abdogg1684
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I work as a medic in a local department and yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a Burien police officer.
This officer was guarding his prisoner while he was receiving treatment at the hospital. I started talking to him about his Glock and mentioned I was interested in getting the Glock 27 to carry in the summer. He said he had one too and really liked it. He then mentioned how his wife is the only one who can tell when he is carrying it. I said you can always oc and then concealment isn't an issue. This is where things got interesting.
He said he would not oc because a bunch of people would call 911 and the police would show up and draw down on you and take you to the ground. I then said that oc is legal in Washington, so what would give them the right to take me down. He acknowledged that it was legal, but that the officers don't know what I might do and they need to protect themselves. He even said they might taze me. So my next question was, "You're telling me that if I'm in the grocery store shopping with my 2 year old son in the cart that the cops will take me down and possibly taze me if I am oc'ing?" He said it very well could happen. I was astonished. From this conversation I figured that he had never run across anyone who was oc'ing.
I have to say that this guy was not a jerk and was very cool to talk to. He just has a completely warped idea of what is ok for officers to do in an oc situation.
I work as a medic in a local department and yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a Burien police officer.
This officer was guarding his prisoner while he was receiving treatment at the hospital. I started talking to him about his Glock and mentioned I was interested in getting the Glock 27 to carry in the summer. He said he had one too and really liked it. He then mentioned how his wife is the only one who can tell when he is carrying it. I said you can always oc and then concealment isn't an issue. This is where things got interesting.
He said he would not oc because a bunch of people would call 911 and the police would show up and draw down on you and take you to the ground. I then said that oc is legal in Washington, so what would give them the right to take me down. He acknowledged that it was legal, but that the officers don't know what I might do and they need to protect themselves. He even said they might taze me. So my next question was, "You're telling me that if I'm in the grocery store shopping with my 2 year old son in the cart that the cops will take me down and possibly taze me if I am oc'ing?" He said it very well could happen. I was astonished. From this conversation I figured that he had never run across anyone who was oc'ing.
I have to say that this guy was not a jerk and was very cool to talk to. He just has a completely warped idea of what is ok for officers to do in an oc situation.