If you were eating in a busy restaurant, and you saw someone sitting enjoying their meal with others, but you noticed they were openly carrying a gun

Safer. Most people who make the very serious choice to carry are responsible. I've carried for years. I don't open carry though...I think open carry alarms most people, rightly or wrongly. I have close relatives who are in law enforcement, and they will be the first to say that the police can't always be there quickly in a crisis. I look at all the recent shootings and think that in most instances if a responsible and well-trained civilian was carrying as the situation unfolded, perhaps it would have ended differently.