Open Season on Gun Carriers
So even if you abide by all of the laws and clear every bit of red tape, the cops can still take your gun away. Seriously. Read the Story Here
It’s Atlanta and I’m not really sure what the guns laws are there but I’m pretty sure that the police still shouldn’t be punishing law abiding citizens. What’s worse, the lawyer who got slammed with carrying a concealed weapon appealed the original decision and still lost. I guess we even have asshats in the First Circut Court of Appeals.
Most of you already know that I don’t trust police. It’s not because they’re the police, I just don’t trust anyone. Police are just normal people who have personal agendas just like everyone else. For the record, I don’t find them any more malicious than a loan underwriter or even the old lady that decides whether I should collect unemployment insurance or not. The point is that each of these jobs are performed by everyday people and they have the ability to screw up and let their personal intentions get in the way.
I can assure you though, if I’m carrying and someone, police officer or not, points a gun at me it will be the last thing they do. Unless, of course, they’re faster which means it will be the last thing I do.
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Was this officer a little over zealous…it sounds so (though that article is also clearly written with a slant…it's hardly close to "down the middle"…and I know you and I are both intelligent enough to understand that. (Did the lawyer get a bit of harassment, yeah it certainly seems like it. (Though I would not be surprised at all if the lawyer wasn't a bit uncooperative with the process.) And yes, it is his right, to carry the concealed weapon. However, there is nothing he could ever say to me to convince me that he needed to have his gun (nor is there anything you could tell me to convince me you need yours). Sadly it seems few if any have the power to take down the NRA and bring about some reasonable sense of the "need" for guns. I'm all for having the toughest gun laws possibly (and as note, Massachusetts, like NYC, indeed has some of the most stringent if not the most in America). However, I will acquiesce, that in this instance, things sound to at least have gotten somewhat out of hand.
I echo Regan's comments. Like Jeff, I don't trust police. My reasons are more personal, because I have been assaulted by a police officer. I believe that persons drawn to to be policemen (or women) have as part of their "psyche" a need for power over others. I believe that these officers use this power to their advantage and when they make mistakes do whatever it takes, (Lie, cheat, create false evidence, have fellow officers lie, cheat, cover-up) for them and that the regular joe and jane citizen become the pawn in their need for self-fulfillment and power. (I now step down from my soap box.)