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Originally Posted by BigV
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People have been known to get so wrapped up in a cause that they become over zealous and behave inappropriately, sometimes even criminally. When that happens the person both distracts and detracts from the cause they advocate. In this case, it seems more likely that he was trying to draw attention to his cause when his untoward behavior, secondary to poor judgment, made him the focus of attention. I'm inclined to call it an affective behavioral disorder; or, say he's an idiot (as Aliantha implied) rather than simply call it attention whoring. There are too many other ways of gaining just as much attention without the toll this incident will take on that person's future.
There are attention whores who use firearms as a means to that end to be sure; but, not everyone who would open carry is one of them. There are valid reasons for open carry and there are misguided reasons that people have for open carry. Neither automatically constitutes attention whoring. Look at it this way: most of the people who would open carry believe it would be fine for everyone to open carry in which case they would just blend into the crowd, without distinction. It's only because they're in the minority that they're getting the attention and it's often unwanted attention. Just don't make the mistake of thinking you can get them to abandon their principles by labeling them attention whores because of it. That makes you no better than the idiot who showed up at the airport with a rifle.