WI: Wisconsin Gun Owners (WGO) is trouble

[44Brent]

ALERT - MEMBERS OF WGO SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS

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TERROR ALERT!

The JBTs (aka "Jack Booted Thugs") have confiscated the membership list of WGO and all subversive individuals who have contributed money to this organization. The JBT's have determined that anyone who is a member of this organization either owns a gun, or is likely to own a gun.

Members of this subversive group are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps. It is recommended that all members burn their membership cards and flee to the hills!

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[Coronach]

Many CCW laws provide this info to the police. Once the novelty wears off things tend to go a little more smoothly than that. We get CCW info with DL and plate queries, too, and I cannot think of a single agency around here who has a policy of pulling drivers out at gunpoint, absent evidence that would otherwise warrant a felony traffic stop.

I'll agree with you, though, that the chief is talking out of an orifice other than his mouth.

Mike

 

[Janitor]

The draft bill will give cops who pull you over an instant alert that
you are a permit holder and may be armed. The Appleton, Wisconsin police chief
has already said that he will inform his officers to "draw their weapons" on
all permit holders detained during routine traffic stops.

Wouldn't that sort of activity fall under excessive force?

And if you were one of those ultra afraid, super cautious WI LEOs - shouldn't you just point your gun at every driver you stop? I mean - you know which good guys are carrying - how do you know which bad guys are? Better cover everyone just to be safe.

In fact - they should start sending out patrol cars in pairs, so backup is already there. I mean ... what if they stop a CCW holder or something!
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[Igloodude]

Aren't there fairly substantial statistics showing that CCW holders are significantly less inclined to criminality than the general population? In that vein, an officer looking up the ID and finding his motorist to be a CCW holder could actually rest easier (well, slightly, anyway) instead of being prepared for a violent encounter...

 

[Coronach]

Wouldn't that sort of activity fall under excessive force?

And if you were one of those ultra afraid, super cautious WI LEOs - shouldn't you just point your gun at every driver you stop? I mean - you know which good guys are carrying - how do you know which bad guys are? Better cover everyone just to be safe.

In fact - they should start sending out patrol cars in pairs, so backup is already there. I mean ... what if they stop a CCW holder or something!

Common sense, sir, is never something that is all that common in people who go high in government, be it politicians, bureaucrats, or police chiefs. You're absolutely right, which is why things tend to rapidly calm down once the novelty wears off.

Mike