I'll respond to your post, because I can respect that you generally debate from an open minded pov as opposed to some of the jackals who will be all over this thread... HA! You must not remember me from the amputee thread! J/K first off, no I'm not a LEO. Second, there was a grievous typo in that last post; I meant to say, "Didn't give your name", not "did". I am not advocating that anyone give up their rights, or the belief that you should just cordially answer any question posed simply because there is no apparent animosity. I think you should keep your name to yourself and exercise your rights to the fullest extent. I don't think your typo was grievous, and I personally have no problem exchanging pleasantries with a cop in passing. I'm a very polite person. I don't think I could stop my self from saying "Hi there!" to someone that greeted me even if I wanted to. But I won't be giving up any rights if I am illegally detained
There are a large amount of people here though that do the open carry movement a huge disservice with their blind hatred of anything LEO. I think what you may not understand is people who OC generally have to love their freedom and rights before that decide to exercise one of those rights that are so unusual like OC. So any mistrust (read understanding for how LEA operate) for cops OCers have, almost certainly showed up before the OC began.So I'm musing. I don't think they should have the right to check the ID of any one simply because they are carrying a weapon; but I do think they should show up at the scene of any reported MWAG, each and every time, no matter how commonplace it gets. Why? Because the gun might be owned by a bad guy? The guy might be planning a crime? The guy might be a felon that forgot to hide his gun? I think if you really think about exactly what kind of advantage the BG has by OCing that he did not have CC you'll realize that insisting cops respond to every MWAG call as if a crime is happening just propagates the belief that the act of OC itself is a crime. Now if the cop has finished his 5-0 flog behind his favorite bill-board and is bored I don't care if he wants to go do a drive by. But if there's no RAS evident he should be discouraged from fishing for RAS in the hope of caging someone. That could be as simple as driving by. That could be as intense as observing the person in question for a few moments before approaching them to see if they run or do something stupid. If that approach consists of "How goes?", "Great officer, yourself?" and the person in question chooses to end it there, the officer would be in the wrong to continue pressing the situation. Is it really that painful to be asked how your day is going?