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One of my cars has a bumpersticker that says "If you love your freedom you own a gun." I gave it some thought before putting it on the car because it clearly implies I at least own a gun, if not carry it. The first thing I noticed after putting it onis that there seemed to be alot fewer people tailgating me. Haha!
I was a little aprehensive that gun-unfriendly police might take notice of it (particularly when I drive to decidely gun-unfriendly locales, e.g. Chicago. But I've driven around Chicago a number of times and never had a problem. (Yes, I took my gun with me.) I've been stopped three times for speeding since I've had that sticker on. Never got a ticket. Only one LEO asked if I was armed, but that was because he saw my Florida permit when I was taking out my DL. I was going 83 in a 65 zone and he told me to have a nice day! (In Minnesota)
I do pay attention to make sure no cars are following me home to see where I live, but that's just good sense and an old habit anyway.
I do see in my rearview mirror when stopped that people behind me are often reading it, and in this left-wing town, I feel it's a good education for them.
I've only had two "incidents" during the years it's been on my car. Shortly after putting it on I was stopped at a red light and I was watching the car behind me, which had 4-5 high school age boys in it. The front passenger side one, tried to slide out the door and law crawl up behind my car, obviously with the intent of swiping my bumper sticker. The others were giggling, and I just kept one eye on the little shit though my side view mirror, until he was about to reach for the bumpersticker. I honked my horn and put the car in reverse. He jumped up and scrambled back to the car like a cat who had just fallen into the bathtub. His friend laughed their butts off. I turned around and shook my finger at them and scolded them "no no no!" (I thought afterward that if I had really wanted to mess with them I would have jumped out and held the kid at gunpoint and claimed he was clearly intent on carjacking me since he would have no legitimate explanation for trying to low crawl up to my car like that.)
The second incident was a note left on my car while grocery shopping, which I still have up in my office. It reads "You are an idiot. Oh please don't shoot."
Hahaha.... time will tell who is the idiot.