Go Ask a Cop What He or She Thinks About Encountering Somone with a Gun Stuck in Their Waist Band
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 10 months ago
Gov. DeSantis just signed a bill that allows people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, making Florida the 26th state to allow permitless carry. We spoke to Florida @SheriffMina who said this won’t make his state safer — in fact, just the opposite. https://t.co/ZfmG8sXOCm pic.twitter.com/fW0Ap7eqrF
— The Problem With Jon Stewart (@TheProblem) April 3, 2023
I won’t ask a copy what he thinks because it doesn’t matter what he thinks. He doesn’t determine my rights.
As for Jon Stewart (do you see the look of unction on his face?), he’s just a court jester wearing funny hats. He’s not the serious person he wants to be. It’s amusing, though, how easily alleged progressives flip to become totalitarians. That’s because in fact they are totalitarians.
The children of hippies believe in the state as god because their parents believed in nothing.
Cry all you want, it’s now the law in Florida. And open carry will happen eventually, so cops won’t have to wonder if there’s a gun stuck in the waist band for open carriers. For everybody else, they should assume people are carrying.
That’s easy enough. I’m glad I could be of help.
On April 4, 2023 at 10:45 am, ragman said:
I have had a Florida concealed permit since they became available in 1987. The only ones said the same thing back then. They are simply costumed fools that confirm that they are also idiots when they open their pie holes.
On April 4, 2023 at 12:56 pm, PGF said:
Police opinion means less than nothing to me. I might do the opposite just because of their opinion. Anybody who wants to control free people should be ignored.
On April 4, 2023 at 1:09 pm, Grunt said:
That doggone Constitution thing again!
On April 4, 2023 at 2:21 pm, Matt said:
If you aren’t doing stupid things with a firearm in public, you generally don’t attract anyone’s attention. At all. Most people are oblivious to who and what is in their surroundings.
It’s basically a non-issue in Texas and it’s soon to be a non-issue in Florida. It’s the same nonsense spouted when concealed carry permits became a thing.
On April 4, 2023 at 6:11 pm, TheAlaskan said:
Been that way, like forever, up here in Alaska. And blood is not running in the streets, or bush, if you will.
It is assumed that everyone is armed, 24/7. I am. We are a polite people.
What a moronic fool, that cop.
On April 4, 2023 at 10:44 pm, Chris Mallory said:
Open carry has been a protected right in the Kentucky Constitution since we became a state. The Kentucky version of the 2nd Amendment does give the legislature the authority to regulate concealed carry. On the principle that honest men bear arms openly, only highwaymen and road agents conceal their weapons. Of course we are now “Constitutional Carry” with no permit needed for either carry option. Quite a few do still open carry, both men and women. Most don’t notice, I do scan beltlines out of habit.
On April 5, 2023 at 7:07 am, Latigo Morgan said:
I’ve always lived in open carry states, so seeing someone OC doesn’t really surprise me. I used to only OC, but as I got older, I figured surprise would be more my style if I find myself in a “social” situation. I’m still highly aware of anyone on my carry side and avoid allowing folks get too close to it.
The only time anyone ever gave me the side-eye when I was open carrying was when I was walking out of a grocery store with a 7.5″ Ruger Super Blackhawk on my hip and a Wells Fargo armored car guard delivering bags of money was walking in. Even then, it was just a wide-eyed brief look, as he was surprised. There’s no way I was going to leave it in the open top Jeep CJ-5 while I went into the store.
Other than that one time, the only thing OC has done for me was allow me to talk to new people who were interested in what I was carrying.
On April 5, 2023 at 11:38 am, Frank Clarke said:
@ragman:
Except for Grady Judd, you mean ;-)
Grady Judd is the Sheriff of Polk County (Lakeland, Frostproof, Winter Haven) and he’s not shy about warning potential hooligans that Polk is a bad place to misbehave because, he notes, “lots of us have guns and we know how to use them”.
I wish he were MY sheriff instead of that squish, Gualtieri.
On April 5, 2023 at 1:16 pm, ragman said:
Good point about Sheriff Judd. I was referring to the reaction in Dade County where I was living.