Interesting, most of those who are strong supporters of LEO again stay out of another thread where their comrades have banded together to trample a citizens rights. Where is your public statements of outrage of this? Or is this just "another isolated" incident?
There is no doubt SVG I am a strong supporter of law enforcement along with the aspect all laws apply to all equally.
As discussed between us and others before there are some bad officers but by far there are very good officers. In this reported incident there is as I acknowledged earlier that sempercarry was involved in and suggested a path to address those issues, with the added information as to unloaded, no holster or other equipment.
Now we see a few days later another forum member was there and had mostly no issue except for his unloaded magazines which again outside the scope of the RCW's. The two should compare notes to see the difference of just a couple days with drastically different results.
I do not doubt that one officer can make a good or a poor encounter which has happened to me when I was dealing with the city of Yakima Ordinances. I was awaiting a meeting with the chief and an officer seemly want to be nosy or impress someone asked what I was talking to the chief about, so I told him politely that the city had out dated ordinance that were prohibiting lawfully carried firearms in the city parks and that State Preemption repeals that ordinance and his position was that he did not want to argue semantics and he knew the Chief well and know what he is going to tell me and so I said okay what is he going to tell me.
His reply was that if he saw me carrying a gun in a park he would cite me and see me in court, so I said okay well lets see what the Chief says.
After the meeting where the Chief agreed completely agreed with me and that he supported law abiding citizens to lawfully carry and that if I was ever cited, he said just bring it up to the Judge and the charge would be thrown out. The Chief later also assisted me with the City Council to have this and a couple of other ordinances removed.
As to the Officer that was nosy when I left told him nope you were wrong and the Chief agreed with me.
SVG your reply mostly directed at supporters of law enforcement and trying to entice them into opposing your position well here it is. In my eyes you are on the extreme side of issues with reduced laws and let the citizens take care of matters and I am more toward the conservative side acknowledging there are those who need that protection as there will be those who will want to take advantage of others be it with current laws or reduced laws as you advocate. There will be those still even armed with be at a greater disadvantage.
Another issue with extremist is that they are wanting to live in a time that benefit them mostly and I live as many do in the now, today this usually cause for contention.
sempercarry I still do recommend following through in a clam well informed professional manner.
