What would you do?

[Zach S]

Do you get all puckery about open carry as well?
Mere presence of a baton isn't a threat, why not extend the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a preventative planned revelation or that it was just uncomfortable in that pocket and needed to be moved.

Nope. An openly carried, holstered handgun, doesn't bother me at all. Drawing the handgun as you walked by me would make me a little uneasy though...

If I'm reading the post right, baton guy ended up putting his baton back in the same pocket he got it out of to begin with.

 

[beatledog7]

A lot of people technically violate laws regularly without harming anyone or violating anyone's rights.

To many people, the no harm concept should be the basis for deciding whether a law is a good law. Maybe there's something to that.

 

[bk42261]

So most of you think that potentially commiting a felony is fine, as long as it's for "personal defense".

 

[Trunk Monkey]

So most of you think that potentially commiting a felony is fine, as long as it's for "personal defense".

What I think is, as long as he's not hurting anyone else it's none of my business.

 

[bigfatdave]

So most of you think that potentially commiting a felony is fine, as long as it's for "personal defense".

show me a victim, and I might consider that it is a "felony"

Just because the government doesn't understand what a real crime is doesn't mean you have to play along.
Or have you never broken any law accidentally or on purpose?
And can you explain why mere possession of a baton is a crime, in logical and reasonable terms?

 

[isaac.eck]

i would have let it go. and then i would have QUIT SMOKING!!!