Posted by santuro on Sunday, September 23, 2012 04:49 AM Pacific Report Abuse
@rodney: Thanks for response. Well, we have to agree to disagree. You said that I wouldn't stop a dude that is driving right and give me no PC or reasonable suspicion. Same with the dude carrying an assault rifle on his shoulder at the Wal-Mart. If he doesn't do anything else wrong, I can't tauch him. And if he is in fact a felon, all I can do is live him alone while he is smiling and breaking the law right in front of me. You don't see the glitch in the system? Open carry law makes almost impossible for us to enforce the felon in possession of a firearm law. So far, we, cops, go around back and forth talking semantics. That in itself is a proof that the law is faulty. Open carry is the problem, not the solution. And the military situation has no application here. I too, been in the military since I was 17 yoa. Tactically, an individual holding a rifle on his shoulder is less able to defend himself against an assailant than a dude with empty hands. I can demonstrate to you that in a town full of open carry people, I can just walk around and fill up my trunk with weapons taken away from everybody. And a bad guy only needs one gun. He will find an older person that carry a gun and lives under the false sense of open carry security, take his gun, maybe even kill him, and go about his criminal business. Very easy for felons that can not get a firearm to just rob people of their open carried guns anywhere, anytime