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Every place that threatens to go from any kind of licensed carry to a less restrictive mode; especially when the lower restrictions include open carry; carries cries from law enforcement that it will make their jobs harder.
At first I was baffled by this.
Now when they see someone carrying they don't have to do anything. They don't have to check if the carrier has a permit, so they don't have to stop them, they don't have to be exposed to the "danger" of talking to an armed person. They can just keep driving.
But I just realized they DO have to do more work now.
They now have to process WHAT the person with a gun is doing with it rather than just noticing they have a gun at all then "protecting and serving."
A lot of it really falls from cops being used to, and preferring, being the only ones with guns.
Remember, they fought against going from no carry to "may issue" and again when it changed from may issue to "shall issue". Now they're upset at going from shall issue to no restrictions.
It's just the same objection every time from the same people, the police lobbyists are in the same sort of broken record groove as the gun control groups.
They've snared quite a few pro-gun folks with their line of thinking.
Aside: I have a question for both groups here that's only tangentially related: If open carry is stupid, why don't you oppose it for uniformed officers?
The burr got put under my bonnet by some localities police harassing permit holders here in Florida for "brandishing" when their carry gun had been accidentally and unintentionally exposed. A holstered gun isn't brandishing, but it didn't save them from being harassed or arrested. A few were even convicted, and even if they weren't the process is a punishment in and of itself.
The state legislature made some small steps to correct this by including "brief and unintentional" verbiage in the law, but since the law doesn't define brief or unintentional, the status quo remains.
What this is leading to is Constitutional Carry and open carry in Florida. Eventually. We've got a governor who has stated he'll sign it should a miracle occur and it actually clear the first committee. That's a positive step.
I don't even want to open carry. I just want to carry more comfortably and those methods are forbidden by the sun and humidity in the summer here because the cover garments aren't near so voluminous.
Eyes crossed.
cops make their own job harder being dumbasses...panzer guy
ReplyDeleteWe finally got Open Carry here in Texas, Much to the disappointment of the gun control hate groups and the libtard media it has basically been a complete nothing burger. Now, dumbasses like Robbie the fake Mexican (Robert Francis O'Rourke, who is the Democrat running for Governor) have in their campaign ads that allowing permit-less carry and open carry is the reason for recent increases in crimes... However, if you actually look at the data... Basically none of the people committing these crimes are legally carrying under the law. In most cases it is because they are engaging in other criminal activity , or they are an illegal alien who is comitting a crime just by being here, or they are otherwise prohibited people who aren't allowed to even possess a firearm or ammunition to begin with... So basically the changes to the law didn't change anything material to the crime increases... and in fact it can generally be explained by the massive increase in illegal immigration since Biden took office and the "catch and release" "easy bail/no bail" and "no prosecution for "traditionally disadvantaged"" policies in libtard controlled countines (those in the inner parts of the major metro areas).
ReplyDeleteIf they want their jobs to be easy, I know where they can go. Pyongyang is lovely this time of year.
ReplyDelete"Aside: I have a question for both groups here that's only tangentially related: If open carry is stupid, why don't you oppose it for uniformed officers?"
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, a police officer in uniform is presumed to be armed. That being the case, a uniformed police officer gains no tactical advantage from concealed carry.
I am agnostic as to whether open carry by private citizens is tactically disadvantageous.