Olly wrote:http://www.wesh.com/news/ocala-police-officer-in-critical-condition-after-accidental-shooting-at-firearms-training/32217774
Just because you're a police officer doesn't mean you're responsible enough to handle a firearm and I don't trust anyone with MY loaded gun.
Well what happens if he fondles it or something happens during the exchange and the damn thing goes off. If he shoots himself with my pistol I'm sure I'll get fucked in that situation.
True story. About 13-14 months after I graduated a buddy was out driving around at night. He has a gun rack in between his front seats, kinda like in a cop car, that he keeps an AK and a mossberg 500 in. He gets pulled over for being a suspicious vehicle, drives a early 2000's Ford 1 ton. Cop walks up to the truck and sees the guns in the rack, pulls his sidearm and sticks it in my friend'a face. All the while yelling at him to put his hands up. He was no threat. Kid was 19 years old and this cop is threatening him to basically blow his head off because he has long arms in the truck. Completely legal in Texas. Don't remember what happened after that but I do know the cop bitched him out about it. Shit like that fuels my hatred of what cops have become. Thinking only they should have guns. Anyway I'm good friends with several cops but you never know when that trigger happy jackass is gonna be the one pulling you over.
Another story. A friend of my dads we fish with all the time got a call from one of his wife's coworkers one night. Her husband, boyfriend, whatever had best her again and she was moving out and wanted someone to go with her. He said he would, called the police and grabbed his shotgun because they didn't know what the fuck was gonna happen. They get there about the same time as the cops and he started talking to the cop. This guy, woman beater, had been know for being violent and the cop was going to go in first to escort the lady. My dads friend told the officer he had a shotgun in the trunk of the car and said he would stand back behind the car with it if the officer wanted him to. The officer said he would really appreciate if he be ready to save his ass if shit went south. That's how cops aught to react to armed citizens not treat them like scum.