I heard about 15 min. of you guys on the Heidi Harris show (KDWN) as I was driving to work. Heidi is mostly a pro-cop apologist, but she is also a gun owner.
From what I heard, she played Devil's Advocate addressing why you guys are out there to provoke cops and get attention by open-carrying. I heard Tim relate his experience on the Strip, being held at gunpoint and having a bunch of his rights violated. Heidi pretty much came from the cop-point-of-view: Why do you have to exercise your rights in a way that makes others uncomfortable?
The idea of open-carrying, besides the prohibitive cost for many in getting CCWs or coming from out-of-state with a CCW Nevada won't honor, is not to cause people and cops discomfort, fear, or any other negative emotion; it is to defend ourselves, families, friends, and others in need (maybe even cops) and to get to a point where we are left alone and not confronted by cops when we aren't doing anything unlawful.
Heidi asked if a cop seeing someone walking along a public sidewalk open-carrying ought not to be stopped by the cops and questioned just in case the OCer might actually be a bad guy, who is on his way to shoot up a casino. First, I doubt that some bad guy intent on doing harm is going to OC; or if he is, when asked what he is doing OCing is going to tell the cop :"I'm on my way to shoot up a casino."
The general premise I think we OCers would mostly agree to re cops contacting us for "investigation" is this: If I am in public OCing, not engaging in unlawful activity, leave me alone.
Heidi also brought up a scenario where she saw a man holding a woman by the arm and apparently about to become more aggressive with her; Heidi called the cops because she was concerned for the woman's safety. She asked about an actual scenario where a "Chinese woman" had called in a MWAG on David when he was OCing because she was concerned for public safety and questioned whether it was not reasonable in both situations to have the cops involved in the interest of safety.
I would answer, "No, Heidi. It would not be reasonable to call the police in both situations. Your witnessing a man holding a woman by the arm (battery?), speaking to her in an animated, aggressive manner (assault?) which when taking the totality of the circumstances into mind could lead a reasonable person viewing the same situation to believe a crime was being committed or about to be committed and that the police should be called to check on the woman's welfare, gave rise to probable cause.
In David's case, he was not engaging in any unlawful conduct, not engaging anyone else in an offensive or aggressive manner, not threatening anyone with his gun. David was merely in public engaged in lawful activity, OCing, and going peaceably about his business.
There were no existing facts to give rise to probable cause for David to be stopped and questioned by police. While the "Chinese woman" may have had a personal discomfort seeing David OCing, personal discomfort at witnessing lawful activity doesn't give rise to probable cause to believe a crime is being committed or about to be committed by someone who is merely walking on a public sidewalk. It would not be reasonable, nor rise to the level of probable cause, for police to engage David at all."