No joke. Just ask the sheriff's deputies who serve as bailiffs at any courthouse in Virginia... the people they're most afraid of is cops involved in domestic relations disputes, because they can get in through side or basement doors and evade security, and the ones most likely to bring a gun into the courthouse.
But here's the really simple answer for those who are disconnected, as this fellow seems to be, from reality: If you see someone engaged in the commission of a crime, then he's a "criminal"; but if you see someone who is not engaged in the commission of a crime, then he's "law abiding". The big problem is people shooting off their big effing mouths because they don't know what "crime" means. They think it means "things I don't like", sort of a synonym for "evil" - and this, we all recall, is the offense that got Adam and Eve kicked out of Eden: "eating of the fruit (i.e., consuming the product) of the tree (source) of the knowledge of good (things I like) and evil (things I don't like). Self-absorbed, self-important morons who act on the basis of what they like and what they don't like... if only they'd keep their opinions to themselves.
