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Here's my take...I fully respect an officer's right to disarm me upon lawful contact if it makes him feel safer. Although I am not, and never will be an officer, I fully understand that his number one priority is to make it home safely to wife, kids, etc.

Having said that, I also BELIEVE that officers, or any of us for that matter, are more in danger of weapons we don't see or know aboutthan the CHL who notifies the officer upon contact. What about the clean cut drug dealer who is armed to the hilt but plays it cool and the officer never knows the difference? Does CHL raise such a flag that warrants disarming every contact? I think not, but the reality is, it's not my call when I'm pulled over.

With regard to the posters on the other forum, what troubles me the most is their (some of them) "I don't care..." attitude. I've seen this attitude in virtually every profession, doctors, lawyers, teachers, plumbers, etc. They nor anyone in any profession with that attitude can ever earn the respect of their peers or the public and they're too ignorant to know why, so they revert to intimidation and fear tactics as they interact with others. So, the guy that said that the 2nd amendment is outdated is just as likely to disagree with me on the weather and be a jerk about it because he sees himself as inherently more important than anybody else.

Thank God that most people of this caliber almost always self select themsleves out of positions of true authority where they could really muddy the water.