Fallschirjmäger
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Oh, my dear, dear Primus, how you miss the point.You missed the THAT IDIOT part..... nothing to do for anyone else carrying guns.... doesn't affect a regular normal open carrier. Its on that dude that they will avoid. The word that HE is trouble will be spread. Hence them knowing him on a first/last name basis.
If anything he's drawn NEGATIVE attention to normal people so they'll be paying extra attention to the next guy who is a good dude.
No matter how this is spun,.. he's setting the movement back not forward, undoing hard work of others.
"...Its on[ly?] that dude that they will avoid. The word that HE is trouble will be spread..." You've just admitted that he's won, that in the future they are going to avoid starting confrontations with him. And yes, the word WILL spread, and more people will exercise their rights, and the police will learn that those people "are trouble" and they'll be avoided as well.
The alternative is that the police will 'start paying special attention.' As we already have an admission by the police that the citizen's conduct was legal, then that's only going to increase the opportunity for some dumb flatfoot to step on his richard and lose qualified immunity in a civil lawsuit. I'm sure the word is going to spread about that, too.
The police have an opportunity to go forward, but I suspect they will once again be on the wrong side of history.
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