Gorillas wearing human skin rape our wives. So who will win that lottery? Who will spin the roulette wheel of normal daily routine only to have it interrupted by barbarian hordes smashing down the gates of their lives?
How far and wide will the mobs spread their violence? Will the murder and mayhem parties overflow shithole city limits and hit up the burbs? What happens once they've finished burning suburbia? Isolated homes and farms are much less anonymous. Trust me, you don't want to play those percentages (of being selected to receive pillaging) if you're the only house or farm or spread along some dark country backroad.
While it's certainly not healthy to OD on social media and 24/7 fear mongering cable news, what is damn smart is keeping one's ear to the ground so one always knows which way the wind is blowing and what blazes rage nearby. I suppose the other sort of smart question to ask ourselves is who are we going to rely on when and if the mob comes to a "silver screen" near you.
The wealthier Burbs and zip codes will be well protected by cops and Guard units, and the military; the working class areas will be left on their own, except for tracking down and arresting any uppity white proles who dare protect themselves from the hate crimes and feral animals. I doubt the 'SJWs' try more than a few, since they're cowardly animals and only prey on weakness, they aren't afraid of the police, only morons keep claiming that about these thugs, but nobody out here in the burbs is buying rubber bullets and tear gas, trust me.
But, it would be wise to form self-protection groups, kind of like a local IRA, just in case, for those in your situation. Getting outside volunteers will be made 'illegal' most likely, for those zip codes below a certain income and asset level of wealth, but you have neighboring communities, and smart people can think of some good plans and keep it off grid from the scum's protectors and enablers.
I'm a big fan of concealed carry; 'open carry' is just a disaster waiting to happen in general, as the McMichaels are fiding out. Nobdy should be having to wrestle with feral animals over their firearms as they did, they just become targets themselves. If the criminal hadn't seen the weapon, he would have kept going. As for the media, they rarely show up unless there are cops around protecting them, as they then go to extremes to make those same cops look as bad as possible. They aren't a real Press any more, they're partisan traitors and criminal associates.
My brother lives in Arizona now; lots of retired cops and military there, at least when you get away from Phoenix an Tucson. He likes the mountains, well more like rocky hills there in the northern parts, but they call them 'mountains' anyway.