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I have nothing but the utmost repsect for law enforcement officers (both my dad and my maternal grandfather are former cops), but I do think that this is kind of silly. It makes perfect sense from a tactical perspective to assume a "worst-case" scenario involving an armed and potentially-hostile subject; it's also not unreasonable to expect that anyone, hostile or not, might be armed because of, you know, that whole Second Amendment thing. Unless state law or municipal ordinances explicitly forbid all transportation of firearms by car or something (which they could, I guess, I don't know)....

Again, I respect the fact that police officers put their lives on the line every day in order to protect us, but when it comes down to it, they're just like everyone else: some of them are decent people, and some of them are... let's employ a 9-year-old-daughter-appropriate euphemism and call them "jerks." I've run into enough the latter to make me wary of official notifications that I might be a gun-toting psycho (when most of them already assume by default that I'm a drug dealer and/or car thief). I'm probably being overly sensitive, but it seems to me that "that sticker refers to the Second Amendment" might have been a slightly more reasonable answer to the questions that they'd fielded than "that sticker means that the owner of the vehicle may or may not try to shoot you." I've run into a couple of local guys who wouldn't need any more than that to use as probable cause for a vehicle search.