TFred
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jsimmons wrote:
If you take some time to read a few of the State forums where OC is legal, you will soon learn that despite the legality, there are LEOs who, either through ignorance, or ideology, do not believe that OC is acceptable, and will stretch or even bend the rules a little (or a lot!) to make life unpleasant for perfectly law-abiding citizens.
Pamphlets help educate the citizen gawkers. Voice recorders help educate the supervisors of such LEOs, and in rare cases, the lawyers, judges and jurors involved in the occasional lawsuit required to make the most heinous civil violations right.
In Texas, there is less need for a voice recorder. In other States near the "front" of the OC wave, they are essential. Wisconsin is probably the front line state for OC at this time.
TFred
jsimmons wrote:
If your profile is correct, you are in Texas, where there is no Open Carry. Encounters with LEOs over the carrying of a handgun are almost non-existent, since as they say, "concealed is concealed".Given that the guy was carrying a tape recorder and the pamphlet, it just smells funny to me, that's all.
If you take some time to read a few of the State forums where OC is legal, you will soon learn that despite the legality, there are LEOs who, either through ignorance, or ideology, do not believe that OC is acceptable, and will stretch or even bend the rules a little (or a lot!) to make life unpleasant for perfectly law-abiding citizens.
Pamphlets help educate the citizen gawkers. Voice recorders help educate the supervisors of such LEOs, and in rare cases, the lawyers, judges and jurors involved in the occasional lawsuit required to make the most heinous civil violations right.
In Texas, there is less need for a voice recorder. In other States near the "front" of the OC wave, they are essential. Wisconsin is probably the front line state for OC at this time.
TFred