Ryder
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cropcirclewalker - "The local police in the town 8 miles from where I live know me and we wave at each other. Those guys would not run me in on a "weapons charge"."
I live in that place too! I'm even on smiley speaking terms with them. But trust them to walk my dog? Pfff, forget it.
These small towns are not exactly overflowing with evil. These cops have seen their co-workers go unemployed due to lack of work and funding. Keeping a job means looking busy. Quantity not quality is the way of our times. Justice is a huge beaurocratic industry stocked full of little Hitlers who would love to fry your freedom in their ovens. We the people are their only source of income and job security. They aren't going to start selling brownies and holding dances.
It is said that money is the root of all evil. I don't think there can ever be a good faith attempt at stopping the oppression of weapons owners without some alternate form of compensation. Around here it's called a permit and the price of freedom has never been cheaper. I detest using this $ystem to protect myself from the rainbow of evil but I'm just not dumb enough to tempt them twice since my run-in makes yours look like a trip to Disneyland.
There's a tendency for people (cops or otherwise) to take the path of least resistance. Not that they are lazy but when it comes to police looking productive it is undeniably less risky on many levels to roust an honest non-violent person than it is to go after someone who is not. That's just a fact of human nature and it and will never go away with any amount of legislation.
I live in that place too! I'm even on smiley speaking terms with them. But trust them to walk my dog? Pfff, forget it.
These small towns are not exactly overflowing with evil. These cops have seen their co-workers go unemployed due to lack of work and funding. Keeping a job means looking busy. Quantity not quality is the way of our times. Justice is a huge beaurocratic industry stocked full of little Hitlers who would love to fry your freedom in their ovens. We the people are their only source of income and job security. They aren't going to start selling brownies and holding dances.
It is said that money is the root of all evil. I don't think there can ever be a good faith attempt at stopping the oppression of weapons owners without some alternate form of compensation. Around here it's called a permit and the price of freedom has never been cheaper. I detest using this $ystem to protect myself from the rainbow of evil but I'm just not dumb enough to tempt them twice since my run-in makes yours look like a trip to Disneyland.
There's a tendency for people (cops or otherwise) to take the path of least resistance. Not that they are lazy but when it comes to police looking productive it is undeniably less risky on many levels to roust an honest non-violent person than it is to go after someone who is not. That's just a fact of human nature and it and will never go away with any amount of legislation.