highwayheat
highwayheat
When is this garbage going to end. My wife is pissed now too. I especially love this part put forth by the state.
Curtailing the presence of handguns during routine
police-citizen encounters, id. at 131 ("If the
number of legal handguns on the streets increased
significantly, [police] officers would have no
choice but to take extra precautions before engaging
citizens, effectively treating encounters
between police and the community that now are
routine, friendly, and trusting, as high-risk stops,
which demand a much more rigid protocol and a
strategic approach.");
I may appear friendly during encounters, but i am always thinking critically. There is no such thing as "routine" encounters in law enforcement. Any encounter has the potential to spiral out of control. If I was engaged in an encounter where SHTF and an armed law abiding citizen assisted then I would shake their hand and give them a sincere thank you. It is just baffling for the reasoning to go against the citizens right for protection. People that I have had contact with that were carrying under the BS G&S requirement were very polite, presented their CCW permit, told me that they were armed and even offered to allow me to inspect their firearm. I told them just keep it holstered or where it was and everything would be fine. In addition, I even thanked those individuals for be polite and cooperative. In my eyes, the more law abiding citizens there are with CCW the better. It's the anti-gun, bleeding heart liberals that present the biggest challenge to me when it comes to trying to reason. Hopefully this can get overturned in the SCOTUS and align MD with the majority of the nation.
Curtailing the presence of handguns during routine
police-citizen encounters, id. at 131 ("If the
number of legal handguns on the streets increased
significantly, [police] officers would have no
choice but to take extra precautions before engaging
citizens, effectively treating encounters
between police and the community that now are
routine, friendly, and trusting, as high-risk stops,
which demand a much more rigid protocol and a
strategic approach.");
I may appear friendly during encounters, but i am always thinking critically. There is no such thing as "routine" encounters in law enforcement. Any encounter has the potential to spiral out of control. If I was engaged in an encounter where SHTF and an armed law abiding citizen assisted then I would shake their hand and give them a sincere thank you. It is just baffling for the reasoning to go against the citizens right for protection. People that I have had contact with that were carrying under the BS G&S requirement were very polite, presented their CCW permit, told me that they were armed and even offered to allow me to inspect their firearm. I told them just keep it holstered or where it was and everything would be fine. In addition, I even thanked those individuals for be polite and cooperative. In my eyes, the more law abiding citizens there are with CCW the better. It's the anti-gun, bleeding heart liberals that present the biggest challenge to me when it comes to trying to reason. Hopefully this can get overturned in the SCOTUS and align MD with the majority of the nation.
