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Interesting thoughts from LEOs
ggb3
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I ran across this and did some reading. I thought it was some refreshing info on the perspective of LEOs. It would be great if all law enforcement thought this way. Anyway, here are some links to a couple of particular threads.
http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79136
http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74710
George
http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79136
http://forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74710
George
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I found nothing new there.
I found nothing to indicate that ANY of the Officers understood the Constitution..just the current interpretation of it.
I found nothing to comfort me insofar as coming to gather guns when a ban becomes law, for example..
I found nothing to indicate that, in the absence of CCWs, said officer would send you do the road with his blessings.
I knew some people who were nearly arrested for posession of drugs. If drugs were legal, I know many of the cops out there would talk of how they should be legal, and how it is the people who steal to finance their habit that we should be punishing. But they aren't legal, so the cops will make arrests, and feel like they have helped rid society of problems by doing so.
Cops may say that they don't think law abiding citizens owning guns is the problem, but I know of people in my state who were busted by cops for converting their AKs to fire full auto. They may talk pro-gun but when they see a chance for an arrest, whether it be for owning a machine gun, posession of marijuana, or whether it be for posession of whatever firearm they outlaw next, there is no doubt in my mind that they will arrest that person.
The cops who arrested the machine gun owner in my state may have said some pro-gun things. They may have said they were just arresting the criminal who had guns outside of the law. But that doesn't change the fact that they arrested a peaceful citizen for exercising his constitutional rights, and would arrest any other peaceful gun owner if his guns were said to be illegal. I feel that the NRA's support for the army and the police is at best misguided, and at worst a blatant threat to peaceful armed citizens.
We can say that we support law enforcement, we can say the politicians are really to blame, we can say whatever we want. But when it comes right down to it, the gun laws that are passed by the politicians are just empty words until enforced by the POLICE. I live in a small town. I know that 90%+ of the people in this town own guns. I know that the police in this town claim to be pro-gun. But I also know that when it comes right down to it, these same police will enforce whatever gun laws the elites give them to work with.
Edited for language. [;)]
George
They should arrest based on the law. They did not pass the law. Their job is to enforce it.
And such is the paradox I am speaking of. They didn't write the law. But the law is unconstitutional, and in the process of enforcing it, they are acting in a blantantly unconstitutional and unethical manner.
quote:Originally posted by dsmith
No offense to nunn, or the very few other pro-gun cops in existence but...
I knew some people who were nearly arrested for posession of drugs. If drugs were legal, I know many of the cops out there would talk of how they should be legal, and how it is the people who steal to finance their habit that we should be punishing. But they aren't legal, so the cops will make arrests, and feel like they have helped rid society of problems by doing so.
Cops may say that they don't think law abiding citizens owning guns is the problem, but I know of people in my state who were busted by cops for converting their AKs to fire full auto. They may talk pro-gun but when they see a chance for an arrest, whether it be for owning a machine gun, posession of marijuana, or whether it be for posession of whatever firearm they outlaw next, there is no doubt in my mind that they will arrest that person.
The cops who arrested the machine gun owner in my state may have said some pro-gun things. They may have said they were just arresting the criminal who had guns outside of the law. But that doesn't change the fact that they arrested a peaceful citizen for exercising his constitutional rights, and would arrest any other peaceful gun owner if his guns were said to be illegal. I feel that the NRA's support for the army and the police is at best misguided, and at worst a blatant threat to peaceful armed citizens.
We can say that we support law enforcement, we can say the politicians are really to blame, we can say whatever we want. But when it comes right down to it, the gun laws that are passed by the politicians are just empty words until enforced by the POLICE. I live in a small town. I know that 90%+ of the people in this town own guns. I know that the police in this town claim to be pro-gun. But I also know that when it comes right down to it, these same police will enforce whatever gun laws the elites give them to work with.