Justice402
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I just want to set the record straight for some anti-gun people. I found this website after reading an article about individuals openly carrying guns in Starbucks. The comment was made that carrying a gun in a Starbucks removes tranquility. How? The people should feel safer should some brain surgeon decide to walk in and hold up the store and or patrons. They may think twice and actually go rob one of the stores where they know the merchant does not allow open gun carrying. Their chances of pulling off the robbery is much better in an "anti-gun" business. For the record I am a police officer of over twenty years and I support what you and your members believe in. Some in my profession might argue that if we were sent to a business on a "shots fired call" we may shoot an innocent gun owner believing they are the suspect. This is possible and this is why all of you need to understand as well that should you find yourself in a situation such as this, please immediately cooperate with the police place your weapon down in an unthreatening manner (don't have the weapon pointing at the police officer as you put it down) because he will not know the good from the bad until everyone is secured and all weapons are secured. Remember when the police arrive on the scene, their focus will be the gun in your hand. They will not be focused on your "in open view" holster on your hip. I do support your beliefs and feel the problem isn't the honest gun owner but the liberal law makers and judges that let defendants that have used a gun for criminal purposes off the hook too easy. When someone uses a gun for criminal purposes there should be a minimum sentence of twenty years, thats right twenty years even if it were their first offense. They would think twice if such a law would exist.
I just want to set the record straight for some anti-gun people. I found this website after reading an article about individuals openly carrying guns in Starbucks. The comment was made that carrying a gun in a Starbucks removes tranquility. How? The people should feel safer should some brain surgeon decide to walk in and hold up the store and or patrons. They may think twice and actually go rob one of the stores where they know the merchant does not allow open gun carrying. Their chances of pulling off the robbery is much better in an "anti-gun" business. For the record I am a police officer of over twenty years and I support what you and your members believe in. Some in my profession might argue that if we were sent to a business on a "shots fired call" we may shoot an innocent gun owner believing they are the suspect. This is possible and this is why all of you need to understand as well that should you find yourself in a situation such as this, please immediately cooperate with the police place your weapon down in an unthreatening manner (don't have the weapon pointing at the police officer as you put it down) because he will not know the good from the bad until everyone is secured and all weapons are secured. Remember when the police arrive on the scene, their focus will be the gun in your hand. They will not be focused on your "in open view" holster on your hip. I do support your beliefs and feel the problem isn't the honest gun owner but the liberal law makers and judges that let defendants that have used a gun for criminal purposes off the hook too easy. When someone uses a gun for criminal purposes there should be a minimum sentence of twenty years, thats right twenty years even if it were their first offense. They would think twice if such a law would exist.