surprise_i'm_armed wrote:BayouHazard and TrueFlog:
I do not understand your adversarial stance with
LEO's asking about your gun. I feel that you are setting
yourselves up for a worse confrontation than is necessary.
This is why:
What is this need you folks have to play cat and mouse with
a LEO who can make your day infinitely worse than it needs to be?
For far too many years, we have tolerated the notion that insufficient deference towards police justifies making your day "infinitely worse than it needs to be". Actively challenging a LEO's authority is seen as "deserving" any harsh treatment that might follow.
The facts that you have CHL's indicate that you have been good
citizens over the years.
So why go mano v. mano with The Man?
I question why "The Man" wants to go mano-a-mano with people he knows have been good citizens over the years.
I'm not bashing LEOs. I support Peace Officers, but not those LEOs (I can't bring myself to call them "peace officers") who take such an us-versus-them approach to their work, who treat the public as the enemy, who treat every encounter as an opportunity to fish for something bigger.
And lastly, let me say that my most recent encounter was with a DPS trooper who was courteous, professional, didn't inquire about guns, patiently shined his flashlight while I dug through the stack of expired insurance cards to find the current one, and quickly released me with just a warning (it was almost midnight, he was looking for drunks, and I hadn't had a drop). He did his job and didn't go fishing for anything else.