sweetnsauer
Regular Member
Your Mayor is Mr Burke Jones. I'd contact him. Your Police Jury meets every 2 weeks. You may want to address them with your concerns if Chief Martin seems unable to understand basic english. If you have a mailing address for the GPD get it to me so I can see about adding it to our (LOCAL's) list of LE agencies who need to receive a mailer from us. I just mailed one to the Chief of DeQuincy Police Dept on Monday. Chief Martin can get one in his mailbox too if he needs one.
Yes, at this point I was the police department to be receiving mail, emails, in-person visits and everything else to carry the message across. I don't want to go into town one day and have some idiot cop pull his gun on me. I also fear an non-uniformed or off duty policeman pulling a gun on me because I will have no way of knowing he/she is a LEO! And how do you react to a random person pulling a gun on you? ...not kindly! I want them ALL to know that OC is 100% legal. I don't want anything bad to happen or anyone to ever get hurt over the ignorance of St Helena cops. So please do send a "mailer" to Martin, and the rest of the crew. I would also like to become active in town and pass out flyers or whatever other media LOCAL prescribes (btw, I've joined LOCAL).
Good idea. I will definitely bring Chief Martin's linguistic deficiencies (evident inability to comprehend basic English) to the attention of city council. I don't know if it will be helpful, but my mother is good friend's with Ken Carter, former mayor of Greensburg. I do not know Mayor Jones, but perhaps a meeting is in order.
But please help me! While I may be intelligent and educated in the matter of my rights and certain portions of the law, I'm a newbie to dealing with police and local government in this way. I don't know the CoC (Chain of Command) and only vaguely understand some of the procedures and protocols I need to follow here.
And what if they actually DO arrest me? I would not be surprised, because I've watched my brother and other innocent people be awaken by a knock at the door and drug off to jail for nothing. I'm not afraid of being arrested itself, but some other things worry me... like an expensive bail, how long I might be there, etc. And I'm supposing that IF they do, then I have grounds for a big stinky lawsuit I could use to make positive changes for the right to bear arms...
EDIT: I've also contrived what I think may be a better response to that old "do you have a permit" BS line... We all seem to respond, basically: "I don't need one". But that answer seems to acknowledge that such a thing actually exists! The better response, me thinks, would be: "There is no such thing as an 'open carry permit' in this state".
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