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cleveland wrote:
If I witness an act of violence against someone, I think it's my civic duty to call the police. There is no law, but there certainly is a moral responsibility.
Accepting your argument...
You see your neighbor (down the street) violate the law (discharge of firearm in city limits, residential area, people walking and children playing in the neighborhood).
You exercise your "moral responsibility" and call the police. LEO comes, and investigates the crime. They issue a warrant for the individual who discharged the firearm. All is good, right?
Now, while investigating, LEO notices your immediate neighbor is armed. All of a sudden, LEO fixates on your immediate neighbor (not the guy who was shooting, and LEO knows this from other witness statements). They begin with, "is that gun real?" They continue with "what kind is it? It is loaded?" Your neighbor cooperates and answers, after all they are after the OTHER guy, and everybody knows it. As soon as you neighbor says, "yep, loaded, cocked and locked," LEO goes on a rant about how this/that isn't appropriate or legal. How you, and your neighbor don't NEED to carry. LEO now fixates on your neighbor, and he end up going to jail for having broken no law.
Your neighbor is now in jail, the press publishes some rubbish about a setup, and the entire city/state gets the PERCEPTION that OC isn't legalbut you did your "moral duty."
Can't happen, not in Wisconsin, right?
Well, here you go:
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/view_topic.php?id=31264&forum_id=57
I ain't saying you're wrong, I ain't attacking any individual or position.
I am saying that ones actions almost always have unintended consequences.