Alabama Cops Still Griping About Constitutional Carry
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 8 months ago
“Of course this makes things much more difficult for our officers. It really limits the scope of the effectiveness in which we can do our jobs. If an officer needs to take a firearm from somebody, I can totally see the potential for that situation to escalate if the person isn’t wanting to and thinks that the officer doesn’t have a right to do that,” said Hanceville Police Chief Bob Long.
But at least someone makes some sense of this.
David Nunn, retired law enforcement officer and General Manager of Cullman Shooting Sports, says that the change in the law should result in little-to-no change in an officers day to day operations.
“Any officer worth his salt should already be treating every individual they come in contact with as if they are armed. They should approach people with courtesy and respect, but with the idea they are in possession of a weapon of some kind also.”
Cullman Police Chief Kenny Culpepper agrees for the most part, but says an important tool has been taken away from officers.
“Things shouldn’t look that much different as far as how officers conduct themselves, we are trained to be prepared for that worst case situation, although permits were a useful tool that we could use to make sure the guys that didn’t need to have firearms didn’t have them, and now we don’t have that.”
Oh blah, blah, blah, prattle and blather and drivel.
If someone is breaking the law, then arrest and disarm them. If they’re not, whether they’re carrying a weapon is none of your business because it’s not against the law to carry without a permit now. Whether they filled out Form 4473 or bought it in a person-to-person transfer is also none of your business.
See how easily I solved that problem for you?
As for the Alabama cops who are still moaning about this, here’s my message: go pound sand.
And what else would I expect to read at Police1 except blather like this.
On March 17, 2022 at 10:39 pm, Longbow said:
” …a useful tool that we could use to make sure the guys that didn’t need to have firearms didn’t have them, and now we don’t have that.”
You see? Johnny Law is a superior being and he’ll decide what you NEED and what you don’t NEED. If he comes within six feet of you, then as far as he is concerned, you don’t “Need to…”.