sudden valley gunner
Regular Member
OK, so we have figured out that starting civil and breaking off the "conversation" as quickly as possible is the right way to go and generally what most of us do when interacting with LEO.
How about private citizens? They are a whole other ball of wax... With civilians I have had both great encounters and horrible(where I had to call the police) I personally like to talk to people, so if a conversation comes up about me carrying, I'll usually stop what I'm doing if I can and talk. How about you guys? Just sticking to private citizens now.
I am pretty much the same way I found carrying has started many great conversations, many who consider themselves "anti" a few months ago I had a 40 min conversation with an "anti" at Starbucks, she said this would have happened if she didn't feel comfortable with me. I was able to ask her many questions from her viewpoint and counter many of her arguments with reason. (She was very anti-republican too, my ability not to be a fan of Republicans, helped too I think). At one time I felt like making a shirt that said "Go Ahead and Ask".