rickb308 wrote:Chris wrote:Baytown wrote:
It seems the younger officers are more concerned with it than the older ones.
you got that backwards. the higher your rank goes, the more anti and liberal your politics become. we have 22 year old officers who don't understand why someone wouldn't carry a gun and high ranking decrepit officers who don't think their mother shouldn't be allowed to carry.
Must be a big city/politics thing, then.
Most older officers (at least in smaller, country type departments), can remember going to school with a gun, then hunting on the way home. Especially during dove & squirrel season. No biggie for them.
http://www.leaa.org/Cops%20Versus%20Gun ... uncon.html
some of the officers i run into often west of me still carry single action revolvers ON DUTY!
it's not big city politics; it's the IACP. if i was ever a chief of police, the IACP would not be having me as a member.
i'll be sending in my CHL packet monday just to have one. i got to do the $25 and the letter, but you have no idea the resistance i got when i turned in the request for the letter. and to add to that, a chief, by law, cannot refuse to provide the letter, but DPS "has no authority to enforce that rule." so where does that leave me? i played the game and finally got my letter. i was getting ready to go to battle over it. that's how anti-gun my superiors are.
anytime i deal with a CHL holder, it's almost a relief because i have never experienced a problem with any of them. sure some of them whine about their ticket, but they don't get nearly as problematic as some. i have never disarmed a CHL holder. as far as i'm concerned, should something happen in the short time we're conducting our business, i suspect you'll be the first one i order to assist me, but from my experience with CHL holders, i doubt i'll get the opportunity to even make the request because i see a great majority of them eager to assist someone in need.
i'm glad the wilson deal in tyler worked out. i honestly think he made a bad call. that's where CHLs get dinged, but ironically, it went the other way, so good for him. he'll be remembered as a hero. i carry all the time. in my rookie days, i rarely had a gun on me, but after seeing some of the things i have seen, i don't leave the house without one. it's almost like good health insurance. you may never need it, but there's no excuse not to have it.
so as an officer, i'm happy to be joining the rest of the CHL holders. should something ever go down and i end up in an off-duty shoot or even threaten to do so, i'm not identifying myself as a police officer; i have no obligation to. i am joe citizen, the CHL holder looking out for number one.
