yes i thank they were just doing thier job answering the call from nabors
Thank you. If you will answer my questions, the rest of us will be able also to judge whether they were doing their job.
Separately, I cannot reconcile the police comment that the neighbors should mind their own business with the idea that the police were just doing their job.
Self-defense/self-preservation is almost as fundamental a human right as there is. Right up there with food and shelter. Why on earth would police have any
legitimate interest in whether a person is carrying a gun on his own property while doing yard work? Are the police going to come and check a phone report that, "A man is fixing his roof." Or, "Oh, my god! Come quick! I see a man tending vegetables in his garden!"
The police comment about neighbors minding their own business was a misdirection, a mis-assignment of responsibility. The police are just as responsible for their actions as anybody else. The dispatcher could have asked, "Where is the gun?" "What is he doing with it?" And so on. Also, the cops could have just observed the OP from a distance. For all their comment that the neighbors should mind their own business, the police were certainly willing to be the agents injecting the neighbor's concern into yours.