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Fishing for the police's attention?
If you receive attention from the police for exercising your freedom in a lawful manner then there is something wrong with the police, not you.
That is why people open carry.
Otherwise the "only cops should have guns" mentality will prevail through complacency and eventually having a firearm would be illegal.
The kid's age (if that is him pictured) and the way he come across to police sounded borderline rehearsed IMO. I seriously doubt it was a random encounter that happened to be audio recorded and then uploaded to YouTube.Originally Posted by Elhuero
Similiar to this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKSIkosjOc
personally I think the video I posted and the one you posted are utterly dissimilar.
this video will give more insight into what I'm getting at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoAGk...eature=channel
Can't, don't want to upset the masses.Nevermind?
Come on Bear get it out
Not entirely....probably another cops vs. pets wisecrack
My pee-pee still stings... don't stick it in the crazy!!! HAHA.
^^^ Was going to say something along the lines of that concerning the "right" to open carry.
The police in this case were simply responding to a call, I don't think there is anything wrong with that. As mentioned before, it's generally a good thing when police respond to calls about a guy with a gun because they won't know if it is a bad guy with a gun or a good gun with a gun unless they check it out. Believe it or not they do get calls about "a guy with a gun" who is actually waving it around pointing it at people. That would be a bad guy. But they get the same calls with no further elaboration then "there's a guy with a gun" about good guys with guns on their hips. The general public freaks out way too easily so the problem actually falls on "them".
I think the guy open carrying was cool and so were the police in this case. They talked like real people and no one disrespected the other. This shows that police and citizens can actually work together. These two officers were very good cops in my opinion even if they did ask for his ID.
Our rights are like a muscle if we don't exercise them we will loose them.
My 2 cents
Any time I've ever called the police, they always ask why I'm calling them. I've called about suspicious people, and worse, before. The person on the phone always asks me, "Well what exactly are they doing?"
So when someone calls in with "There is a man with a gun!" and the dispatcher asks "What is he doing with the gun?" There should be a difference in the way the police respond depending on whether the caller says, "He's robbing a 7-11!" or "Well, right now it looks like he's shopping for cereal, but earlier he was eyeballing the milk!"
Either way the police still have to go, and still should be cautious, but it seems like it'd be pretty easy to judge the situation if when you approach the person, they are just reading a magazine and eating a strawberry tart while they wait on their latte when you arrive.
Plus, let's say that a guy is walking down the street with a gun, you approach him, and he tells you that he's just walking to the store to buy some smokes. Everything sounds fine and you let him go. If he blasts the convenience store guy or not isn't up to the police, and neither is guessing in the dark at what his intentions might be.
"There are no finger prints under water."
Cop: hey, you with the gun plainly out in the open where everyone can see it... whatcha doing?
Person: Well I WAS going to go commit an armed robbery, maybe get in a few homicides while I was out. Whew am I glad you stopped me and asked!
/sarcasm
All very good points, Stuart.
Any man with a gun who is also eating a strawberry tart is suspicous...
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