independence
Regular Member
My lead foot almost got me in trouble this morning, while CCing. I was listening to a very interesting radio segment and lost touch with my speedometer majorly. Oops....
A county sheriff car pulled me over and I handed the officer my permit and license together. I asked him if it was okay if I reached in the glove box for my insurance card and he said, "You don't have any weapons in there, do you?" I said "no" and he said "okay". I then got him the insurance and he went back to his car and checked my license. He came back somewhat quickly and told me that I was lucky because he had a call and to slow down. Then he left. He was generally pretty courteous.
I was thinking, though. Someone mentioned to me once that this idea of handing the cop the permit, as I did, is training the cops wrong. It's giving in to the idea that we should have to announce the exercising of our right.
What do you think? Are you in the camp that this is a courtesy that we should show law enforcement, or perhaps a (un)necessary evil that we must comply with in order to keep from finding ourselves slammed on the concrete? Or do you think that proactively supplying your permit is training the police that your right to carry a gun should be automatically called into question?
A county sheriff car pulled me over and I handed the officer my permit and license together. I asked him if it was okay if I reached in the glove box for my insurance card and he said, "You don't have any weapons in there, do you?" I said "no" and he said "okay". I then got him the insurance and he went back to his car and checked my license. He came back somewhat quickly and told me that I was lucky because he had a call and to slow down. Then he left. He was generally pretty courteous.
I was thinking, though. Someone mentioned to me once that this idea of handing the cop the permit, as I did, is training the cops wrong. It's giving in to the idea that we should have to announce the exercising of our right.
What do you think? Are you in the camp that this is a courtesy that we should show law enforcement, or perhaps a (un)necessary evil that we must comply with in order to keep from finding ourselves slammed on the concrete? Or do you think that proactively supplying your permit is training the police that your right to carry a gun should be automatically called into question?
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