This is a little off the subject of home security, but it has a HUGE impact on personal security.
for those of you who don’t know what “open carry” means. It means that by law as
long as you have the proper licenses you can carry a gun as long as it is
visible. For example you can carry a pistal on a waist holster. To me, no matter what the consitution says about right to bear arms this is a very very! bad thing. How would you like to be walking through the grocery store and come across a guy who has a gun on his hip, don’t you think this would make your feel uncomfortable. Why is this neccassary, thats what i don’t understand, yes we all have rights but police carry guns, because they work in a very unfriendly envionment, I carry a gun in my job because i work security and also am in an unfriendly environment. OK, yes we have the right to protect ourselves, but i think more people who will carry guns do it just on principle because they can. I would be willing to bet money that they have no clue on what the laws are for deadly force. This puts law enforcement in a horrible position and creates an unsafe environment even more unsafe. It is also creating law problems because more than 1 police chief in my area has openly said that officers will stop you and ask for your permits. The problem this poses is that they are violating that
persons rights unless they have propable cause to make the stop. Just becuase he has a gun is not Probrable cause since he has a lawful right to do that. I work armed security and this is making officers very nervous becuase at night clubs when we know there are gang members in there we know there are guns around in cars parked in lots and driving by. Now though, we know people have the right…what then? what do we do?
They can come to us displaying a gun legally, and we know it, but its impossible to say if he will pull it out on us. It puts an impossible decision to make in the hands of armed security and police.
We all have the right to protect ourselves, but do you know the legal statutes to when you are lawfully able to use deadly force?
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