At the risk of being called a cop hater again.Geopagus wrote:To err is to be human....to argue this is a moot point. If an officer deems it necessary to disarm you for a justifiable reason, then please, dont give him/her a hard time. They would like to go home at the end of the day/night just like everyone else. Just because one has a CHL does not mean that they are NOT capable of violence or going off the deep end. I repeat...To err is to be human. I can tell you that officers dont just go around disarming CHL's for no good reason. From my own limited knowledge and experience, the vast majority of the time, CHL holders receive the benefit of the doubt.
We don't ask the LEO to disarm himself when he comes in contact with with us. We have no reason to believe that they are any less likely to shoot us than we CHL holders are to shoot them. Read the paper, LEOs becoming unnecessarily violent is is almost a daily event. Our background Investigation is the same as theirs.
Admitedly we don't always know whats going on in an officers mind, there may have been some kind of violent incident moments before with an automobile simular to one that he stopped. I don't suggest that we argue or make a big deal out of it while we are stopped., but complaining about it after the fact is certainly within reason. My concern about it is that removing a handgun from its holster and handing it to a stranger who knows nothing about it is an exposure to risk. I have seen some officers at the range that I go to, and the gun handling that I've noticed tends to be sloppy compared to most of the regulars I've noticed, and often they don't react positively to constructive critisism, particularly at a stop. If a cop shoots himself with my gun, it isn't going to pleasant experiance for him or I.