"Long guns (rifles / shotguns) do not have to be concealed, but must be carried in a manner not calculated to cause alarm, and do not require a license."

So, I was watching a YouTube video not long ago set in a suburb of Dallas. It started with a police car rolling up on a guy walking down a residential street with a rifle in his hand. Two cops, clearly very nervous, ask him what he's doing and why he's carrying a gun big enough to take down big game.

He told him he just liked to feel safe.

They told him several neighbors had called 911 to express alarm.

He replied that was their problem, and that he wasn't doing anything to cause alarm.

"Man, I'm alarmed," said one of the cops. "What are you doing strolling around a residential neighborhood with a rifle?"

All he would say is that he liked to feel safe. In the end, there was nothing the police officers could do. The guy, who lived in that neighborhood, just kept walking around open carrying a rifle. Parents pulled their kids inside from playing and everyone felt a lot less safe .

It later turned out that the guy is some sort of an open-carry fanatic who walks around residential neighborhoods with a rifle just to prove he can.