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Mr. Coffman,
Thank you for coming in yesterday to "vent" about your contact with our officers. (Blow it out your ass)I would like to set a few things straight and to assure you that you are not being singled out nor are we somehow going to damage your property or give you a valid reason for a law suit. (Any of you nutcases show up in Oly with a gun will get the same treatment, lawsuit or not) Our officers are aware and have been trained recently about the Open Carry issue and your Constitutional right to bear arms. (We have heard about your agitation and we think it is stupid.)
Our community, including our police force, is not and probably never will be at ease with people walking around with a gun or any other instrument capable of inflicting deadly force.(Open carry of guns are for us, not for creeps like you. It gives us the willies thinking about people like you with guns) You are right in your opinion that mere calling 911 to report a person openly carrying a weapon does not, in and of itself, meet the legal thresholds for violations of RCWs 9.41.270 or 9.41.300. This has been ruled upon by our State Supreme Court and other courts around the country. (We don't have the law on our side yet, but we think we canget you weirdo's into backing off with a little pressure.)
State law is clear about where a person's right to possess or have control over a weapon is prohibited. (You got your gun "right to carry concealed" taken away from us years ago, but we are working on it. It is also clear about a jurisdiction's right to limit access to public facilities: (We know that our sign sealing the police station is illegal, but we are not going to take it down, never, never, never!
You know of course that our officers have to investigate all circumstances, each and every time, to determine if a violation of any oftheseRCWs has occurred. (We will harass you guysevery time, over and over, till you go away.)
We received two calls yesterday about a man carrying an automatic pistol on his hip. The complaints were not specific as to what you were doing other than you were in the process of walking downtown. As you know we check out this type of complaint quickly since it involvespotentially adeadly weapon and thelikelihood that the individual carrying the weapon may want to do harm to others.(We saw you out the window of the cruiser and decided to do an illegal stop for no good reason.)
As I explained beforeofficers have a right to protect themselves and that is their first priority as they approach any situation. (We may draw on you to freak you out.) Our mission is to protect life, property and individual rights. (Except the Rights you are trying to express, we hate that.) I'm sure you can agree with me that our mission is in line with what a reasonable person would expect from their police force. (The liberals in Olympia are working to get rid of all guns; you make us look bad if they see creeps like you walking around with guns. They will yell at us and they are the ones we must obey.) Our officers cannot protect others without first arriving safely at the incident scene, evaluating the circumstances with the minimal facts known to them at the time, and making sure any weapons that you may have on you are rendered safe at least for the brief time the officers are in your presence. (We are going to roll up on you, scream at you to obey, search youand your weapons and get a charge out of watching your eyes get bigand your face sweat.)
Our officers will conduct themselves professionally and treat you with respect. (We have no legal standing to throw your ass in jail, yet.) Our officers should not engage you in a philosophical debate about the merits of Open Carry or your rights as a citizen to own or carry arms.(If you want to get awaywithout being thrown down on, don't argue with us about what islegal, we know we are in the wrong, so screw you.)Officers should not coerce you into carrying your weapon concealed or trying to get you to change your behavior so long as it is legal behavior.(We hope the pressure and fear we inflict will be enough for this whole thing to die away.) You will likely get our officers discussing your behavior which may have lead to people calling 911. (We will make up calls if we have to.)We expect them to do this. (We are going to jump on your web blog too.)
I understand that you may have engaged in a discussion about the legalities of Open Carry. (Again, I don't care what the law says.)I strongly urge you not to do this. (We will get physical with you if you try to use your Constitutional rights either to debate us, point out our thug tactics, or otherwise bother us.) My reasoning is simple; when you or the officers engage in a debate people on either side of the issue tend not to listen and therefore the debate is not productive nor satisfying to either party. (We don't want to hear it.) I also urge you to avoid staging any "test" or "scenario" that might further your nationwide efforts to engage the police on the Open Carry issue. ( You bring your open carry buddies down to Olympia and start walking around, we will open a can of whoop-ass on you and them, since you all probably don't have a dime or an educational degree in the whole lot of you.) Having read your website and many others I believe that is one of your missions to "educate" the police about Open Carry. In my opinion that is unnecessary. We are watching you and taking names. It only takes one mistake or threatening language for us to cry "terrorism and shut down the whole lot of you. We are Watching.
Mr. Coffman, I want to urge you and others who carry weapons openly to be very careful in the way you conduct your personal actions especially while you interact with others. (Look, there is a chance I could get a letter of reprimand in my file if this keeps going and I am not going to let a bunch of gun nuts spoil my retirement, so stop before I have to pull out all the stops.) People whoopenly carry weapons are not immune to human frailties of arguments, disputes, victimization, etc., etc. (Maybe you can be provoked into something stupid. We will shoot you if we get the chance.) I am only stating this because I worry about you inadvertently placing yourself in danger of being shot. (That would back you bastards off, eh?)Please, if you notice the police in your proximity, especially if you see them approaching you, stop and keep yourhands in plain sight. Obey every command they maygive you.(Please make it easy for us to get you disarmed and pliant.)
We realize that people such as yourself haveintervened to prevent people from being seriously wounded or killed at the hands of suicidal or homicidal people. (We know that guns are not inherently dangerous, we just don't like you having them.) This week's Colorado church shooting is a great example of it. Thank you for not entering the police lobby the other day which might have subjected our staff to unnecessary alarm. (We would have shot you and stated to the news media that you were a man trying to get into the Police station with a gun.) I'll let you know if it would be appropriate at a future time to have you meet with our officers. I'm not sure it would be productive or desired from our officers' point of view. (We are hard core cowards who are afraid of people who assert their rights in a free society. Wewant to stay as far away from you as possible.)
If you have questions or just want to talk please give me a call. Stay out of Olympia if you know what's good for you.)
Best regards, (Drop dead, Wacko)
Bill Wilson, Lt.
O.P.D.
