Law enforcment officer means they are trusted to enforce the laws, all of them, including the open carry laws. If they do not enforce open carry laws for the good people, who then is left to enforce those laws? Nobody it would seem. We talked earlier of there being nuts out there, what we did not touch on was there are also very good people who carry openly, and other people who would like to carry openly. They exist. There are many more good people than bad, so there must be many more good people who carry open, or would like to. The problem is, we have got to a point where not only do I need to worry about what civilians think of me if I legally strap on a holster and gun, I now have to worry about what a law enforcment officer thinks of me (some of them), the only person left to protect my legal right. That ain't right. I am better off carrying concealed....that way if a cop decides to point his gun at me for wearing one in the open I don't have to shoot him to defend myself. In this State and county with the prosecutor we have, I'd probably win that one...but I fear in many places the average citizen would not be allowed to protect himself from a police officer pointing a gun at him...that ain't right either.
I sometimes wonder how it got this way, where being legal could be questioned so much by so many.
Add on...Did not mean to sound so rednecky up there, I would never want anything bad to happen to any police officer or good civilian, I was just trying to point out that with the attitudes these days there could be potential disaster carrying open, that's why I always conceal mine. I certainly would never want to harm any person, especially an officer of the law, or have one shoot me which is more likely...that would a disaster that need not happen. Sorry for sounding like a dolt if that's the way it came across.
Jim