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Spartacus wrote:
I always carry ID and will happily provide it to any officer who asks politely once he understands that I have no obligation to show it to him unless I am driving a vehicle.
An overbearing, irate officer will get nothing but truculence and will hopefully arrest me (I could use an extra $10,000 from a lawsuit).
If you ask a police officer for ID he or she will give you a business card. If they want ID from you--- hand them a business card in return. Apparently their card suffices for ID when given to us, so we are simply responding in kind. Obviously you control how much information is divulged on your business card. Might be only a name, might be a name and phone number.... whatever you want. Don't give police a card with a fake name however! Better to give nothing than something that is false.
I understand the reasoning why some of you advocate not to an ID. But I don't change my personal habits when I carry a gun. It implies that having a gun is not an ordinary activity. Same with having a voice recorder. I understand it, but again it implies that there is something out-of-the-ordinary about bearing arms. I want people to regard carrying a gun as something that is completely ordinary. Therefore I don't go out as if I'm on some "secret mission over the border" with a sterile weapon, untraceable clothes and so on. In other words, OC is not some sort of spec ops mission, you aren't going to be shot as a spy, and the secretary isn't going have "to disavow any knowledge of your activities."
I've been fingerprinted a number of times, so if they're determined and arrest me, they'll eventually know who I am regardless...
This is not meant as a criticism for those who advocate carrying no ID. I understand that choice, and I respect it.
But if I got hit by a truck-- or shot-- or struck ill-- I would kinda want someone to figure out who I am, who to notify and so on.