I mean, juries deliberate well in open carry states :)
My bias, fwiw, is that most folks are still capable of having reasonable conversations once out of the sphere of politics where tribal loyalties tell them what they're supposed to believe and whom they're supposed to decide. I was just reading a write-up of a mini-public in Deschutes, OR where a participant mentioned how he gave up trying to figure out the others' party loyalties after a while.
I mean, juries deliberate well in open carry states :)
My bias, fwiw, is that most folks are still capable of having reasonable conversations once out of the sphere of politics where tribal loyalties tell them what they're supposed to believe and whom they're supposed to decide. I was just reading a write-up of a mini-public in Deschutes, OR where a participant mentioned how he gave up trying to figure out the others' party loyalties after a while.