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This is America and we can dress as clean cut or gangsta as we want, ok, but his shirt is the typical copy of the style popularized by hoodlums in order to carry a sawed off.
His ultra large Tshirt is what a gangsta wears not a middle class working man or family man.
In fact his stupidity at not letting the cop;s know he was strapped was a sign he is a bit stupid. Top me it does not matter if its the law or not.
On a dark lonely road a traffic stop is ultra dangerous for cop's and I would expect them to be already "on edge" and I would want them to know right away that I am a good guy at least that I am no instinctual threat, and one way is to roll down the windows before they walk up, keep my hands on the wheel , have my license and papers already out in the dash and immediately tell them I am OC or CC.
I dont care whether I do or do not have to tell them if I am armed, I do anyways.
In fact I have been un-lawfully armed in the far past both on my person CC and Car CC and I have only 1 time out of about 5 had my gun impounded and that was by 1 of a 2 officer partner team, the 2nd officer was against taking my pistol , the impouding officer was a woman who just did not like me period so I felt it was a personal thing over a law thing.
So 4 out of 5 times down in San Diego CA in the very late 80's and 90's during the crack shooting wars in east San Diego in the bad neighborhoods I lived in I was stopped as many times and always let go with my loaded guns in tact.
What I noticed was 1) I am white,( fact of life it helps), 2) I am very articulate, 3) I am clean cut , 4) I drive clean vehicles, and some ancillary things are that I am pro cop and was a Paramedic who kept a scanner and jumped in the fray to help cops when ever I could that does not mean they knew me because they would rotate in and out of the eastern division often, in any even they are smart men & women with ultra quick instincts for knowing a god guy vs a bad guy.
The point is it pays to look like a good guy and not like M&M or some other hip hop slacker wit an attitude.
Sure its his right to wear a dam pink diaper in public if he wants to, but we are members of a movement and like the Marine Core you are part of the greater whole, when you join forces in unison as an OC man you are a lead representative of a minority activist & rights group representing the majority you must know that people judge you immediately why what you wear and how to comport yourself.
