Please to explain for the hard of understanding...

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Originally Posted by sexobon

The term attention whoring has a very different connotation from making being armed obvious as a deterrent. Do you label all uniformed (open carrying) police officers attention whores?

it's unfortunate that you're bothered by the term...

I consider open carry to be a deliberate, conspicuous, intentional, obvious act specifically designed to draw the attention of all those around them, perhaps in the hope of "deterrence", but nonetheless to be noticed. That's the attention part. As for whoring, I am reminded of the old joke with punchline, "...we've already established what kind of woman you are, now we're just negotiating the price." They're trying really hard to be noticed. They'd consider it a failure if I didn't notice.