On the other hand I don't ever see this happening. First, I doubt Johnny Law would like regular people walking around with a gun and a badge. Second, they'd have to setup a CCW authentication hotline.
I've been thinking the same thing, although I don't rule anything out based on some really stupid stuff I've heard of lawmaking assemblies pulling off. Passing a law against sleeping in church or against a chicken laying an egg between 8pm and 8am comes to mind.
As far as officers liking or not liking something, it's not for them to like or dislike. They don't make the law. They just enforce it. As for that authentication hotline, I'm wondering if they don't already have one, why not. They have the database for driver's licenses.
Another thing I'm seeing is everybody tends to forget that the cops work for us and not the other way around. Sure we should appreciate it that they do. But a cop has to remember he's a servant of the people too. That's two things I learned when I was a kid. If that's true, badges or no badges, the cops and the private citizens really really really need to be on the same page about a good many issues and CCW and citizen's arrest are two of those issues.
My thoughts are that if a LEO is patting you down with the knowledge that you already have a firearm and he finds a phony badge he's going to thinking that you're one of these fellas who likes to dress up as cops and pull people over or break into thier homes that we read about so much lately.
As the laws stand right now, I'd say that impression is about right. That's why I'd be against anybody carrying a badge not legally mandated. If it became legally mandated, the cops and the CCWing citizens might be closer to being on the same page about this train of thought. As it stands, as I understand it, if an officer finds you're packing it's up to his discretion whether or not to question, search, detain, and possibly even confiscate your weapon until you prove legality in court. Of course, I'm only talking about in Georgia here because I really don't know enough about other states (and appearantly neither do a lot of other people judging from the number of threads on that topic). If a state gov't issued CCW badge were mandated, the cops would have to be in on it from several angles so they'd have a good knowledge of the deal.
It is interesting though that predominately the only reasons given against a badge is juvenile name calling or being afraid of what "real" gunners would think of you and then there's the obligatory impersonating a police officer fallacy
I noticed that too. A responsible citizen isn't going to use legally mandated stuff- including a badge which is as yet a hypothetical- to impersonate a police officer. That same responsible citizen isn't going to buy a mall-ninja-special badge.
My son wants these made-to-order badges.
The little snot-nosed punk wants one to say "certified B
B inspector" the other to state the similar intent about thongs. Where does he get these notions.
There's some guys around here... I ran into one of them a while back... in a gun shop, no less... they wear black t-shirts with white lettering that said "FBI"... under that it said "Female Body Inspector". Those guys look really stupid, but they're also carrying really bad attitudes. Makes me glad I'm not usually around them.
I screamed at the top of my lungs that I lived there and was armed. You never know what may happen.
