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onedavetoomany wrote:
The San Mateo County Sheriff issued the following press release this afternoon. Note the "Caution" section at the bottom.
January 14, 2010 - Unloaded Open Carry
Hmm... I'd never actually send this, but if I ever did, it'd look something like this:
Dear Lt. Lunny:
I hereby invite you to the wonderful State of Colorado, which not only enjoys a crime rate far below that of your state, but in which people are allowed to Open Carry, and armed, at that.
Before arriving, however, I strongly recommend you leave your badge and weapon in California, though, as your "hypervigilent urgency" would prove to be a "potentially very dangerous situation" should you react without thought by drawing on any one of our fine, moral, and law-abiding citizens who carry, not as an "ostensible 'exercise of constitutional rights,'" but as a means of defending self, others, and property against those who would unlawfully attempt to deprive them of such.
In the meantime, perhaps retraining is in order, so that your officers are more capable of distinguishing those law-abiding citizens who openly carry a firearm from the law-breakers who usually, and illegally, carry concealed.
On second thought, I hereby withdraw my invitation, as I believe your presence in this state may merely prove to be a "potentially dangerous practice ... ostensibly an 'exercise of [your] constitutional rights'" to cross state lines.
Sincerely, etc.
Seriously: If that department is that hair-triggered to react to an open carry situation, then I recommend it retrain both its members and its citizens as to the state laws, that than attempt to dissuade law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves in accordance with the law. :banghead: