you've been instrumental in creating these groups. Pot meet kettle...

distracting from your primary message this kind of thing will happen. Unless there is some kind of catastrophic social change (think "zombie apocalypse" or something similar) open carry of long guns in a non-rural environment is never going to look "normal". I also fully support the right of any private enterprise to forbid carrying of weapons on their premises.

While benefiting financially from them.

Same diff.

The expression "pot calling the kettle black" originated back when the only metals used in cookware were cast iron and copper. Kettles were hammered out of thin copper to make them lighter -- a thin-walled iron kettle would be very hard to make, and likely to crack. Since copper was more expensive, a fine copper kettle was something of a status symbol, and was kept highly polished for best appearance. So place a (black) cast-iron pot next to a shiny copper kettle, and what does the pot "see"? It sees its own reflection, which is black, and concludes that the kettle is black. It's not, of course -- it's only the pot's point of view which makes it seem so.

So the point of the phrase is "what you're seeing reflects your nature more than the nature of the thing you're looking at". NRA sees OC Texans as "weird" ? Well, they are -- but, to use another cliche, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If only the NRA could match that.

Wait for it....