a law enforcement officer openly carries a weapon for its “intimidation factor.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53586034-90/carry-law-mcentee-open.html.csp

Wow, this is just a joke. I hope all goes well with this bill and you all can stop being harassed by the cops.

I will probably start open carrying at some point and it would be nice to do it, especially in light of all this attention the the topic.

What a crock...some cop wears his arms Open Carry for the "intimidation factor". Well Mr Chief...that is fine, I hope my OC intimidates your officers.

That article is intensely frightening on several different levels...

He said that in his 20 years as a policeman, "we’ve had very few problems and concealed-weapons holders. It’s not a big issue."
But open-carry is different, he adds. For example, a law enforcement officer openly carries a weapon for its "intimidation factor. In law enforcement, that’s the message you send."

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Silly me. For all these years I've been thinking that the purpose of open carry is to make the tool more readily available.

I am forced to acknowledge that what Hitler did was right to him, and to the German people. Basically, Hitler was both wrong, and right.

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What Hitler did was wrong on every level! He was a bigotted sociopath, and, when it came to Jews and homosexuals, he was the absolute definition of the term "mass murderer". Hitler initiated a war that cost 60,000,000 lives for no tangible reason other than his demented dream of world conquest, and the furtherance of "the master race". The majority of the German people did not think he was "right", but understood that he was in control of the military, police and judicial system. They had little choice other than acquiescence... when the options were imprisonment and/or execution for treason. The only place Hitler was "right" was in his own seriously disturbed mind. Perhaps if they had OC in 1930-1940s Germany, things might have been a bit different. Pax...

^LOL...Welcome to quotes in signature lines, good sir.