His safety is more important than yours. Oh no, here it comes. How many times have regular law abiding citizens on a traffic stops had to shoot it out with a cop to protect themselves, hmm. Doesn't seem you are in to much danger of having to use your firearm against him. You guys won't like what I have to say about this. I think you need to quit whining and get over it!! If an officer pulls me over and I tell him I have a CCW and he disarms me until the traffic stop is over for "safety" reasons. WHO GIVES A FLYING FLIP!! I will get it back, everything will be alright, life will go on, I'll get a starbucks on the way home. But, But, But the cop should have trusted me...Why...I don't trust you...I don't trust anyone, it's him that is in the worse situation pulling over a car having no idea what he might be getting into, I'll be the bigger man for a few minutes and let him feel safer while he checks things out. Oh no my freedom to carry, for him not to search me whatever whatever whatever, cry me a river. You will be alright. When cops start pulling people over and after finding out they are a CCW holder, and have a clean record, and then turn around and shoot them for no reason, Ok then we might have to start worrying. I think you will be alright except for maybe some finger prints on your weapon. Told you you wouldn't like my take on it.
Speeding does NOT automatically make you a Violent offender.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say, why do people say they are law abiding, then in the same sentence mention getting stopped in a traffic stop? Speeding, not obeying signals, stop lights, etc are all violations of the law. If you're breaking these, you are not law abiding.
My attitude is, if I'm carrying my ccw, I'm obeying the traffic laws in the first place. Now that doesn't guarantee I won't get stopped for something, but why are people who carry speeding in the first place?
That being said, some of those LEO attitudes frighten me as well, but I'm not in the least surprised.
Not once in my life have I ever heard that holding up traffic because you're going the speed limit is an infraction, but oh well!
melensdad, understand that what you're reading is a very very small number of LEO out of something like 700,000 across the county, from reading several of the posts take one thing out of them, that the officers want to go home at night and their safety is the first thing on their mind. It's like the people that ask do I look like a criminal? well yeah you do since criminal look like everybody else.
Just like any other profession there are cops that are legends in their own mind and a**holes. As far as #22 he's no different than any other anti.
The large majority of LEO don't have a problem with ccw.
Finally, do NOT volunteer ANY information not legally required or asked of you. EVER! You can see why.
Did...did you just Godwin the whole thread?
Episcopus, do you know of any court rulings on this subject? If not would you do a little research on this subject since you have easy access to law books. ( in regards to an officer requesting/taking for a short time someones gun that has a LTCH under the premise of officer safety).
I think that I should be able to disarm any officer that wants to disarm me. I am not safe if he has a gun and I don't, and why is his safety more important than anyone else's?
Did...did you just Godwin the whole thread?
His safety is more important than yours. Oh no, here it comes. How many times have regular law abiding citizens on a traffic stops had to shoot it out with a cop to protect themselves, hmm. Doesn't seem you are in to much danger of having to use your firearm against him. You guys won't like what I have to say about this. I think you need to quit whining and get over it!! If an officer pulls me over and I tell him I have a CCW and he disarms me until the traffic stop is over for "safety" reasons. WHO GIVES A FLYING FLIP!! I will get it back, everything will be alright, life will go on, I'll get a starbucks on the way home. But, But, But the cop should have trusted me...Why...I don't trust you...I don't trust anyone, it's him that is in the worse situation pulling over a car having no idea what he might be getting into, I'll be the bigger man for a few minutes and let him feel safer while he checks things out. Oh no my freedom to carry, for him not to search me whatever whatever whatever, cry me a river. You will be alright. When cops start pulling people over and after finding out they are a CCW holder, and have a clean record, and then turn around and shoot them for no reason, Ok then we might have to start worrying. I think you will be alright except for maybe some finger prints on your weapon. Told you you wouldn't like my take on it.